mySMS Alternatives and Similar Software

Hangouts

Hangouts is a messaging app that lets you send and receive messages, photos and more, and even start free video and voice calls – one to one or with a group! "Hangouts" are places used to facilitate group video chat (with a maximum of 10 people participating in a single Hangout at any point in time). Within the 10 person limit participants may use voice only phones to dial in to the hangout instead of the desktop or mobile video chat feature.

• Hangouts only allows cross-platform SMS access of a Google Voice number. Guest • Apr 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Requires internet for both parties. Guest • Oct 2015 Disagree   Agree

Free Windows Web Android iPhone Chrome OS ... Android Tablet iPad Chrome Android Wear

WhatsApp Messenger

WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia and yes, those phones can all message each other! Because WhatsApp Messenger uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your friends.

Free Mac Windows Web Android iPhone ... S60 Blackberry Android Tablet Windows Phone Blackberry 10 Android Wear

Pushbullet

Pushbullet is the easiest and fastest way to send links, pictures, files, lists, notes, and more right into your phone's notification tray, to your computer, or to a friend, really fast. Originally offering users a synchronized clipboard for universal copy and paste, and phone notifications on their desktop, Pushbullet has now relegated these options to a $5/month "pro" plan, that is due to commence on 1/12/2015.

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Zulip

Zulip is a group chat app. Its most distinctive characteristic is that messages are threaded by topic, helping you have long-running, organized conversations. Zulip's threading makes it easy for people not always on chat (like managers, remote team members, contractors, part-time workers, etc) to weigh in on questions and decisions, and for people in different timezones to effectively communicate.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet BSD Self-Hosted

Mightytext

Send & Receive SMS Text Messages from your computer. Sync'd with your Android # Free. Send & Receive Text Messages from your Computer, sync'd with your Android phone! With MightyText Android™ App & Chrome Extension, you can: 1) Send SMS text messages from your computer 2) Receive SMS text messages immediately as they come in on your Android device 3) Sync all SMS text messages from your Android device to your computer

Freemium Web Android Android Tablet

WeChat

WeChat is a complete mobile communication and private social networking app. Free, cross-platform, and full-featured, WeChat is the best way to keep in touch with everyone you care about. Features WECHAT OUT CALLS: Make calls to landlines and mobile around the globe at low rates (in certain regions only). • MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING: Send video, image, text, and voice messages. • GROUP CHAT & CALLS: Create group chats with up to 500 people and group video calls up to 9 people.

Freemium Mac Windows Android iPhone S60 ... Blackberry Windows S Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch

Android Messages

Android Messages is Google's communications app for Android to helps send and receive SMS and MMS messages. You can also send group texts as well as your favorite pictures, videos and even audio messages to your contacts. FEATURES • Faster sharing: Select or take pictures and videos directly from the app and share easily. You can even send audio messages to your contacts.

Free Open Source Web Android Chrome OS Android Wear

Dasher Messenger

Dasher lets you do more than just text message. It's messaging with benefits: · Connect with friends worldwide for free · Start a group chat · Find a place to meet up · Share your location in real time as you head out to meet up with friends · Express yourself with GIFs.

Free Web Android iPhone

SeaFour.club

SeaFour is the SeaFour.club community's chat engine, powered by Node.js and Socket.io. It's a socket webchat supporting aesthetic username customization and stylized messages using a markup language similar to 'LISP', and supports a multitude of alternative clients. It uses a free-as-in-freedom license that enables users to modify the software to best fit their needs.

Free Open Source Linux Web BSD

Sesame Chat

Sesame is a messaging app that gives you a self-aware digital assistant to protect messages on your behalf: your own Personal Cognitive Messenger™. Your Cognitive Messenger delivers, monitors, and independently audits your messages according to your own terms and permissions settings (much more than ‘message destructs in X time’). Most importantly, they create a tangible property right in your messages and content, which means you can always take your property back from any device, forever.

Free Personal iPhone iPad

Textto

Send and receive sms, picture, and group messages all from your computer! Read and Reply to texts without picking up your phone. Text from your computer just like you would with your phone. Save time reading and replying to your text conversations. No need to change your texting app. Textto syncs with your Android phone's texting app. Whether you're using the default app or a third party app, Textto has got you covered. Fully Featured.

Free Web Android Android Tablet

WWChat

Chat with people you know, or find new friends. Main Features: Share messages, photos, videos, sound/voice recordings and location. Notification of messages when application is not running. Profile picture and about information. Create your own groups or join existing ones. Groups can be public or private. PIN code to lock application and protect your privacy. Set favorite contacts and groups. Manual and automatic deletion of messages.

Free Android Android Tablet

WowApp

WowApp helps you do good through the Power of Sharing. We share all revenues with you. WowApp Messenger is free and you can receive earnings without ever spending money. Next, the choice is yours. You can choose to do good for others by donating to one of the nearly 2000 charities in over 110 countries or to do good for yourself by cashing out. WowApp shares more than 70% of revenue/margin from the international paid calling market and from digital and mobile advertising.

