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Alternative to Google's "Messages" app (for SMS) on Android? (play-lh.googleusercontent.com)
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Does anyone know of an open-source alternative to Google's "Messages" app, which takes care of SMS/text messages on my phone?

I was looking for open-source alternatives on PlayStore and F-Droid but can't really find anything – most apps seem to target some extra purpose than simply handling SMSs.

(Edit: I'd like to stay away from the "Simple Mobile Tools" line because I don't know if it's open source, and I don't like the way they promoted some apps – forcing users to update to pro and similar.)

Cheers!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] – thank you for QKSMS, it sounds good. Strange because it doesn't appear with an "SMS" search on F-Droid – but now I got the link :)

Note: I read some users recently complaining about it missing some SMS; let's see if that's still a problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The play store version is out of date (version 3.9.2, last updated 2021-02-07).

You should get it from F-Droid or Github (version 3.10.1, last updated 2023-01-16/2023-01-19).

Edit: Apparently it was only a small update and it's still practically abandoned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This update was very small, just handling a start up crash and an error involving how question marks are handled. I would still consider this project unmaintained.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cheers, got it from F-Droid (another step in de-googling :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last code update was 28th of October 2021. https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms - almost two years of no maintenance. They probably just recompiled it for some reason for fdroid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

3.10 is on a separate branch for some reason, but it's not much