Croft Pickup

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Someone on Croft Plus sent you a message, a picture, a video or a PDF that a text cannot carry. Croft Pickup is the free plan of Croft Plus on your computer. It shows what Croft people send to your phone number, in a messages list like any other. You can read it all, free, always. You cannot reply from Pickup.

You do not need Croft Plus on a phone. Your own texts still arrive on your phone as always.

How it works

  1. 1Install Croft Plus on your Windows or Linux computer. It is free, and Pickup is part of it.
  2. 2Open Croft Plus. It opens on a short setup: choose Croft Pickup. It is the free plan, and the same app covers Croft PC and the full Croft Plus.
  3. 3Type your mobile number and a friend's. The friend is someone who uses Croft Plus and has your number saved. They press Approve in the app, and we text you a link to confirm the number is yours. No codes to type. No friend on Croft Plus? A text and six digits work too.
  4. 4From then on, everything sent to your number with Croft Plus appears in your messages list, with pictures and video in the conversation. Files are kept in a folder called Croft Pickup.
Download Croft Plus for your computer

What it will and will not do

  • It is read only: you see messages and files, and you cannot reply or send. Croft PC, $12 a year, lets you reply from a computer.
  • It never opens a file by itself.
  • Only pictures, video, sound and PDF documents are kept.
  • Your number is checked by a text from your own phone, so nobody else can register it. It is checked again once a year.
  • One computer holds a number. A second computer can take it over after a day, and the first is told and can say no.
  • In a Croft-only group, a Pickup member reads the messages there but cannot answer.
  • Remove it any time. Delete my service gives the number up.

Help shows how to remove it. To reply from a computer, see Plans.