Can anyone recommend an sms app for tablets?

[dialedin]

Does anyone know of an app that will allow me to use my local sim card in my tablet to send sms /mms? I pay for a data and texting plan. Google messages used to offer this function but no longer apparently. I just want something that will allow my tablet phone number to send and recieve messages.

 

[SpookDroid]

Unfortunately there's no app that will allow this natively as the SIM card on tablets aren't provisioned for voice/text and are either data-only or linked to your Main number.

You can use Google Messages or Textra (paid) to use cloud sync to your phone or get a virtual number from services like Google Voice.

 

[dialedin]

but what if the card has both? I have a tablet sim card with data and it is also linked to its own phone number.

 

[SpookDroid]

If the tablet supports that feature (and your carrier has that enabled for the card; even having its own number doesn't mean it can make calls/receive texts without the 'main' line associated with it), you should have a Messages app pre-installed and that would clearly state that there's an active text line with it. Otherwise it would only let you link it to a phone with a 'main' SIM.