Simple-SMS-Messenger
An easy and quick way of managing SMS and MMS messages without ads. (by SimpleMobileTools)
| Simple-SMS-Messenger | fdroidclient | |
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| 21 | 56 | |
| 580 | - | |
| 1.6% | - | |
| 8.4 | - | |
| 5 days ago | - | |
| Kotlin | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Simple-SMS-Messenger
Posts with mentions or reviews of Simple-SMS-Messenger.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-28.
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Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans
Check out Simple SMS Messenger[1], been using it since Signal dropped SMS support.
[1]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.smsmes...
[2]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.thanky...
[3]: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-SMS-Messenger
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Recovering from saved sqlite database
I accidentally my whole phone. I do have a Titanium Backup of Simple SMS Messenger, from which I can extract the conversations.db. However, when I launch the app, it replaces the conversations. I do not have an export. I would like a method of merging / importing the old conversations from the database. I'm techy and can write SQL, Python, etc. I've had a quick look at the exporter to see if I can replicate the JSON format of the exported conversations. But I thought I might ask in case anyone here has already solved this or has better advice. Cheers!
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Finally ditched almost all proprietary apps and hosted my own home server for media streaming and files/photo sharing. (Still using WhatsApp, Classroom and some food ordering apps though)
For SMS -> https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-SMS-Messenger
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All my Open Source App Alternatives
SMS → Simple SMS
- Signal Alternative
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⟳ 1 apps added, 30 updated at f-droid.org
Simple SMS Messenger (version 5.16.1): SMS messaging and MMS messaging app for Android, send messages fast, nice UI
- FOSS SMS app compatible with Material You
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[Summary] Looking for a FOSS SMS Android app with RCS support r/fdroid
There is an open-source implementation of an RCS stack that these apps (QKSMS and Simple SMS) might be able to use.
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Signal Replacement
I wasn't impressed with Simple SMS, the devs are a bit slow to fix issues such as the one i reported.
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Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
I take about sms app...QKSMS (https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms) seems dead...But there is an active fork, PartisanSMS (https://github.com/wrwrabbit/Partisan-SMS), cons : it's not on f-droid...Simple SMS (https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-SMS-Messenger/) not a huge fan of Simple apps... but on f-droid.Sad about all of this... It was a pro to migrate some people...
fdroidclient
Posts with mentions or reviews of fdroidclient.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-28.
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An alternative to Big Tech, your new open-source mobile ecosystem
F-Droid Basic, a cut down version of the official F-Droid client, supports the Android 12+ unattended app updates [1]. This allows for a store to update apps without user confirmation (if it was the store which installed (or updated?) the app originally) [2].
[1] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/merge_requests/1216
[2] https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-alternative-app-st...
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F-Droid: Android FOSS app store
This is the discussion on implementing a popcon-style feature in F-Droid if you want to read through where the project got to: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/396
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First fully commercial, paid app requiring a key to function at all in main F-Droid repo! (Or is a free ad for the app?)
Meanwhile, the Latest tab "highlights good descriptions" (meaning in other words that it "hides" apps not meeting certain metadata criteria, even if they're completely free - as in speech and in beer - apps), which was not free of some irony, and was discussed at length with apparent consensus to change it but then every time it was back to square one. Because "Latest" apparently doesn't mean "Latest" and people don't get the nuances of English. Not kidding. Read the issue.
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# of app downloads
Basically, not at present, I think. It's happened for some time, and for a longer time in the past, it's been discussed multiple times, but I don't think right now there's any effort in this direction.
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⟳ 0 apps added, 1 updated at f-droid.org
F-Droid (version 1.16.3): The app store that respects freedom and privacy
- Receiving message when attempting to update repository
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All my Open Source App Alternatives
Play Store → Aurora Store, Fdroid, Neo Store
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is this normal when installing Fdroid?
Yep, that is the hard part: - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1440 - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2037 - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2145
- New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates
- f-droid seems to have stopped working on grapheneos
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Simple-SMS-Messenger and fdroidclient you can also consider the following projects:
QKSMS - The most beautiful SMS messenger for Android
Neo-Store - An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.
matrix-sms-bridge - Matrix bridge, that allows you to bridge matrix rooms to SMS with one telephone number only.
jellyfin-android - Android Client for Jellyfin
koler - Just a phone app.
droidVNC-NG - VNC server app for Android that does not require root privileges.
Partisan-SMS - Encrypted SMS messenger for Android
client - F-Droid client with Material UI.
android - Android application to receive notifications
Aurora - Non-official Library Genesis (Libgen) Android mobile client.
grocy-android - ERP beyond your fridge, now on your phone – An awesome companion app for grocy
andOTP - [Unmaintained] Open source two-factor authentication for Android
Simple-SMS-Messenger vs QKSMS
fdroidclient vs Neo-Store
Simple-SMS-Messenger vs matrix-sms-bridge
fdroidclient vs jellyfin-android
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fdroidclient vs droidVNC-NG
Simple-SMS-Messenger vs Partisan-SMS
fdroidclient vs client
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fdroidclient vs Aurora
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