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A good open source sms app? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey y'all. Like the title says, I'm looking for an android sms app. I used to use signal, but they removed support for it in October last year. I switched over to qksms which has been great, except it doesn't support video, only pictures for MMS. The default app that came with my phone doesnt support group chat titles, and sms messenger from f-droid says it supports video mms, but it keeps failing to send video (despite the size being 1.4Mb). Y'all got any other suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is the one I use. I don't know if it supports the features you need tho because I very rarely use SMS

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I also use Simple SMS. Works fine for text messaging - but I use Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp for everything else.

It is excellent at extracting OTP codes for easy copying and pasting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really wish Google would stop gating RCS away from regular developers

[–] noneabove1182 1 points 2 years ago

For real, I'd love to use basically any other SMS app but losing RCS sucks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I think QKSMS is still in active development and it works great for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sending videos through MMS have always been tricky, even back in the good old days.

Instead, I can highly recommend using any chat service (examples: Telegram (bad privacy practice, though, but still one of the best out there), Session, SimpleX Chat) or a file transfer service (examples: Nextcloud, Send (fork of Firefox Send)).

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