Freemium Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad

Tinode

Open source instant messaging server and clients. Backend in pure Go (license GPL 3.0), client-side binding in Java for Android and Javascript (license Apache 2.0), persistent storage RethinkDB. JSON over websocket (long polling is also available). Tinode is meant as a replacement for XMPP. Overall it's a lot like open source WhatsApp or Telegram.

Free Open Source Web Android Self-Hosted

Photo4Tune

Photo4tune is a free application that provides a simple way to capture and share the best moments of your life on your Android phone. All the photos you post will appear on the world’s map showing the place they were taken. Photo4tune also introduces a new way of communication, allowing you to set a visibility timer for your messages. Joining Photo4tune is easy: your phone number serves as your ID.

• Discontinued The apps are no longer updated. Last version, 4.0, released in December 2014, can be still downloaded from the Apple Appstore and Google Play Store

Free Android iPhone

FullonSMS

Fullonsms.com provides its users a platform to enjoy the freedom of messaging. Users can send UNLIMITED messages anywhere in India and that too FREE. All a user needs to do is register himself with the website, which hardly takes a minute. Keeping our users in mind we have tried to create a simple, neat and easy to use site that enhances your experience on fullonsms.com. Fullonsms.com has a unique and fresh collection of greeting messages for every upcoming occasion.

Free Web

Way2SMS

Way2SMS.com is an online portal based in Hyderabad, India, offering free and unlimited SMS across India funded by private advertisements. It was owned by Way2Online Interactive India Pvt Ltd.PortalWay2SMS.com is a person-to-person communication network web site founded by Raju Vanapala in 2006. It is India's first free text messaging portal that also allows chat, email and social media alerts. Alexa Traffic Rank of Way2SMS.

Free Web Android Android Tablet

Site2SMS

Site2Sms.com offers Free Unlimited 260 Character's Text Sms to any mobile number in India & Free Voice SMS.

Free Web

Quack! Messenger

Quack! Messenger is an Instant Messaging Service that pays you for chatting. The more you use the App, the more you earn. As simple as that! How to make money? While chatting with your friends, you will see ads, without interfering with the normal chat functionality. Obtain daily earnings, based on your use of the App interacting with advertising and messaging. How to get paid? The first day of the following month, you can request the money earned, through your Paypal account.

Free Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

DeskSMS

DeskSMS forwards your text messages to your GMail, Google Chat, and DeskSMS Chrome and Firefox extension! And if you reply back, the recipient gets a text from your number! You can use your favorite IM client (Beejive, Trillian, etc) or email client to send text messages from your phone number!

• Discontinued The app seems no longer maintained: it is no longer on Google Play Store and the site http://desksms.appspot.com/ doesn't work. The APK can be downloaded from http://www.clockworkmod.com/ and the source code can be found at https://github.com/ClockworkMod/DeskSMS

Commercial Web Android Android Tablet Chrome Firefox

Mini WA+

Features of Patch Unlike modded apks no backend tracking or ads. Completely open code (txt files) thus no privacy concerns. Patch is 100% AntiBan cause it is applied on official apk Hide Privacy : Last Seen (customizable), Blue Ticks (customizable), seen stories, typing, blue voice notes(No more breakups with GF(s) !!!) Unlocked hidden features.

Free Android

Cherry SMS

Cherry SMS allows to send SMS messages worldwide at very attractive rates. It features no ads, no base fee, no set-up fee and the credits purchased are available for an unlimited period. The rate for one SMS varies from 4 eurocents for the basic credit recharge to 2.5 eurocents for the bulk recharge (for SMS messages sent without without the sender ID). For messages sent with the sender ID, the rates are doubled to 8 and 5 eurocents, respectively. (Rates as of July 2011.)

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GBWhatsapp

GBWhatsApp App have video call feature and many privacy feature available in the latest update for GBWhatsApp APK for android, With GBWhatsApp Plus you can use two applications (accounts) of WhatsApp and WhatsApp Plus in same android device and More themes , increasing the number of letters in status, and the possibility to hide notifications, and the possibility to send larger video size and audio file without worry, and send e-books .

Free Android

AwSMS

AwSMS is an SMS/MMS replacement app that offers tons of customization options. Currently No Dual-sim support Features • Unique Heads Up Quick Reply • Per Contact Avatar Color Options • Per Conversation Customization • Snooze Notifications • Night Mode • Android Wear Support Works on all devices running 4.1 and above

Freemium Android Android Tablet Android Wear

Daily Co

The unlimited 1-click video calling No time limits. No downloads. Send unlimited links with free dial-in, free 50 person calls, and recording. All on your own subdomain.

Free Personal Web