Textra is described as 'Seriously beautiful, feature rich SMS and MMS app' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Textra for a variety of platforms, including Android, Android Tablet, F-Droid, Web-based and Android Wear apps. The best Textra alternative is Fossify Messages, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Textra are QUIK, QKSMS, Google Messages and Deku SMS.
Fossify Messenger is your trusted messaging companion, designed to enhance your messaging experience in various ways.
Fossify Messages is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Textra.
Fossify Messages is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Textra.
QUIK is an open source replacement to the stock messaging app on Android. It is a continuation of QKSMS.
QKSMS brings a refreshingly beautiful and responsive Material Design touch to the stale state of text messaging.
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.
Google Messages is the most popular Web-based alternative to Textra.
Deku SMS is a feature-rich, open-source default SMS app designed to enhance your messaging experience while prioritizing your privacy and security. With Deku SMS, you can seamlessly send and receive end-to-end encrypted SMS messages, ensuring that your conversations remain...
A great way to stay in touch with your relatives, by sending both SMS and MMS messages. The app properly handles group messaging too, just like blocking numbers from Android 7+.
Partisan-SMS is based on the open-source SMS app QKSMS. P-SMS encrypts SMS messages to allow for peaceful protesters to communicate without authoritarian regimes being able to spy on them.
This Android app allows you to synchronize your SMS messages to a remote Nextcloud instance where you can read and backup them. It also allows you to restore your SMS messages to your Android phone.
Vidar is an open-source end-to-end encrypted SMS application utilizing the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES256) to send symmetrically encrypted messages. Unlike most messaging apps, Vidar operates entirely over SMS; this eliminates the need for internet access or external...
Access messages everywhere Whether you are working at your computer, reading on your tablet, or watching the game on your TV. Pulse is with you everywhere, so you never miss a message.
GO SMS PRO brings you cool UI, fast and convenient SMS/MMS experience. GO SMS Pro (yet FREE) is a huge enhancement for stock messaging app, much faster and more functions.
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After PulseSMS was bought by Maple Media they seem to have a tendency to "lose" previous Lifetime subscribers credentials.
What's more, they expect the customer to provide a 5 year old receipt in order to restore functionality.
I would stay away from Pulse now that they've been bought by Maple Media, if you value your money.