Chomp SMS is an alternative texting app built by the same team responsible for Textra SMS. Much of the same DNA can be found here, ranging from in-app customization options, a send delay function ...

An upgrade over your standard texting application, Textra SMS spruces up your texting experience with a new, slick, intuitive interface. Users can set the app as their default SMS, with the ...

Most important, text-messaging apps use your cellphone number. Mobile-messaging apps use a user name or a phone number generated by the service, which means you’ll have two mobile numbers.

The Messages app in iOS 26 is getting some useful upgrades. Apple has introduced better spam filtering for everyone, live translation, and finally, custom backgrounds.

There's also a world of alternative Android texting apps that haven't yet been given access to RCS texting. It amounts to a lot of devices, services and apps that are still using SMS.

The text-messaging app has always been the most-used app on my phone. It’s fun and efficient, and it’s often a quicker way to get a response than sending an email or making a phone call.

It’s always a bummer when your preferred app shuts down, but this won’t leave much of a gap in the market. As mentioned, Google Messages is well on its way to becoming the default, go-to app ...

According to Verizon, your text history will remain in your device’s local storage and should be viewable via any compatible replacement messaging app.

RALEIGH – Attempting to cash in on the explosive growth of Microsoft’s collaboration suite Teams, Raleigh-based Bandwidth is rolling out a new app it says “brings texting to Teams.” ...