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Ask HN: What's a Good SMS App for Android?
Now that Signal is removing support for SMS, I'm anticipating an exodus as Signal users search for alternative SMS apps. Does anyone have any recommendations?
I don't want to use the default Android SMS app, because apparently it will soon support sending and parsing iOS fallback messages (i.e. 'Liked "..."'). I just want plain, standards-compliant SMS, with no risk of accidentally sending fallback messages. Plus, I don't agree with the notion that Apple should be able to bully others into recognizing their SMS extension features.
- samketchup 4y agoTextra
- nstbayless 4y ago"Silence" apparently does what Signal used to: https://silence.im/#download https://silence.im/#download -- unencrypted SMS messages, and encrypted SMS for others who use the same app.
- tristan957 4y agoI use Pulse SMS and paid for the lifetime access to text from any device like a web browser for instance. I used to use Textra, but dropped it a few years ago for reasons I cannot recall.
- josephcsible 4y ago> Plus, I don't agree with the notion that Apple should be able to bully others into recognizing their SMS extension features. If doing so wouldn't require any proprietary code, then why do you think that's a bad thing?
- stjohnswarts 4y agotextra is pretty good, at least when I was using Android.
- i13e 4y agoQKSMS, available on fdroid and Google Play, is the gold standard for SMS. It is free and open source: https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms
- mytdi 4y agoLooks interesting, but doesn't look like it has an option for end-to-end encryption.
- tarunmuvvala 4y agoSMS organizer by Microsoft is good on Andriod.