New SMS App needed

Discussion in 'Survival Communications' started by JediWoodsman, Jun 13, 2026 at 14:32.


  1. JediWoodsman

    JediWoodsman Insomnia Monkey

    Hello Monkeys,
    For many reasons I have always been a Samsung fan. I just upgraded my personal phone (read unsecured) to the S26. I was disappointed to find that the Samsung "Message+" app was not on it. I was able to side load it and then life was good.
    Well now they are apparently discontinuing and disabling the app starting sometime in July. I keep getting messages where they highly recommend the Google Message app... I think you can all guess how I feel about that, even on my Civi phone.
    So, what app can y'all recommend, I just want something that will send SMS/MMS via cell network, quick, simple, clean. I don't need all my comms using the Google servers to get to where they need to go, I don't care about the RCS (I don't need to know if someone is "currently typing") and besides, my AO doesn't have 4G/5G everywhere anyway.
    I wish I could get all the people I need to chat with on something like Signal or the Proton Suite, but that is unrealistic.
    So... What do y'all got?

    -JW
     
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