Leave the Android phone with your second SIM in your bag. Its calls ring on your iPhone and its texts land there, codes included. Bluetooth only, end-to-end encrypted, no server in between.
The other phone stays in the bag. The call is on your iPhone.
Your work line, your old number, the SIM from back home. Carrying a second phone all day gets old fast.
The bank, the delivery app, the login screen: the six digits always go to the phone that's not in your hand.
Call forwarding can ring you, but you can't call back from that number, and the texts stay behind.
iTell hands every incoming call to the iPhone's own call screen. Answer with a swipe, use the keypad, mute, switch to speaker, then hang up the way you always do.
All your texts arrive on the iPhone with their full history. When a one-time code comes in, you read it right there, without opening the bag. It only crosses the encrypted link between your two phones; no server ever sees it.
Names, numbers and photos from the Android phone show up on the iPhone, so calls and texts never arrive as bare numbers. They stay inside iTell and never mix into your iPhone's own contacts.
If the Android phone holds two SIMs, choose which one to call or text from, every time or once per conversation. iTell remembers what you picked.
The Android phone never leaves your bag. You'll forget it's there.
Your work line rings. You answer on the iPhone, the other phone stays in the bag.
The bank sends a code. It shows up on the iPhone in your hand; the bag stays zipped.
Texts from both numbers sit in one place, in your own language.
You call the restaurant from your second SIM, without looking for the other phone.
There are other ways to deal with a second number. Here's an honest look.
| Carry both phones | Call forwarding | SMS forwarding apps | iTell | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Answer calls to your second number | ||||
| Call out from your second number | ||||
| Texts and one-time codes | ||||
| Works without Wi-Fi or mobile data | ||||
| No server reads your messages | ||||
| Only one phone in your hand |
Your calls and texts travel from one phone to the other over an encrypted Bluetooth link. They never reach our servers, because there's no server in the path at all.
No call centre, no scripts. The people who reply to your ticket are the people who wrote the code and tested it on real phones.
Bluetooth, audio and encryption. Lives in the lab with a drawer full of phones.
Sweats the pixels in seven languages, right-to-left included.
Reads every ticket and every log you choose to send.
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Two apps, one QR code, about five minutes. After that it just runs.
See how it worksNo. Calls and texts come from the SIM in the Android phone. Your iPhone can have its own SIM too, and both keep working.
Within Bluetooth range: in your bag, your pocket or the same room. About 10 metres works well; walls shorten it.
Not for calls and texts. The phones talk over Bluetooth. You only need the internet to sign in and to check your license now and then.
Bluetooth LE is very light. Most people charge the bag phone overnight like any other phone.
Any phone with Android 13 or later can mirror texts, contacts and call alerts. Call audio depends on the phone; iTell checks yours and picks the best method. See the tested list on our About page.
The iPhone shows a small strip saying the other phone is out of reach and reconnects by itself as soon as it's back.
Create an account, install both apps, pair them once. That's the whole setup.
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