Best Messaging App

[quangtran1]

As someone who just converted to Textra, I can't imagine something so much better! Since you've used both apparently, would you mind giving more detail comparing the two?

These things are matters of preferences. Not to pass the bucks but you can google 'Chomp vs Textra' and get a feel for the differences. They're both owned by Delicious. With Textra, you can change bubble style, colors, text, etc. Chomp gives me unlimited options, down to the color of the timestamp, or the color of the LED notification. With Chomp, I can schedule recurring messages to my staff members. Chomp can be locked from unauthorized users via a pattern lock. See, certain features that are useful or important to one person may not be to another. That said, anything you can do in Textra, you can do in Chomp, plus more.

 

[juliesdroidsync]

These things are matters of preferences. Not to pass the bucks but you can google 'Chomp vs Textra' and get a feel for the differences. They're both owned by Delicious. With Textra, you can change bubble style, colors, text, etc. Chomp gives me unlimited options, down to the color of the timestamp, or the color of the LED notification. With Chomp, I can schedule occurring messages to my staff members. Chomp can be locked from unauthorized users via a pattern lock. See, certain features that are useful or important to one person may not be to another. That said, anything you can do in Textra, you can do in Chomp, plus more.

Thanks!

 

[Rumblee1]

Textra.

I loved textra too, but changed to mysms premium so i could get & send texts from all of my devices and tablet. All from my main phone. I was using free forward which works very well, but limited to only 1 device.

 

[gone down south]

What the use case for recurring test messages? Just curious, not judging

 

[hannsoft]

Oh I did not mean any offense. No worry.
On the other hand, if you like Textra, you'd like Chomps, the granddaddy of them all. You can customize that app to pieces. And it has message scheduling that allows recurring messages.

Oh please, no offense taken whatsoever. All good.

I did look at Chomp, but Chomp can't do one thing that I also need - temporarily lock texts. At least, I couldn't find that.

 

[hannsoft]

What the use case for recurring test messages? Just curious, not judging

No judgement taken.

Every night at 11pm I text the word "on" to Twitter so that I can get news updates via Twitter overnight ... so I know how much more screwed up the the world got overnight. When I get up I text "off" to Twitter so I won't get tweet texts during the day that I don't need. I got to the point where I'd occasionally forget to send out the "on" at night so I set it up as a recurring text on Handcent. But Textra is so good as an SMS app that I've decided I'd rather send the text another way than give up the app.

 

[davidwilp]

Oh please, no offense taken whatsoever. All good.

I did look at Chomp, but Chomp can't do one thing that I also need - temporarily lock texts. At least, I couldn't find that.

I got chompsms specifically because I can lock texts. Just long press the text and the option will come up. That's the reason I don't use Google messaging. No lock

 

[hannsoft]

I got chompsms specifically because I can lock texts. Just long press the text and the option will come up. That's the reason I don't use Google messaging. No lock

Damn, I'm wrong again? OK let me go back and look again. I know there was something Chomp couldn't do that I needed it to, but I must have confused it with one of the others I looked at this weekend. Pulse, maybe.

 

[therealasd]

I went back to Textra. I have nothing at all against Pulse, it's a top app that is smooth, easy to use and the subscription feature for cross-device messaging is top notch. But, in the end, I'm just used to Textra, and it satisfies every request I have for a texting app. I don't really need cross device texting, and if it isn't falling short for me, why change it?

 

[hannsoft]

I thought I read somewhere in this thread that you can pay for Textra? Donate, or something? I always do that when I commit to an app, and want to for this too .. but can't see where to do it!

 

[therealasd]

Should be a spot in Settings, second option under General, about being a Pro User.

 

[juliesdroidsync]

This has been such a helpful post! I am chomping away... I can change all kinds of things that I don't really need to change, but I do, just because I can... and that suits me! LOL

 

[quangtran1]

Damn, I'm wrong again? OK let me go back and look again. I know there was something Chomp couldn't do that I needed it to, but I must have confused it with one of the others I looked at this weekend. Pulse, maybe.

Yessir, you can lock text with Chomp.

 

[slowmyke]

I'm using Google messenger, I've never used a non-standard texting app. I have an issue, however. Whenever I my wife sends me a screenshot photo, it comes in as a zoomed in, color distorted mess. If she sends a picture from her camera or downloaded from online, everything is fine. She is using an iPhone 7. I haven't experimented with other phones texting pictures yet, but I'm wondering is anyone else has ran into this problem? I couldn't find any settings on my phone that seemed like the issue here.

 

[therealasd]

I think I read about that being an issue specific to an iPhone 7 sending to a Pixel.

Here it is:

Google Pixel users report distortion in screenshots from iPhone 7 Plus | The Indian Express

 

[popkurn611]

I loved textra too, but changed to mysms premium so i could get & send texts from all of my devices and tablet. All from my main phone. I was using free forward which works very well, but limited to only 1 device.

Did you notice that if you send someone a screenshot that it sends to the receiver as a link to view it since it's a PNG file? I had mysms and paid in full for it and can't use it BC of that annoyance. I send family screenshots all the time and they have to click a link in the message to view it on the mysms website.

Was curious to know if they fixed that yet.

 

[slowmyke]

I think I read about that being an issue specific to an iPhone 7 sending to a Pixel.

Here it is:

Google Pixel users report distortion in screenshots from iPhone 7 Plus | The Indian Express

Thank you for the info! For the record, my wife has the iPhone 7, not the 7 plus, so I guess I'm another example of the problem affecting both versions of the iPhone 7.

I guess I'll try another SMS app to see if I like it.

 

[Almeuit]

Did you notice that if you send someone a screenshot that it sends to the receiver as a link to view it since it's a PNG file? I had mysms and paid in full for it and can't use it BC of that annoyance. I send family screenshots all the time and they have to click a link in the message to view it on the mysms website.

Was curious to know if they fixed that yet.

Are images being sent by that app in full res? They may be doing the link thing to get full res since MMS can only handle so much and then some carriers add more limitations on top of that.

 

[popkurn611]

Are images being sent by that app in full res? They may be doing the link thing to get full res since MMS can only handle so much and then some carriers add more limitations on top of that.

I just downloaded the app again. I haven't used it in months since that issue was occuring. I had talked to their development team and we both figured out that if you send a PNG file which all screenshots on Android are saved as, then the receiver of the MMS will get the link to view the picture. If you send any other MMS like a jpg then it sends just fine.

I just tested it and sent a screenshot PNG file to myself through the app and I received the image, so I wasn't given the link. Maybe they fixed it not sure!

 

[Almeuit]

I just downloaded the app again. I haven't used it in months since that issue was occuring. I had talked to their development team and we both figured out that if you send a PNG file which all screenshots on Android are saved as, then the receiver of the MMS will get the link to view the picture. If you send any other MMS like a jpg then it sends just fine.

I just tested it and sent a screenshot PNG file to myself through the app and I received the image, so I wasn't given the link. Maybe they fixed it not sure!

Ah okay . Sounds like from your test they may have fixed the issue.