Top Best text messaging apps of this year

There are plenty of excellent text messaging apps to select from, and these are a number of our favorites.


text messaging is a huge a part of telephone use for plenty people, and whilst all telephones come with local messaging customers, they… they could suck. some native textual content messaging apps do not manage MMS the way we might like. a few native text messaging apps are laid out poorly. happily we've the option to apply one among many, many third-celebration SMS customers — a number of which can be minimal messaging apps, and others that offer features above and past the relaxation.


Textra



a protracted-time favorite, Textra is a clean-looking SMS app with plenty of functions for hardcore users. Textra offers a slew of customization options with various topic shades, notifications, and according to-contact settings. want to make your textual content messages appear like iMessage? Textra can appearance amazingly like an iPhone. want to set unique hues for texting your boyfriend versus texting your dad and mom? Textra is there to help. there is integrated SMS scheduling, short replies, stepped forward organization messaging, SMS blocking off and greater.

Download Textra (Free, in-app purchases)

Messages

Android Messages is the rebranded model of Google's Messenger app, and it features a easy interface and lots of capabilities for the average user with out going overboard with bells and whistles. It additionally supports Google's RCS functions, which permit for iMessage or WhatsApp-like capabilities like study receipts and larger document transfers as long as your provider helps it. in case you're simply searching out a dependable, simple text messenger in order to paintings nicely, help RCS, and do MMS proper, Android Messages has were given you.

Download Android Messages (free)

Pulse SMS

Pulse SMS is an interesting and very, very customizable text messaging app in its own right, but that's not the real draw for Pulse. No, no, Pulse is a text messaging app that helps bring your text messages to all your other devices, too, from tablets to computers. For users who are chained to a computer all day anyway, Pulse helps you avoid tearing your eyes away from your big, productive screen to your phone, where it's easy to be distracted by notifications that new series are on Netflix, and your lives are refilled on that game you're about to level up on.

Pulse is a paid subscription (or larger one-time fee) for the ability to text from any of your devices, and if you're someone who is texting all the time and wants to use more than just your phone, Pulse will pay for itself quickly. And if that's not what you're after, Pulse is still a top-notch texting app that's easy to navigate.

Pulse SMS (Free, in-app purchases)

Mood Messenger

Mood Messenger wants to be a fusion of web messengers and text messengers, and it's certainly a tantalizing idea. If you have enough people who actually use Mood to use it as a WhatsApp alternative, great for you, but for the rest of us, Mood is still worth a look as a solid SMS app with an interesting UI, dedicated themes, and excellent developer support. Mood also had the option for a Quick Compose persistent notification with a user-selected group of contacts so that they can quickly rattle off a quick text without having to go to the full app.

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