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what are your recommendations for a good privacy friendly sms app? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, currently I use qksms but its very problematic and lacks basic fetures. One of those issues being you cant send videos, and sending and recieving media is pixalated or blurry because of a commpresion issue. I've already tried adjusting the compresion options in settings to find out it doesn't work.

What messangers do you guys/gals recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, qksms's handling of group messages is really klunky, too.

Deku SMS looks nice, but it doesn't understand group SNS at all. Neither does Connect You (it also doesn't have search-by-name for texts, and has trouble linking contacts to texts). Simple SMS is now verboten.

Despite warts, I'm stuck with qksms as well.

Edit Fossify Messages has been released on fdroid. It supports groups, looks nice, and is working for me so far!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The Simple Mobile Tools are being forked at Fossify.

Messages doesn't have a release yet, but keep an eye on it for now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'm liking these forks! I didn't realize how much I hate the orange theme Simple uses; the change to green alone made the apps installable, for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It released bro

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gave it a try, its really buggy but after few patches it should be fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah. And am so happy that they showed their willing to fork simplemobiletools.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Nice. Didn't see it while I was checking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Not to also mention that the dev for qksms hasn't fixed some issues from 2017.