Moving from Twilio to SMS Mobile App
Twilio sends through numbers it leases and bills per segment. With SMS Mobile App the message leaves from your own SIM, on your own number, and your carrier bills you for it.
What stays behind
Your Twilio number, your API integration and any OTP flow stay behind: other software cannot send through SMS Mobile App. Recipients will also see a different number, so tell them. Foreign destinations stay on Twilio.
Steps
- Put your list in a CSV file. Use whatever already holds the numbers, then follow Prepare a CSV recipient file.
- Check the numbers against what we accept. Only ordinary Pakistani mobile numbers in the
030–036ranges go through. Everything else is refused with the reason, and there is no override. - Install the app on the phone that will send. It is a signed APK, not a Google Play app: Install the Android app, and compare the SHA-256 before you open the file.
- Sign in and register that phone. Sign in with Google, register the phone, then grant its Android permissions.
- Create a small job first. Create a job from the CSV with a few numbers of your own, read the review screen, then release it.
- Watch what happens, then send the rest. Monitor the job. A SIM starts at 150 messages a day and at most 30 an hour, so plan a long list across days (limits).
What SMS Mobile App will not do
- Pakistani mobile numbers only. Foreign numbers, landlines and short codes are refused.
- Each SIM has daily and hourly caps. A SIM starts at 150 messages a day and can rise to 400 as delivery reports come back. Its hourly cap is a fifth of that, and a job waits at least 30 seconds between sends. The Free plan stops at 100 messages a month.
- No HTTP API. Other software cannot send through it, so OTP codes and automated sends from your own system are not available.
- Your SIM and carrier decide the rest. Whether a message arrives depends on them, and their SMS rate is yours to pay on top of any plan.
The facts, with their dates
Last checked 7 November 2026. Check Twilio's own page
What Twilio charges
| Plan or rate | Price | Country | Their note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMS outbound | $0.4734 a message | Pakistan | Per segment, international numbers; carrier fees may apply | Their page, 7 November 2026 |
| International number | $1.15 a month | Not tied to a country | Starting at; Twilio leased | Their page, 7 November 2026 |
Side by side
| What you might need | Twilio | SMS Mobile App |
|---|---|---|
| Sends from your own SIM | No (their page) | Yes |
| An Android phone is the sender | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Web dashboard | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| HTTP API for your own software | Yes (their page) | No |
| Receives replies | Not stated on the pages we checked | No |
| Several phones on one account | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Dual-SIM rotation | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Send-rate control | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Scheduled sending | Yes (their page) | Partly |
| Delivery reports | Yes (their page) | Yes |
| Spreadsheet recipient import | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Message templates | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Open source | Not stated on the pages we checked | No |
| Free tier | Partly. Start for free; the page prices every message (their page) | Yes |
| No per-message platform fee | No (their page) | Yes |
The comparison page sets out who each one suits better.