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Alternative to Google's "Messages" app (for SMS) on Android?
(play-lh.googleusercontent.com)
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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.
@youngerpants@lemmy.world @0_0@lemmy.world @InterSynth@lemmy.dbzer0.com @poudlardo@jlai.lu – 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.
The play store version is out of date (version 3.9.2, last updated 2021-02-07).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.
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.
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.
3.10 is on a separate branch for some reason, but it's not much
Cheers, got it from F-Droid (another step in de-googling :)