Create and Use Disposable Phone Numbers on Your iPhone With Burner

Posted by Lisa Caplan on August 16th, 2012
iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad

While sordid and illicit motives spring to mind when we think of reasons for having a burner cell, the truth is there are dozens of legitimate uses for hiding your iPhone’s real number. Case in point, we all deal with tons of developers and publishers here and sometimes they want to actually speak - like on a telephone, rather than email, IM, Skype, or FaceTime. It’s also useful to have a dedicated and private number  if you are hosting a public event, selling something, or meeting people on the Internet. Whatever your motivation. Burner - Disposable Phone Numbers offers a paid service for iPhone owners that replicates the toss-away cellular phones made famous in every gangster movie and crime TV show of the past several decades.

The app has a one time purchase price, and then you buy burners using credits purchased in-app, the virtual equivalent of disposal cell phones. They add a layer of privacy to your call, displaying whatever caller ID name you want and a useable phone number on the other end. Burners work for texts too. A one-week mini burner good for 20 calls and 60 texts costs $1.99 while $4.99 will get you two months with 75 voice and 225 texts. There are also extension packs and you can add as many burners as you need. If you do online dating, you might want one for that, while you might want another to manage a craigslist help-wanted post.

Once a number is gone, it stays gone, leaving no traces back to you. Just play nice - the possibilities for mayhem-making with this app are endless.