Lots of apps let you sidestep iPhone SMS to send and receive text messages for free. But in most cases the apps themselves cost at least a few bucks. Enter TextPlus, a free, ad-supported app that offers unlimited texting.

With GOGII’s free application, users can send completely free text messages between each other, create and manage group conversations with as many people as they want, or opt for a one-to-one communication.

An app for the iPhone that enables you to send text messages for free? Really? Yes really! And not just for the iPhone, there’s an additional killer feature, the ability to send text messages from the iPod Touch as well!

iPod Touch users need not feel left out of the free texting bliss as TextPlus will feel right at home even without cellular access.  As long as they have a mobile phone that can receive SMS messages, they can link their number with textPlus. (A one-time verification code needs to be confirmed.) From that point forward, conversations that are initiated within textPlus will be routed to the app; regular SMS messages will continue to arrive on your mobile phone.

With Group Messaging, TextPlus allows you to send a text message to multiple recipients, and their replies will stay grouped together, making the app function in a way like a chat room.

textPlus is super simple to use too. Once installed, open it up and click the familiar compose option to select a contact (or enter any 10 digit phone number), or two or three, and start typing and texting away.

When you’re ready, hit send. Your message is conveyed over WiFi and appears as an SMS message from GOGII (60611). You can then wait for a response, or return to the conversations page to start new chats and view updates – as they happen – to existing threads.

If there were to be a downside to textPlus, it would be that your friends who aren’t using the app see an incoming message from a foreign number with your name and GOGII included, instead of a standard SMS message from you. App users might also miss the fact that their textPlus chats stay inside of the app, and don’t get included with your other SMS communications to contacts.

Realistically, however, those all might seem like small sacrifices when given the opportunity to text to any contact or number free of charge.

Since Gogii’s TextPlus app was released in June, over 800,000 users have sent northward of 80 million text messages with those daily averages also quickly going north.

Download textPlus for Free from the AppStore.   Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch.  Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later.

Carriers supported: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Alltel, US Cellular, Virgin Mobile, Nextel, Boost, CellularOne, Dobson, nTelos, Cellular South, and CellCo.

See textPlus in action:

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