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For privacy-conscious individuals, online marketplace participants, and professionals requiring secondary communication channels.
Known forBurner: Second Phone Number
Burner: Second Phone NumberFor privacy-conscious individuals, online marketplace participants, and professionals requiring secondary communication channels.
Burner: Second Phone NumberProviding privacy-focused communication tools for users seeking to manage digital boundaries and reduce unwanted contact.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 2Last updated
Burner: Second Phone Number
v7.8.0
2mo ago
Primary focus
Privacy and communication utility apps
Scale
indie
Target audience
Privacy-conscious individuals, online marketplace participants, and professionals requiring secondary communication channels.
Released 12 updates across 2 apps in the last 6 months, indicating a high-frequency maintenance and development cycle.
2 apps analysed
2nd Phone Number Line for Anonymous Texting, Calling, and Picture Messages
Color-coded inboxes increase session duration for power users
Single-market publisher — every app ships only to United States.
Based on 1 of 2 apps with localized market data — more coverage rolling in as scans complete · last scanned .
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Positive apps
0
Neutral / mixed
1
Negative apps
15/100
Avg sentiment score
Hushed maintains a direct feature-for-feature overlap in the virtual burner number niche with a high release cadence of 6 updates in the last six months.
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
Google Voice is a massive, high-velocity competitor that leverages ecosystem integration to provide a permanent secondary number solution.
Text Free maintains a long-standing presence in the communication space with a focus on simple, reliable messaging.
Talkatone focuses on high-quality VoIP performance over WiFi, serving as a strong alternative for users prioritizing connectivity over anonymity.
TextNow dominates the ad-supported communication space, offering a free, permanent number model that challenges Burner's subscription revenue.
Getcontact operates in the phone utility space by providing caller identification and spam protection at a massive scale.
While not a burner number app, it occupies the same 'phone utility' space by solving the spam problem that drives users to Burner.
Rapidly emerging in the utility space with high release velocity, signaling an aggressive push for market share.
A newer entrant showing strong update activity and high user engagement in the privacy utility category.
