There are tons of companies in this space; have you considered actually doing the "pay for the service" plan and evaluate these options? What did they not do that you wanted?
I search for a replacement every year. I have never found a near competitor. Vonage used to have a desktop app that was at least in the ballpark, but they dropped support years ago.
Feature set: Voicemail integration with carrier
Voicemail to Text with notifications
Voicemail specific to groups
Desktop app/Browser plugin
Web message interface
Mobile App
Long distance
International voice and text
MMS
Group
Forwarding
Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps
by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:29AM
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Could you please list some? I've looked, and I did not find tons, and I was actually less convinced of the quality of what I found than of Voice! It's gotten to where I considered rolling something with Twilio et al.
What the hell is going on at Google? Is there anyone with an actual strategy for anything? I thought about getting Google Fi, but right on their page they said if you move from Voice to Fi you can't go back.
I would easily pay $5 a month or more for a company that could give me a single number and not be terrible. I think if Google actually charged for a lot of their free stuff it wouldn't be so shit/never updated/abandoned/etc.. - like an Amazon Prime type thing.