Fossify’s Messenger is awesome, it handles SMS/MMS plus it’s ad free and open-source.
I’m using Quik SMS which is a continuation of QK SMS. I’ve found that the current state of SMS apps on Android kinda… Sucks. Fossify messenger is probs my second favorite
I use Textra
Here too, found it many years ago, bought the Pro pretty soon after and now have been using it ever since. It just does everything right.
I use QKSMS on F-Droid.
I miss when Signal still handled SMS. It was so effing convenient.
Their justification for that is so bullshit to me. They let perfect be the enemy of good
I’m a little late in my reply but I believe they stopped SMS support because it’s pretty expensive in the long run. Signal took off over lockdowns like a lot of platforms, and SMS texts cost quite a bit (at scale) to route and process. My anecdotal evidence (take it or leave it) is that I worked at a fairly major ecomm tech company around that same time who discontinued 2FA verification via SMS in regions like India (etc) because collectively it was costing the company millions to use that route for that purpose.
They actually offloaded the 2FA flows to free (for the user anyhow) services such as Google Authenticator and Authy etc etc (which those companies now have to spend the money on each SMS interaction and/or server costs, not the one I was working for.
Ultimately I think Signal did it because it was costing them a lot of money with not a lot of benefit as more people adopted the platform.
Makes me wonder what the real reason was.
It doesn’t anymore?
They stopped about a year ago.
Textra. I bought it years ago. Had it on multiple phones. Still works great and still gets updated. Lots of options too. My favorite is a little delay timer on the send button that gives me a chance to cancel if I see a typo at the last second or just change my mind.
I used Textra for years across maybe 4 phones. The customization is great, but it started randomly dropping ringtones on my Pixel 7 Pro…it’s the P7P that sucks ass, not Textra.
I eventually quit Textra because it doesn’t support RCS
I eventually quit Textra because it doesn’t support RCS
Fuck Google.
No love for simple mobile tools?
Not anymore after they got acquired
A free fork is called FossifyOrg
Mezo SMS, comes with a beautiful keyword filter. “to unsubscribe” gets rid of 99% of the spam out there.
Feels like that keyword phrase would fuck up a lot of legitimate automated messages I actually do want (e.g. pharmacy refills, food delivery, appointment reminders, etc). Regardless, a custom keyword filter would be excellent.
It works for me since I hate subscriptions and don’t use anything that sends stuff to my phone :-)
I’d also like to know. Though I think only google has RCS.
Part of the reason I refuse to use RCS.
The primary reason is its a shit protocol - they’ve had 20 years to make a protocol that competes with existing protocols, it’s still problematic, and it’s still dependent on a phone number/SIM.
