Pulse SMS (Phone/Tablet/Web)

Maple Media

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Want an SMS app that is fast, secure, and packed with all the features and customization you could want? Look no further.

Pulse SMS is a seriously beautiful, next-generation, private text messaging app.

We care deeply about your experience with the app, and are committed to creating the best SMS texting app.

To round out its best-in-class phone app, Pulse SMS re-imagines your communication by giving you the ability to sync your SMS and MMS messages across all of your devices. Send and receive texts and pictures—seamlessly—from your computer, tablet, car, or any device with an internet connection.

This is text messaging, done right.

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A Taste of the Features
Pulse SMS is jam packed with features. On top of syncing between all of your devices, here is a small taste of what makes it the ultimate text messaging experience:
- Unparalleled design and fluid animations
- Endless global and per-conversation customization options
- Suggested Smart Replies within conversations
- Password protected, private text conversations
- Share GIFs with your messages, from Giphy
- Powerful searching through messages and conversations
- Automatic message backup and restore with a Pulse SMS account*
- Preview web links
- Blacklist pesky spammers
- Delayed sending to give you time to edit or cancel messages you send
- Automated replies based on contacts, keywords, and driving/vacation modes
- Dual-SIM support

Encryption Protocol
First and foremost, all of your conversations are stored in end-to-end encryption. You never have to worry about your data leaking out and no one can see your messages except for you, not even the Pulse SMS Team! With Pulse SMS, you get privacy and peace of mind, right out of the box.

Privacy Protection Proof
In technical terms, we use PBKDF2 to encrypt your password and use it as a key to encrypt messages and conversations.

Technical Encryption Overview

1) When an account is created, we generate two salts. One to use with authentication and one for end-to-end encryption.

2) The one that we use with login is straight-forward and normal. We store a version of your password, hashed against the first salt, and authenticate you against this hash.

3) For the encryption, we hash your password against salt #2 and store it locally on your device (computer/tablet/phone). Having this key is the only way that you can decrypt messages. Since no one else has the password that was hashed against the second salt, no one else will be able to decrypt anything.

We share our privacy protocol publicly so our users have peace of mind knowing their password is never stored anywhere and without that password, there is no way to create the secret key used for encrypting and decrypting the content stored in the backend.

*Backups and registered user accounts for all users (free users, subscribers, one time purchases) are deleted after 60 days of inactivity.

Supported Platforms
Pulse SMS has a web app that you can use. It also has native apps for tablets, MacOS, Windows, Google Chrome, Firefox, Linux, and even Android TV. Check out all of our platforms, along with screenshots, here: https://home.pulsesms.app/overview/

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Pulse SMS is the premier web, computer, and private texting application on Android. Everything is instant, setup is a breeze, and it's design is unlike anything you have ever seen.

Helpful Links

Website: https://maplemedia.io/
Privacy Policy: https://maplemedia.io/privacy/
Support: [e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

It works pretty well but there are a few glitches that would be helpful to fix. 1) setting up group texts between multiple people in your contacts works well, but adding a manually entered phone number can be tricky. The only way it seems to accept it is if I put a semicolon after the number. 2) sometimes the text does not come through on the desktop until you refresh it

Overall, pretty all right. My only complaint is that when you start a text conversation with somebody, and then edit the name of that person (sometimes you learn somebody's last name after you've known him for a while), the name in the pulse app stays the same; it doesn't update your contact's name. The only workaround that I've found for this is to delete the conversation from your phone, update the contact, and then restart the conversation, and this time it will have the updated name.

I used Pulse because it was simple with no frills. Now, was forced to upgrade even though I had no issues with the original. New version adds unnecessary clutter that can't be turned off. Editing to add: Even worse. Now I'm getting a daily prompt to upgrade to a paid $100 version of this app to add features I don't want. This app is worthless now. I have uninstalled and moved on.

What’s new

A new version of Pulse SMS is here! Here’s what’s new:

Message Filters: Easily manage and block unwanted messages
Allowed Contacts: Decide who can send you messages
Automatic Message Cleanup: Set a custom schedule to remove old messages
Auto Replies: Edit your custom responses, plus turn them on/off

Thanks for using Pulse SMS! Have questions or feedback? Email us at [e-mail] for fast & friendly support.