If your phone is offline when you try to send a text message using our API, it will simply be queued for the next time your phone comes online and syncs. Now, as you may be thinking, having your phone connected to WiFi or data all the time isn’t really possible.

Have Pushbullet signed in with SMS permissions granted.

Connected to WiFi or have data coverage.

Let’s go through how things work.įirst, to send text messages your phone must be: Our new API makes a lot of effort to ensure your messages get sent ASAP. Additionally, Pushbullet Pro is required to send more than 100 messages per month through Pushbullet. If you don’t, be aware that sending text messages using our API costs the same as sending texts yourself by hand. Important notes: since the messages come from your own phone, they are covered by your phone plan with your carrier. Even better, any replies will go right to your phone as expected.Īdditionally, you can send as many text messages as you want without needing to worry about paying per message like you would for services like Twilio. This means if the recipients have your contact info, they’ll know you sent them the message.

The messages sent using our API come from your own phone and from that phone’s phone number. The new SMS API calls we’ve added make it easy to programmatically send text messages, group messages, and even picture messages. The documentation for our new SMS API calls is right here! Today we’re making a huge improvement to Pushbullet’s public API by adding support for reliably sending SMS and MMS messages (including picture messages)!

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