Textra SMS

Contains adsIn-app purchases
440K reviews
Content rating
Rated for 3+
10M+
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Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

Textra is an alternative to your stock SMS/MMS app (that came preinstalled on your phone). So, whether you're looking for a faster experience, better customization options, more color or just a specific feature (like scheduling a text in the future) you've come to the right place.

Feature rich, notably 180+ material design theme, bubble & app icon colors. Light, dark, black, night & android screen modes, multiple bubble styles, scheduled (future) SMS & MMS, send delay, slide to delete, slide to call, quick snap camera, multi-select picture gallery, quick reply SMS popup, awesome MMS GROUP messaging, quick voice memos, endless GIFs, 21 text sizes, multiple font options, message blocker / blocklisting, pin-to-top, automatic video & picture compression, support for iOS reactions, iOS emojis & heaps more!

Customize your preferred theme & bubble colors, signatures and notifications (icon shape, sound, privacy, reminders, and muting) per conversation as well.

Get all the latest Android, Twitter, JoyPixels & iOS style emojis including diversity (skin tone). Just pick your preferred emoji style and express yourself!

NEW: Added support for Reactions (also known as Tapbacks) received from iOS Apple devices. So, for example instead of seeing an incoming message saying: Loved "See you at 9pm", you'll now see a love heart emoji superimposed on the message you sent. Just like on iOS devices, Facebook Messenger etc. You can also send reactions!

NEW: Copy Partial Text tap a bubble to check out this great new feature that allows you to copy any part of the text in a bubble!

It's pretty special; try it, tell your friends, shout from the treetops, but most of all enjoy it.

Fully compatible with Pushbullet, MightyText and Android Auto (car) for enhanced notifications and quick reply.

All Textra features are free forever. Occasionally you'll see an ad, or you can choose to make a once only in-app purchase to remove ads forever.

Support, Knowledge Base & Feedback @ https://textra.uservoice.com

Simple. Beautiful. Fast.
Textra is a seriously beautiful, super-fast, feature rich SMS and MMS app
Updated on
Nov 8, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Location, App activity and 2 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, App activity and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

438K reviews
Christina Olson (TinAztech)
September 20, 2026
Updated review: I've been using Textra for about 3.5 months. For some random reason, audible adds began playing on loop whenever I opened the app that would pause my music & videos that were playing in the background. NEXT DAY the issue has been corrected. This app is not as organized as I am personally accustomed to, however I appreciate the customer service that has been presented & I'ma keep giving it a go. THANK YOU 😊
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Delicious
September 19, 2026
Apologies, 100% we were not aware of these type of adverts being implemented in Textra SMS, development team are looking into this right now and will fix it ASAP. Can you please email us any related video recording of the adverts at [email protected], as this will greatly assist us. Rest assured we're onto this!
Dax Murray
September 19, 2026
Ads are now playing sound?! I've been fine with having ads, I don't care. But today they started playing *sound.* Anytime I would open the app to check a message or reply, dude starts talking about Coinstar. I upgraded to latest version, still get the sound-on ads. I'm hoping this is a bug, if not, I'm finding a new app. Not paying to have it de-ensh1ttified.
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Delicious
September 19, 2026
Apologies Dax, we were aware of these adverts issue and our development team are fixing it now. Rest assured we're onto this and will turn off and ban this advert provider!
Bry Weasley
December 8, 2024
This has always been a great app. There is only 1 thing I would change. I would change the delete message function. Why do I have to slide the message to the right and then click the garbage icon twice? That's 3 steps for what should be 1. It's a big time waster & really the only reason why I often switch to a different text app. Textra never fails to send a text, unlike Messages. I appreciate that!!! I'm patiently waiting for Android to add RCS support for 3rd party apps. 😎
281 people found this review helpful
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December 8, 2024
Hi Bryan, We've forwarded your feedback to our developers. Thank you for taking out the time to send us your suggestions, highly appreciated!

What’s new


✔ Added support for the latest (Unicode 17) emojis for Android, iOS and Joypixel styles.
✔ Improved Scheduled Message feature.
✔ Bug fixes (including audio ad issue).