airmessage-web VS airmessage-android

What I do is have a Mac Mini acting as a server and run Airmessage on it, you can access your iMessages via a webpage on any device: https://web.airmessage.org/

If you have a mac in your house, you can install BlueBubbles on it and give yourself nearly full iMessage capabilities on any non-Apple device. AirMessage a a simpler but less featureful alternative. My wife and I have ours set up on a mac mini and can happily use any device we want without facing the ire of friends and family - as long as you add your email address instead of your phone number to conversations.

When I launched web.airmessage.org and signed in with MS Edge, it said "hey theres a windows app for this on the store, do you want to download it?" And I did, and its great! In my case both the web interface and the app show conversations that Im not sure how to delete, and yet they have been deleted on my iphone. They are spam texts

I use AirMessage for this. I installed the server app on an old iMac I have, and open a tab on my Windows computer pointed to web.airmessage.org

should I set this in web.airmessage.org ? i can't find Settings here. neither in AirMessage server.

Everything is working, except for one thing. I cannot seem to get AirMesssage For Web (web.airmessage.org) to work on my iPad and/or iPhone. What happens is that when I go to that URL, it loads the website with the "Sign In To Google" button. Sometimes when I click on the button, nothing happens. Sometimes when I click on the button, it brings up the Google Accounts chooser, but then when I click on the account that is connected to AirMessage, it just brings me back to the AirMessage For Web page with the "Sign In To Google" button again. It never loads up my iMessages and keeps me in a sign-in loop.

Why it's not flawless: Occasionally the Android app doesn't want to connect to the server for whatever reason, but in that case I just go to web.airmessage.org and text from there using my phone's web browser. It usually resolves itself in the app within a few minutes, Sometimes the app doesn't want to send/download pictures/videos as well. For that, I use the same workaround as before and just use the web text service. I have never had a situation where I wasn't able to get a message out through either the app or the website. I only have to manually fix the server maybe 2-5 times a year when the computer crashes or a power-outage occurs.

Way easier to just run it in a browser https://web.airmessage.org/

Hey guys! My web.airmessage.org is bugging out. it wont save any new messages, and when i refresh the page, it just reverts back to "yesterday morning". doesn't download any new messages.

Please bare with me while I try to get this resolved. For now, if you want to download AirMessage, you can grab the latest APK from here.

For imessage you could take a look at this: https://github.com/airmessage/airmessage-android. It's a foss imessage client for android that also has a web interface. I dont use it so i dont know how well it works but it looks promising.

AirMessage (version 3.5.1): Use iMessage on your Android phone! (Mac computer required)

I have made a GitHub ticket requesting this, and Tagavari has made a fully open source FOSS branch, though it hasn't been updated since October.

By this point the beta should have kicked in, but you can get the APK here: https://github.com/airmessage/airmessage-android/releases

However, there is a GitHub ticket open that is asking for this, and there is a FOSS branch, though it hasn't been updated in over seven months.

Download the latest AirMessage.apk installation file from the AirMessage GitHub (under Assets) onto your computer; move it to the MADB /apps folder at C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot\apps (in Windows).

Great suggestion OP. I opened a GitHub ticket here that links to your post.

Yes, AirMessage is actively updated. You can see the update history for the Android app here and the sever here.

However, I understand that some users want more control over their data. As such, I'm preparing to bring the same end-to-end encryption that AirMessage uses for direct connections to AirMessage Cloud. I hope to be launching this feature shortly, though for the time being, you may inspect its implementation on the connect-encrypt branch of the server, Android app, and web app, or compile and run it yourself!