signal-sms-mms-importer vs FairEmail

signal-sms-mms-importer

Import SMS and MMS into Signal Messenger (by alexlance)

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FairEmail

Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android (by M66B)

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signal-sms-mms-importer		FairEmail
	Project
5	Mentions	218
11	Stars	2,766
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	10.0
10 months ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Python	Language	Java
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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signal-sms-mms-importer

Posts with mentions or reviews of signal-sms-mms-importer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-18.

SMS removal will take place on March 18
3 projects | /r/signal | 18 Feb 2023

https://github.com/alexlance/signal-sms-mms-importer
SMS Removal Megathread
6 projects | /r/signal | 28 Oct 2022
"If you want to keep them ... export your SMS messages from Signal"
3 projects | /r/signal | 12 Oct 2022

As someone who has spent quite a few hours consolidating text messages into Signal, eg: https://github.com/alexlance/sms-mms-import-to-signal this is quite a disappointing change.
When will SMS and MMS import be re-introduced? This is what is keeping me from using signal
1 project | /r/signal | 30 Sep 2022
Import old sms and mms into Signal (the hard way)
1 project | /r/signal | 1 Jul 2022

FairEmail

Posts with mentions or reviews of FairEmail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

Email Apps
1 project | /r/androidapps | 10 Dec 2023
OpenPGP Forked into "LibrePGP" by GnuPG's Maintainer Werner Koch
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2023

I'm using FairEmail [0] as a client on Android which supports PGP and i am quite happy with it.
[0] https://email.faircode.eu/
⟳ 4 apps added, 39 updated at f-droid.org
16 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 5 Dec 2023

FairEmail (version 1.2134): Fully featured email client. Neat, intuitive user interface. Privacy friendly
⟳ 0 apps added, 11 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
4 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 5 Dec 2023

FairEmail (version 2134): FairEmail - Fully featured, open source, privacy oriented email app for Android
FairEmail development may cease due to Google 'security' requirements
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2023
All my Open Source App Alternatives
28 projects | /r/opensource | 30 Jul 2023

Email Client → FairEmail
Client suggestions
1 project | /r/fastmail | 1 Jul 2023
E-Mail Client
1 project | /r/GrapheneOS | 19 Jun 2023

Checkout FairEmail https://email.faircode.eu/
⟳ 1 apps added, 52 updated at f-droid.org
9 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 6 Jun 2023

FairEmail (version 1.2074): Fully featured email client. Neat, intuitive user interface. Privacy friendly
⟳ 0 apps added, 12 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
2 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 4 Jun 2023

FairEmail (version 2074): FairEmail - Fully featured, open source, privacy oriented email app for Android

What are some alternatives?

When comparing signal-sms-mms-importer and FairEmail you can also consider the following projects:

signalbackup-tools - Tool to work with Signal Backup files.

k-9 - K-9 Mail – Open Source Email App for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/thundernest/k-9]

email-oauth2-proxy - An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method.

thunderbird-android - K-9 Mail – Open Source Email App for Android

k9mail

webclient - Angular webclient (with Linux, macOS and Windows desktop clients) for CTemplar's encrypted email service.

Netguard - A simple way to block access to the internet per app

izzyondroid

Neo-Store - An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.

Mailspring - :love_letter: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.

koreader - An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

strongswan - strongSwan - IPsec-based VPN