Messages - SMS Text Message

Most replacement SMS apps offer a nicer layout and stop there. This one adds features that change how you use messages rather than just how they look. Scheduling is the most useful of them. Write a birthday message tonight and have it arrive at nine in the morning, send a reminder to a colleague at the start of their working day, or reply to something at a sensible hour instead of at two in the morning when you actually dealt with it. Archiving takes finished conversations out of the inbox without deleting them, which is the difference between an inbox you can read and a wall of old threads you scroll past forever. The archived messages stay searchable. The banking view is a quiet piece of good thinking. Financial and transaction messages now make up a large share of most inboxes, and they are simultaneously important and not worth mixing with conversations. Separating them means you can check a payment confirmation without wading past it every time you look for a message from a person. Beyond that it handles the full range of message types: SMS and MMS, photos, videos, GIFs, emoji, stickers, contact cards and audio clips, along with group chats. After-call features and per-thread customisation round it out, and it works on phones and tablets alike.