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Alternative to Google's "Messages" app (for SMS) on Android?
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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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I used to use all the Simple tools, even paid for them, unfortunately the dev changed monetization to a shitty model and I got locked out.
Since then I moved to QKSMS. Its on F-Droid and despite some initial quirks I'm very happy with it.
The SMS app from Simple tools is bad anyways. Group messaging is totally messed up. I threw in the towel when i responded to a group message and it sent an individual message to each person in the group.
You can fix that in settings (and I did), but it's still wild that the default setting for group texts isnt MMS. What I've found even more frustrating is that there seems to be no way to make it show you a name on the contacts in a group chat. It only shows the first letter and a random color for each individual person. Can be tough to figure out who's who even amoung my closest friends just because half their names start with the same letters.