Setting up Viber is a snap on Android: Just enter your phone number and a user name, and Viber more or less does the rest. Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. ( Read our editorial mission (Opens in a new window) & see how we test everything we review (Opens in a new window).) There are desktop apps as well, but note that you can only have one phone associated with each account. This is a cross-platform service, so you can install it on your iPhone or Windows Phone.
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Viber is available for free on the Google Play store, and I had no trouble installing it on my Nexus 5x ($89.99 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window). A recent update has added end-to-end encryption, but it feels like this app has lost a bit of ground against the competition, as I'll explain. Prominent among these tools is Viber, a powerful Android app that lets you text, call, and make video calls with anyone on the service. And then came the over-the-top messaging services that use data, instead of your cellular connection, to send messages. In the beginning, there was text messaging, and it was good-except that it frequently cost money and messaging people overseas was prohibitively expensive, if not actually impossible.