In these times we live in, it is important that we are able to take care of things on the go, including faxing. The advancements in online communications and the popularity of smartphones have changed the way we do businesses, and companies could be left behind in just a blink of an eye.

Seeing this trend, some email faxing services have started offering customers the possibility to fax from a smartphone via free apps that work along with your fax account.  Thanks to these mobile apps we can send and receive faxes without having to stay at the office.

Using a Smartphone for Faxing

An online fax service allows us to receive fax through email and is 100% compatible with fax machines.  Smartphones on the other hand act as handheld computers that we can take anywhere.  By putting these two tools together we have practically a mobile fax machine with us at all times.

Basic mobile fax options allow you to receive mobile notifications instantly in the form of text messages, but using an iPhone, Blackberry or Android phone we can do more things such as creating and composing a fax (by snapping a picture of the document or by typing the message), receive faxes and manage our account without having to use a browser.

Services Offering Mobile Fax Services

So far these are the services that offer free mobile fax options for their users.

eFax. With eFax you can create and send faxes thanks to its mobile app; it uses the camera of the phone to take a picture of a document and then it goes through an enhancer to ensure maximum readability on the other end. The app integrates with your contact book, allows you to search and view faxes in your inbox, let your forward the fax as fax or as an email and allows you to create customized cover sheets.

Ringcentral Fax.  The app developed by this company can integrate with any regular fax plan or with a Ringcentral Mobile plan. This app doesn’t allow you to create fax using a camera, but it offers a great interface to search, view and forward Internet fax. Additionally it offers VoIP integration with the Mobile plan.

MyFax.  Myfax’s application has recently added support to compose and send faxes from a mobile device, making it a complete solution to fax on the go. It can pull fax numbers from your Contact Book, allows you to select from different cover pages, and to send the fax uses the camera or allows you to type a message. You can send up to 8 pages per fax, and it offers international fax at the same rate of local fax.