Email2Phone

Email2Phone converts critical emails into phone calls or SMS alerts for IT administrators, MSPs, facilities managers, and teams needing urgent notifications. It works with any system that can send email, such as Nagios, Zabbix, PRTG, or monitoring tools, and requires no app installation or API integration. The service reads messages aloud on any phone in any country, allowing users to press 1 to hear, 8 to save, 7 to delete, or 5 to record a spoken reply.

Plans start at $10 per month for the Basic plan, which includes 40 credits per month. Each credit buys up to a minute of call time or one text to a US or Canadian phone. Additional credits cost $0.25 each for Basic, $0.20 for Advanced, and $0.15 for Premium, with no setup fee or contract required. A 30-day free trial is available to start using the service.

The Basic plan is designed for one admin or one facility with up to approximately 40 alert calls per month. The Advanced plan targets IT teams or MSPs managing several systems and phones with 500 credits per month. The Premium plan supports multi-site operations and team-wide announcements with 3000 credits per month, each plan offering the same core email-to-phone call service.

Users can contact Email2Phone by phone at 888-364-5101 or via fax at 888-794-3554. The business is located at 400 S 4th St Ste 410 PMB 55356, Minneapolis, MN 55415-1419, USA, and operates under AcrossCommunications Inc. Dial-in service numbers are also provided for USA, Canada, and the UK for retrieving emails.

The service is particularly useful for IT administrators and MSPs monitoring tools like Nagios, Zabbix, PRTG, and Checkmk to wake up on-call admins for critical and down alerts. Facilities, labs, and cold storage use it for temperature sensors, freezer monitors, and alarm panels to prevent inventory loss. Schools, clinics, and delivery teams also use it for urgent announcements like closures or schedule changes.

Multiple reviewers praise the service for being reliable, intuitive, and having responsive customer support. Users highlight that the integration process is seamless and the features are top-notch, significantly improving communication efficiency. The platform is described as user-friendly and comprehensive, making it a game-changer for efficient communication workflows.

Email2Phone offers a dial-in service to replay messages for free on every plan, which is beneficial for drivers, field staff, and visually impaired users. The service also allows recording a spoken reply, ensuring that acknowledgements are required and messages are not missed. This feature helps teams that need everyone told at once with the same spoken announcement.

The service handles bursts of up to 80 emails arriving at once as a single call rather than eighty separate calls. It works on mobile, landline, or VoIP phones in any country without needing to install anything. The platform also provides automatic retries if a call is not acknowledged, calling back at 5, 15, 30, and 60 minutes.

Email2Phone replaced traditional carrier email-to-text gateways that have been shut down or failing, such as AT&T's, T-Mobile's, and Verizon's vtext.com which closes March 31, 2027. The service delivers alerts to phones in any country, including those outside the US and Canada, with varying credit costs based on the destination.

The service is built for alerts that cannot be missed, such as server alerts, alarm notifications, temperature warnings, and urgent client messages. It ensures that critical emails are converted into phone calls that read the message aloud, preventing users from missing important information while away from a screen.

The platform includes filters to match From, To, CC, Subject, or Body, allowing users to send CRITICAL alerts to on-call phones and ALARM alerts to facilities. Quiet hours can be set per phone, and the service supports multiple phone numbers and automatic retries to ensure delivery.

The official website of Email2Phone is email2phone.net.

On Trustburn, Email2Phone has a rating of 4.1 out of 5 based on 10 reviews.