Actually good SMS app other than Google's Messenger?
go sms
>>54640590
Aosp messenger
>>54640590
textra
>>54640679
seconding this
>>54640590
Textra is good
>>54640679
>>54640821
>>54640868
>"textra team"
>>54640590
Signal.
>>54640875
>"Stop liking what I don't like you shills!!"
>>54640958
Only good answer
use qksms since it is in the f-droid repos
>>54640958
+1. Don't be a fool.
>>54640590
Allo
>textra
>no dual sim support
>>54641236
I too enjoy not receiving all of my messages
>>54640958
>>54641292
>>54641180
Problem with signal is you cannot search your messages like you can with the messaging app. Searching for their stance on it seems like they have no plan to add support for that either.
>>54643681
Why would you even want to?
>>54643691
To see what someone said about a certain topic a while ago? For example if you want to see if a person liked/disliked something and told you so, or maybe to call out a friend when they flop on an issue (joking/friendly manner of course)? Its useful when you have long sms convos and need to look up something quick. Why would you manually sift through it?
janky ass OEM coolers
>>54643728
That doesn't even seem remotely useful, though. I wouldn't sift through it either because I have a hippocampus. Are you seriously so incapable of remembering anything that you demand that a messaging service adds in this feature?
>with the messaging app
Which one? Because I've never even seen any that has this feature.
Google hangouts :^)
Signal
>>54643813
The stock one.
I search through IRC logs now and then, I would like the same for SMS.
>>54643912
>The stock one
Which one? AOSP? Your manufacturer's?
>>54643936
Whatever the stock one in Marshmallow is (Messenger?).
I use Google Voice
Textra, if you don't mind the ads...
Signal is the only option for a basic messenger
>>54643936
normal google "messenger" sms app has a search button for your messages
>>54640590
Textra. Not stupidly simple like Messenger but also not literally hundreds of options worth of stuff to fuck with like so many other SMS applications. It's fast. It works. It requires minimal tweaking.
>>54640679
This desu
Textra + adaway
QKSMS is the best SMS app, it has all the options from other apps that everyone loves, and it's FOSS
With Google opinion rewards, there's not reason not to use textra
Google messenger's quick reply that blanks the whole screen without showing what you're replying to... fucking dropped
>>54640590
Allo :^)
>>54646107
>using the smiley with a carat nose
>>54640958
Any answer other than this is cuck-tier.
>>54646231
>being triggered by people's emoticons
wow you're like those SJWs on github freaking out over eggplants. except you don't have a vagina.
... so if you haven't got a vagina, why should we tolerate you?
Who else here /literally texts no one/?
QKSMS because it werks on my carrier™
>>54640590
is allo gonna do sms too or is it like whatsapp and teleram?
>>54646371
text as in sms? here. sms isn't free where i live. people used to have viber or whatsapp here to text but now everyone uses telegram. i only get regular sms from my bank
>>54643967
Fucking horrible
>>54640679
I second this
I’ve been using it for quite a while now, and I have no complain about it, except maybe the ads when you have the free version.
>>54643813
No one's memory is perfect, and especially for something like Signal (which I've used for security concerns in preference to otherwise more appropriate, not-texting-like platforms) being able to reference past conversations is useful.
What they should do is give users the *option* of storing all past messages or all past messages for a conversation locally and accessible for text search. They have an encrypted archive thing on the Android version. Make it live and searchable and there you go.
Archive + searchable is really all I want out of iOS Signal at this point. Desktop compatibility would be a plus.
>>54646787
All that said, USE SIGNAL, WhatsApp as a fallback if you need some extra feature.
Google Allo
>>54646794
what advantages does signal have over telegram?
>>54646820
Encryption and free as in freedom
>>54646820
- Telegram only supports 1-to-1 end-to-end encrypted chats, and only between mobile devices.
Signal supports group encrypted chats, and if your mobile is Android you can use the desktop beta.
(Telegram is, obviously, way more fully featured for non-encrypted chats than Signal. But WhatsApp is probably a better option now that they're using Signal's crypto.)
- Telegram lacks perfect forward secrecy, in other words if you get the key to one encrypted message between two people you crack them all. Signal encrypts every single message with a different key.
- Signal uses reliable, proven cryptography. Telegram's cryptography, while probably okay, was something they built themselves and the team doesn't have the best cryptographic expertise.
- Signal is fully open source. Telegram's clients are open source but its server software is closed source.
- By using Signal, you're supporting and building up an ecosystem controlled that's more secure than anything comparable out there and controlled by people with solid politics and a real commitment to fending off state surveillance.
Telegram is a private company that runs like a private company and was founded by the guys who made Russian Facebook.
>>54640590
What happened to heml.is ?
>>54640590
>2016
>SMS
>>54640958
>not Silence
Enjoy being cucked by Faggotspike and enjoy the gubmit reading your messages
>>54646963
>- Telegram only supports 1-to-1 end-to-end encrypted chats, and only between mobile devices.
There's lotsa' of desktop clients for Telegram, but yeah, Signal is better, the only problem is how fucking jealous is Faggotspike of allowing anyone else into the system
>- By using Signal, you're supporting and building up an ecosystem controlled that's more secure than anything comparable out there and controlled by people with solid politics and a real commitment to fending off state surveillance.
Solid politics like working with Facebook on WhatsApp, and threatening people who try to stay away of Google, like the people who uploaded it to F-Droid and the people who forked and started to strip GMS of it
>Telegram is a private company that runs like a private company and was founded by the guys who made Russian Facebook.
Open Whisper is a private company too, which is (or was?) owned by Twitter
>>54643499
Too soon senpai, too soon....
>>54647873
WTF is Silence?
>>54646991
It died without even delivering a beta, or an alpha
>>54647913
A fork of TextSecure (now Signal) made when they stripped encryption from SMS, they renamed it to SMSSecure, and now they renamed it to Silence
It follows Signal closely, but they been adding changes to be better at SMS, like dual SIM support
>>54643663
sorry about that pajeet
Going on the assumption that these crypto-sms apps require both sides to use it, what the hell's the point? You think people I'm going to message are as autistic as me?
No mention for AwSMS? It's still in beta, but bretty gud alternative to Textra.
>>54640958
>not LibreSignal
>>54643665
What?
>>54643665
Never had that problem.
>>54640679
>textra
Especially now that they have built in Giphy support
>>54647913
An extraterrestrial race controlling mankind and that nearly destroyed the universe.
>>54646510
Where I live people still use Viber and Fb Messenger. Fucking normies.
>>54648086
We think you aren't going to message anyone.
when the fuck is whatsapp going to add fuckin gif support for fucks sake
>>54640868
>>54640679
Can I schedule messages in textra ?
>>54650431
Yes
>>54650078
when facebook feels like paying for a license to use it?
>>54651085
oh my bad, it appears all the relevant patents expired like a decade ago.
>>54650045
viber is garbage desu, haven't used it in a while but he interface got too ugly and there was serious feauture creep going on
>>54643826
>using the smiley with a carat nose
>>54640590
iMessage :^)
>>54640590
SMSSecure, you can get it on F-droid
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.smssecure.smssecure
Guess its called silence now
>>54640590
WTF! SMS app?!
Android is really shit, Jesus!
>>54640590
Awsms
Disa IM. Bundles Facebook messenger, SMS and whatsapp if you want. Also works as a full standalon texting app.
>>54640679
Duo/Quad sim support?
>>54651581
I know right, why give someone choice?!
>>54651536
>using the smiley with a carat nose
