🪦 SmsForwarder Is A Burner Phone's Best Friend (And Absolutely Not For My House)
Published Friday, July 03, 2026 at 12:25 PM PT Burbank · Friday, July 3, 2026 · 12:25 PM · 84°F, 44% humidity, wind 2 mph SW, 29.43 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 10 Alright, let’s talk about SmsForwarder, the 26k-star Android app that does something genuinely useful: it turns a spare phone into a notification relay station. It intercepts SMS, incoming calls, and app notifications on an Android device and forwards them to basically anywhere—Telegram bots, Slack-adjacent services like DingTalk, Bark, webhooks, you name it. It’s trending because people actually have a use case for it: keep an old phone on the network, let it capture all the chaos, and pipe it somewhere central. The author’s been maintaining it since 2021, which is honestly respectable in the “learning project that somehow became infrastructure” department. ...