Which SMS app is everyone using?

[Milehigh]

I've been using GoSMS pro, for texting to groups, private inbox, and other minor features. Does Google message or Textra allow for those features?

 

[Dee74]

I am using stock. I tried using Textra on my S10+ but there were several glitches and many messages did not transfer over from my S8+.

 

[Adam Frix]

To my understanding to whichever carrier support this you can see RCS with TMobile and another carrier, if you using another message app like Android messages then I can't say for sure .

Which is my whole point. Until it's truly universal, it might as well not exist. I use Google Messages for a couple specific reasons; if T-Mobile doesn't support RCS through something like that, then RCS might as well just be another iMessage disaster.

 

[Adam Frix]

I've been using GoSMS pro, for texting to groups, private inbox, and other minor features. Does Google message or Textra allow for those features?

Groups, yes. Private inbox, I don't think so.

Other notable features of Google Messages:

* very easy sharing to SMS from other apps; it lists your latest conversations as targets for sharing, instead of simply showing you a blank message and letting you type in the recipients

* web based messaging via messages.android.com. It mirrors what's on your phone, and uses your phone for the actual messaging, but it gives you computer-based access to all of it via web browser. I find it extremely handy, and frankly a deal-breaker when it comes to moving to Samsung Messages. I'd much rather have the web-based access vs RCS at this point.

 

[mustang7757]

Which is my whole point. Until it's truly universal, it might as well not exist. I use Google Messages for a couple specific reasons; if T-Mobile doesn't support RCS through something like that, then RCS might as well just be another iMessage disaster.

Well hopefully it will become more universal soon .

 

[deppi0]

I used to love the stock Android messenger but I have been using TrueCaller for the past month and I love it on the S10

 

[Notefan161]

WhatsApp only messaging service i use...

 

[Adam Frix]

Well hopefully it will become more universal soon .

Well, that's my hope.

I just got off the phone with T-Mobile; indeed, the Universal Profile--which rolled out to the S9 family a few months ago--is not on the S10 family. "It will appear when it appears", apparently.

 

[mustang7757]

Well, that's my hope.

I just got off the phone with T-Mobile; indeed, the Universal Profile--which rolled out to the S9 family a few months ago--is not on the S10 family. "It will appear when it appears", apparently.

Keep us posted if you see it otherwise probably see in news feed.

 

[Mattsg430]

Textra and Telegram

 

[bembol]

Stock. Not to fussy about it.

 

[maverick96]

Only problem I've noticed with any of the texting apps outside of stock is they don't work via WiFi and they don't send pictures in full resolution.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

Only problem I've noticed with any of the texting apps outside of stock is they don't work via WiFi and they don't send pictures in full resolution.

All texting compresses the resolution. Textra works while I'm on WiFi

 

[Milehigh]

What does the universal profile provide?

 

[anon(661246)]

Pulse SMS, best SMS

 

[eds817]

I'm using the Google messages app because I can send/receive on my computer. I prefer the Samsung app because it allows delayed sending. Hopefully Google will add this feature.

 

[claykin]

* web based messaging via messages.android.com. It mirrors what's on your phone, and uses your phone for the actual messaging, but it gives you computer-based access to all of it via web browser. I find it extremely handy, and frankly a deal-breaker when it comes to moving to Samsung Messages. I'd much rather have the web-based access vs RCS at this point.

Windows 10 v1809 supports Android messages on PC. Works well for me and I get notifications through windows. To me this is better than the Messages browser interface which periodically requires reauthentication (due to my cache/cookie cleanup) on my pc. Browser interface also lacks desktop notifications.

 

[claykin]

I've been using Google Messages since I switched to the S10+. Prior to that I fairly exclusively used Textra. While I like some of Textra's features / options, I far prefer the searching of Google Messages. Textra really needs to modernize their search options.

 

[Adam Frix]

Windows 10 v1809 supports Android messages on PC. Works well for me and I get notifications through windows. To me this is better than the Messages browser interface which periodically requires reauthentication (due to my cache/cookie cleanup) on my pc. Browser interface also lacks desktop notifications.

hmmmm, browser interface does a great job of desktop notifications for me.

But more to the point: that Windows 10 supports Android Messages on PC is irrelevant to me and to much of the world, who are not on Windows 10.

Browser interface is universal.

 

[sctiger]

Textra