Forward and Sync SMS

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About this app

Forward and Backup SMS automatically forwards incoming SMS messages to Email, Telegram, or your secure cloud account for real-time access across all your devices.

The app uses a foreground service to ensure reliable, instant SMS forwarding. This foreground service runs only when SMS forwarding is enabled by the user and displays a persistent notification indicating that SMS forwarding is active.

Why foreground service is required:

The foreground service ensures that incoming SMS messages are processed and forwarded immediately, even when the app is not open. Without the foreground service, Android may stop or delay message processing, causing missed or delayed forwarding.

The foreground service:

Is started only after the user enables SMS forwarding in app settings

Shows a visible notification while active

Can be stopped anytime by the user from the app or notification

Runs only while forwarding is enabled

Is essential to provide reliable real-time SMS forwarding

Required permissions:

RECEIVE_SMS — Detect incoming SMS messages for forwarding

FOREGROUND_SERVICE_REMOTE_MESSAGING — Enables real-time SMS forwarding using a foreground service

POST_NOTIFICATIONS — Displays status notifications so the user knows forwarding is active

RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED — Restores forwarding after device restart, if enabled by user

Data usage and privacy:

SMS messages are used only for forwarding to destinations configured by the user

Messages are transmitted securely to https://sms2mail.net
only to enable delivery to Email or Telegram

No messages are shared, sold, or used for advertising

The app does not collect contacts or unrelated personal data

User control and transparency:

SMS forwarding must be explicitly enabled by the user

A persistent notification clearly indicates when forwarding is active

Users can stop forwarding at any time

The foreground service runs only when necessary

Privacy Policy:
https://sms2mail.net/private_policy_sms2web.htm

Ratings and reviews

Really impressed that there is a free app to do this. It works incredibly well. There is a paid feature to disable ads and, I think, give you unlimited texts to emails, but I can't find out if there is a limit and if that cost is a subscription or one time fee. Regardless, works well and very happy.

Does what I need which is the cloud share. I don't want it to send emails, so I haven't tested that. I saw in other reviews that emails are slowish, but the cloud thing is near instant. The cloud page is very simple, so it doesn't appear to drain airtime. A lot of ads, but that's OK. My only beef is that the filter only does numbers. Facebook SMSs, for example, is never shown as from a number. On the app page where you can add number filters, it says there are more filter options on the cloud - but I can't find them. Maybe that is a "To Do"? |For now, it is easy to delete onse I don't want on the cloud. It is Russian, which means it may get blocked (hope not), but I commend it for being straight forward. I cannot stand timewasters like "Automatically forward SMS to your PC/phone" (red icon with green arrow) which stops working after a month and demands money if you use a filter.

Well it works. I downloaded it and configured it to forward my sms to email and I disabled the option to upload to the cloud. I'm a little concerned about security and whether or not my sms is being captured or tracked by this app. Who knows, but it definitely works exactly like I wanted.

What’s new

Code cleanup, stability improvements