What is Messages - SMS Texting App?

💬 Send and receive SMS and MMS on Android, organise your conversations and personalise how your messages look and sound. This texting app combines everyday messaging with scheduled SMS, group conversations, backups and controls for unwanted contacts.

Share a quick update, arrange plans with a group or send a photo through supported multimedia messaging. Themes, text size and notification sounds help you set up a messaging experience that suits you.

Who is Messages - SMS Texting App for?

Use it when you want an alternative default SMS app for keeping in touch with friends, family or colleagues. Pin conversations you return to often, highlight favourite messages and mute chats when you want fewer interruptions.

If you like to prepare messages ahead of time, schedule an SMS for later. Backup and restore tools let you keep a copy of your text messages for use when restoring your history.

What does Messages - SMS Texting App do?

• SMS and MMS: send and receive texts, take part in group messages and share photos, videos, GIFs, emojis and stickers through supported messaging features.
• Scheduled SMS: prepare a text and choose when to send it rather than composing it at the last moment.
• Backup and restore: back up text messages and restore them from a backup.
• Conversation organisation: pin chats to the top, highlight favourite messages and mark messages or their notifications as read. Use inbox search to find a conversation.
• Personalisation: change themes, font size and notification sounds. Choose individual contact colours and message tones to make conversations easier to recognise.
• Blocking and muting: block unwanted contacts to remove their incoming messages and notifications from view, or mute a conversation while keeping it in your inbox.
• Quick access: use the messaging widget and reply through a pop-up window.
• Contact sharing: send a contact card within a conversation when someone needs a person's details.

How does Messages - SMS Texting App work?

Choose the app as your default SMS handler and allow SMS access to send, receive and manage your text messages. Open a conversation or choose a recipient, write your message and send it. Add supported media when you want to send more than text.

For a message you want to send later, use Schedule SMS and select the time. Use the conversation controls to pin, mute or block a chat, and adjust themes, font size and tones to your preferences. Create a backup before relying on the restore function for your message history.

Compatibility and requirements

Messaging requires a supported Android device and mobile service with SMS or MMS capability. Availability on smartphones and tablets depends on their messaging support and your mobile network. Standard SMS uses the mobile network rather than an internet connection; it still needs service coverage. MMS media and group messaging depend on network support and may require mobile data. Network charges may apply.

The app needs SMS access for its core messaging functions. Media sharing and contact cards require access to the items you choose to send. It contains ads and offers in-app purchases.

Messages - SMS Texting App brings texts, scheduled messages and conversation controls together so you can manage everyday chats in a style that feels familiar to you.