I am looking to replace my phones text message client with something better. I am trying to make my phone clean, minimalist and less addicting (degoogling too). I even installed Niagara launcher, to give an idea of the kind of aesthetic I am looking for. Is there anything out there folks reccomend? Bonus points if its ethical and pro-privacy.
I don’t use any of these suggestions, but the ones I keep hearing *about are Quik and Fossify Messages.
Edit: accidentally a word
I’ve been using the Fossify messenger for a while it is is largely fine. It does not offer proper reaction support, showing “🤣 to ‘MESSAGE’” or some such, and it doesn’t offer to copy authentication codes from a notification. Other than that, it works well.
and it doesn’t offer to copy authentication codes from a notification.
It actually does have that now 🙂👍
I don’t want to naysay you, but I have yet to see that in practice. Is that fairly recently added or in an upcoming release that isn’t on F-Droid yet? I’d love to know more!
I’m using 1.6.0 off f-droid on a rooted phone (not sure if that matters).
It works just like textra where the notification has a button to copy the code.
Well hell yeah, I just had instance to check and it does indeed offer the option!
Currently I am using “Connect You”. It integrated both messages and contacts, which is nice. Doesn’t have a dialer though, so I use Fossify Phone with the contacts function disabled for that. I find Connect You’s method of showing contacts more aesthetically pleasing than Fossify’s, but that’s just personal preference. Lots of people also like “Quik SMS” (a continuation of “QKSMS” I think)
I don’t think any of them support RCS, for whatever that’s worth to you.
The only place I really miss that is with a fantasy football shit-talking group chat. Otherwise, I’ve tried to move away from SMS/MMS/RCS. It’s hard to pull people away from iMessage.
Fossify messages
You mean for SMS? Doesn’t Signal handle that as well?
Edit : nope. Signal doesn’t handle sms
Almost any messaging app is better, the question is what do your friends use, and can you get them to switch.
I’m a fan of XMPP because it’s an established protocol you can host yourself (if you wanted) - this removes untrustworthy providers.
It really comes down to what’s your goal?
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I use Quik, idk if it’s the best or the worse, but it works well enough to receive login tokens which is what I use SMS for.
I use QkSms, even though it’s old and not being maintained, it’s still better than google crap. I tried flossify messages too but liked Qksms over it.
YAATA is very good, sadly its abandoned and not FOSS. I’ve never seen any network request from it tho I block it these days. This is the most lightweight one I tried, much better than Textra/Chomp/etc.
QKSMS is foss and I saw some suggestions for it, but it was way too complex for my use.
