Messages: SMS Texting App

The best idea in this app is the one that addresses what inboxes have actually become. A modern SMS inbox is only partly conversation. The rest is one-time passcodes, payment confirmations, delivery updates and promotional offers, all arriving in the same list as messages from people you know. This app sorts them automatically into four categories: Personal, Transactions, OTPs and Offers. The effect is immediate. Personal shows only real conversations, so the message from your sister is not three screens below a shop's sale announcement. OTPs collects verification codes, which is exactly where you look when a website is waiting for one. Transactions keeps payment and delivery notices together for when you need to check what left your account. Offers holds the promotional traffic you can ignore until you want it, without deleting anything. Over twenty five million people use it. Beyond the sorting it covers what you expect: SMS and MMS, emoji and stickers, scheduled messages for birthdays and reminders, blocking of unwanted contacts, and backup and restore so years of messages survive a new phone. An AI assistant is included for help with drafting. The categorisation is what you will notice on the first day and appreciate on the hundredth.