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!
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
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?
You mean for SMS? Doesn’t Signal handle that as well?
Edit : nope. Signal doesn’t handle sms
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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)
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.
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.
