# iFax review (2026): is it worth $12.49 a month, billed yearly?

> Online fax apps and fax API, with HIPAA plans and AI fax reading

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA.

iFax is an online fax service from Amplify Ventures that began as a mobile fax app in 2008. It sends and receives faxes from iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac apps and the web, and higher plans add a shared team inbox, fax by email, OCR and AI data extraction. A fax API and fax broadcasting are priced separately.

- **Category:** Online Fax
- **Made by:** Amplify Ventures Ltd. (since 2008)
- **Website:** https://www.ifaxapp.com
- **Runs on:** Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need to receive on Basic, which sends only and has no number.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, iFax is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $12.49 per month for 200 pages, billed annually ($14.99 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of the Pro plan.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Basic | $12.49 per month for 200 pages, billed annually ($14.99 billed monthly) | Sending only, with no fax number. $149.99 a year on annual billing. |
| Plus | $24.99 per month for 500 pages, billed annually ($29.99 billed monthly) | Send and receive with one fax number, HIPAA compliant, with the iOS, Android, Windows and Mac apps. $299.99 a year. |
| Pro | $33.33 per month for 1,000 pages, billed annually | Adds fax by email, a team inbox, scheduling, cover pages, cloud folders, SSO, EHR integrations, OCR and AI extraction. Pages and numbers adjustable. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Volume pricing with commitment discounts, phone support with SLAs, advanced admin controls and up to 150 sites. |

Read from https://www.ifaxapp.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with iFax before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 20% with annual billing** (Annual discount): iFax's pricing toggle says annual billing saves 20%; Basic is $12.49 a month billed annually against $14.99 monthly, and Plus $24.99 against $29.99. Source: https://www.ifaxapp.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **Apps on every device:** Send and receive from iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac apps or a browser. The Plus plan is the first to include receiving and a fax number.
- **Fax numbers and porting:** Pick new local numbers or port existing ones. In the US, numbers added in the pricing calculator cost $4.99 a month each for up to nine.
- **Team inbox and licenses:** Pro adds a shared inbox with assignment; one license is included and more are added in the calculator, starting at $16.66 per user a month.
- **OCR, data extraction and AI chat:** Pro turns faxes into searchable text, pulls details into structured fields and lets you ask questions of a fax in a chat.
- **Branded WebFax page:** Pro includes a branded page where customers can fax you online without a fax machine.
- **Fax API and broadcast:** A programmable fax API, EHR integrations and bulk fax broadcasting are offered on their own pricing tabs.

## Good for

- People who fax from a phone or laptop and want apps on every platform
- Small healthcare and legal teams that need HIPAA-compliant fax
- Teams that want faxes read into structured data

## Worth knowing

- Basic sends only and has no fax number; receiving faxes starts on Plus.
- Fax by email, the team inbox, SSO and OCR are listed only from the Pro plan up.
- A pay-per-fax option for one-off faxes costs from $1.99 per page.
- The Pro price changes with the pages, numbers and licenses chosen in the calculator; $33.33 is its default of 1,000 pages.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. iFax has apps for iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac and a fax API, and its Pro plan reads faxes into data with OCR and AI. The catch is the ladder: Basic at $12.49 a month only sends, a number to receive on needs Plus at $24.99, and fax by email and the team inbox wait for Pro at $33.33.

- **Value for money: D.** Basic is $12.49 a month billed yearly but has no fax number, so it can't receive. Receiving starts on Plus at $24.99 ($29.99 monthly), about two and a half times this category's middle of $9.96.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A 7-day trial of Pro, and no free plan after it. The listing doesn't say whether the trial takes a card. A one-off fax costs from $1.99 a page.
- **Features: B.** Send and receive on every platform, new or ported numbers, a team inbox, OCR, AI extraction and chat, a branded page customers fax you from, broadcast and an API. That's the whole job, though most of it is on Pro.
- **Ease of use: B.** iFax rates 4.5 on the US App Store from 37,609 ratings, which puts it at B on our ease ladder.
- **Platforms and integrations: A.** iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac and web, with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Gmail, Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, HubSpot and Zapier, plus a fax API priced on its own.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from iFax's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among online fax services

- iFax's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 8 of the 10 other online fax services we grade.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 7 of 10) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $12.49 a month, against a middle price of $9.15 for the category: 6 of the 9 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/online-fax

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace iFax you would be making fax numbers connected to the phone network. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 8 of the 10 other online fax services we grade. It costs $149.88 a year.

- You could not: Fax numbers connected to the phone network.
- You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Gmail among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: HIPAA.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.6 out of 5 from 37,609 ratings in the United States, read Oct 24, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id331514859

## Works with

Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Gmail, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, HubSpot, Zapier

**Tags:** Online fax, Public API, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Fax.Plus](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fax-plus): Online fax by web, email, desktop and mobile apps, priced by pages. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fax-plus-vs-ifax)
- [eFax](https://toolgpa.com/tools/efax): Online fax by email, web and apps, with personal and business plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/efax-vs-ifax)
- [CocoFax](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cocofax): Online fax from the web, email, Google and Microsoft apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cocofax-vs-ifax)
- [MetroFax](https://toolgpa.com/tools/metrofax): Low-cost online fax by email, web and mobile app for small businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ifax-vs-metrofax)
- [Notifyre](https://toolgpa.com/tools/notifyre): Pay-per-page online fax and business texting, with a fax API. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ifax-vs-notifyre)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://www.ifaxapp.com/pricing/
- https://www.ifaxapp.com
- https://www.ifaxapp.com/free-fax/
- https://www.ifaxapp.com/one-time-fax/
- https://www.ifaxapp.com/about/

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