OKSMS is a free open catalogue of US, UK and Canadian phone numbers for receiving verification codes from services like Instagram, Discord and Telegram, with a shared inbox other users may also see. Use it as a throwaway when a personal number would be a bad idea. Choice is thin (three countries), and the same numbers get hit by many people at once, so repeat SMS and prior use are common. Our take: 2.5/5. Workable in a pinch, thin next to the free options we rate higher.
OKSMS is free. No plans, no top-ups, no card. The trade-off is that the numbers are shared. Whoever visits the same page sees the same feed, and any service that already saw the number in a prior sign-up will treat a fresh account as a duplicate.
Free, public numbers are shared with everyone: codes can be read by other people and the same number is often already registered on popular apps. For accounts you intend to keep, a private number is the safer choice.
The OKSMS interface is a plain open directory. You land on the home page, pick one of three countries, then choose a listed number. That page shows the last incoming messages and refreshes on reload. There is no personal area, because there is no account. Anyone with the link sees the same view.
Country choice is small: the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. That covers most global services whose sign-up accepts English-speaking numbers, but leaves out everything else. No Russia, no India, no Latin America, no European Union outside the UK. If the service you want rejects those, OKSMS has no fallback.
OKSMS has nothing to pay and no account to create. Open the site, pick a country, pick a number, and the feed is right there in the browser. Ads sit around the numbers on the page, so a click near the inbox may open a redirect before the codes load.
For this review we read the live OKSMS catalogue and its country tabs, opened the shared (open) inbox pages, checked which services the site lists as popular targets (Instagram, Discord, Signal, Telegram, Google Voice), and confirmed the access model: no registration, no payment, an inbox visible to anyone on the page. We did not run buy-tests, since the service does not sell anything, and there is no private tier to test. Ads and repeat SMS in the feed were observed directly.
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OKSMS earns 2.5 out of 5 as a free SMS receiver. It works when a free US, UK or Canadian number is enough for a low-stakes sign-up and you would rather not register anywhere. Three ceilings stand out: only three countries in the catalogue, ads that get between the reader and the codes on the page, and shared numbers many people watch at once. Services like Instagram, Discord, Signal, Telegram or Google Voice may see those numbers as already used. Fine to try once. Not enough as a daily tool. As a free service it does the basic job, yet the shared-pool model means any popular service can flag the number the moment a code arrives. If you need a service that reliably passes verification on a service that matters, a paid receiver is the safer path.
OKSMS is a free web inbox for shared phone numbers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Think of it as a directory of shared virtual number pages you can open in any browser. There is no account, no card and no download. The site lists numbers, and other users may also read the verification codes that land on them. Its audience is people signing up for services like Instagram, Discord, Signal, Telegram or Google Voice who would rather not hand over their personal details.
Yes — there is no payment, card or account involved. The trade-off is that phone numbers are shared, so the whole inbox is visible to anyone with the link.
Three: the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Outside that trio, look elsewhere.
The site lists those online services as popular targets, but shared phone numbers are often flagged as already used, so a fresh sign-up may fail. Try once; do not rely on it for an account you care about.
No. There is no API, so nothing can be scripted or automated. Every action is manual, on the site.
Yes, ads sit on the pages. A click near the inbox can open a redirect before the codes load.
The feed keeps every incoming SMS visible, not just the first verification code. Handy when a service resends codes. The downside is that your code appears next to other people's messages.