BIG SMS for Seniors

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About this app

Messaging editor with large fonts

💬 large font and different colors used to display the message thread.
✉️ reply easily to any message with the easy to use SMS editor.
🔔 optional full-screen SMS notifications allow you to rapidly call back or reply to the message (not available on Android 10 or higher)
🚫 please note that multimedia messages (MMS) are not supported

📦 BIG Apps Suite
Simple apps for seniors and people with vision problems.

🔹 Android 10 and Android Go compatible
🔹 100% accessible
🔹 high contrast color schemes and three different font sizes allow you to use your phone without glasses.
🔹 additional color themes and icon packs are available for download
🔹 extended support for Talkback screen reader allows legally blind users to use their phone with ease and confidence
🔹 all the apps can also be controlled by a hardware keyboard or via the Tecla wheelchair interface, enabling users with paralysis to have full and precise control of the smartphone without touching the screen.
🔹 compatible with Android 2.2 or higher. BIG SMS requires Android 4.4 or higher

🔸 BIG Launcher - Your new home screen
🔸 BIG Phone - Easy to use phone and contacts
🔸 BIG SMS - Messaging editor with large fonts
🔸 BIG Alarm - Alarm as simple as possible
🔸 BIG Notifications - Make all the Android notifications really big

🆓 BIG SMS free version limitations
- only 5 most recent message threads are visible
- after 20 SMS sent a link to biglauncher.com is appended to every SMS

🤔 Questions? Problems?
See the help and video tutorials.
Visit www.biglauncher.com

🌟 Winner of the Vodafone Smart Accesibility Awards
🌏 69 languages: Afrikaans, Shqip, አማርኛ, العربية, հայերէն, Azərbaycan dili, বাংলা, български, မြန်မာစာ, Català, 简体中文, 繁體中文, hrvatski, česky, dansk, nederlands, english, eesti, Filipino, suomi, français, Galego, ქართული, deutsch, ελληνικά, ગુજરાતી, halshen hausa, עברית, हिन्दी, magyar, bahasa indonesia, italiano, 日本語, basa jawa, ಕನ್ನಡ, 한국어, Kurdî, latviešu, lietuvių, मैथिली, bahasa melayu, मराठी, norsk, ଓଡ଼ିଆ, فارسی, polski, português, português brasileiro, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پن٘جابی, română, русский, српски, srpski, سنڌي, slovenčina, slovenščina, español, svenska, Tagalog, தமிழ், తెలుగు, ภาษาไทย, türkçe, українська мова, اُردُو, Oʻzbekcha, tiếng việt, Yorùbá

Ratings and reviews

Overall great. I'm using this on an android flip phone since it's the one that uses the dpad the best and has an interface that mimics a dumb phone the best. The only issue is that it doesn't do any MMS or group messages. It is the only thing stopping me from keeping it as my main SMS app. It would be perfect if it did. The developer seems to have spent 4 years saying no to MMS support, despite the user feedback. So take that large grain of salt when using this app.

Love this app. Gave it to elderly parents to & they love it. Price is great. How would I improve it? 1. Add smaller fonts for mainstream - even I would use it (50). Increase your customer potential - I would love simple messaging app with bigger fonts. But the default font is too big for me. 2. Support most languages. 3. Make sure it fully works on most phones. 4. Support RCS? Don't know if possible. Good luck & Thank you!

terrible handling of messages containing pictures. accessing the pics requires far too much clicking through menu items for an old person to keep track of. and yes, i know sms isn't mms, but pics are so much a part of messaging now that the app is worthless without better handling of them. also, the entire "big" app suite suffers from having to use its "big" clunky interface to configure it. see, if one could configure this particular kind of app, one wouldn't *need* it in the first place.

What’s new

Set targetSDK=35 (Android 15) and fix what it needs:
+ added empty padding to screen under bars because A15's Edge to edge functionality
+ added full screen permission request to messages list
* fixed rare crash on Motorola Potter when black navigation bar is enabled
- removed all components for old and legacy preferences