QKSMS - Open Source SMS & MMS
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Remember when text messaging was like magic?
QKSMS brings a refreshingly beautiful and responsive Material Design touch to the stale state of text messaging. In a world with clunky SMS and MMS apps cluttered with bloat and ads, QKSMS is something to get excited about. We’re making texting magical again.
QKSMS is also fully open source!
Here’s why we think you’ll love it
• Material Design: And lots of it. QKSMS is the most beautiful text messenger available
• Themes: And nearly 200 of them available. Each one, hand picked by Google in the Material Design guidelines
• Night Mode: Like to have dark themes? So do we. Control it yourself, or turn on Automatic Night Mode and have night mode turned on automatically when it's dark out.
• Customization: It's your app. Make it yours!
• QK Reply: Reply to messages without having to leave what you're doing
• Group Messaging: So tell all your friends!
• MMS: For when words just aren't enough
• Delayed Messaging: Give yourself a second, make sure you said what you wanted to say!
• Android Wear: Full support for Android Wear, including customizable quick responses!
• Search: You care about your messages, so you should be able to find them. Now you can
• Security: QKSMS is protected against the Stagefright MMS exploit on Android
• Completely free: We also don't want to make you have to pay for extra features!
• Anything else you want: We work on QKSMS every single day, and we're always looking for feedback. Let us know if you have any suggestions!
If you'd like to view the source code, leave bug reports, or feature suggestions, visit https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms
QKSMS brings a refreshingly beautiful and responsive Material Design touch to the stale state of text messaging. In a world with clunky SMS and MMS apps cluttered with bloat and ads, QKSMS is something to get excited about. We’re making texting magical again.
QKSMS is also fully open source!
Here’s why we think you’ll love it
• Material Design: And lots of it. QKSMS is the most beautiful text messenger available
• Themes: And nearly 200 of them available. Each one, hand picked by Google in the Material Design guidelines
• Night Mode: Like to have dark themes? So do we. Control it yourself, or turn on Automatic Night Mode and have night mode turned on automatically when it's dark out.
• Customization: It's your app. Make it yours!
• QK Reply: Reply to messages without having to leave what you're doing
• Group Messaging: So tell all your friends!
• MMS: For when words just aren't enough
• Delayed Messaging: Give yourself a second, make sure you said what you wanted to say!
• Android Wear: Full support for Android Wear, including customizable quick responses!
• Search: You care about your messages, so you should be able to find them. Now you can
• Security: QKSMS is protected against the Stagefright MMS exploit on Android
• Completely free: We also don't want to make you have to pay for extra features!
• Anything else you want: We work on QKSMS every single day, and we're always looking for feedback. Let us know if you have any suggestions!
If you'd like to view the source code, leave bug reports, or feature suggestions, visit https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms
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9,272 total
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Toni M
I really like it but.... ..its an awesome messaging app I really like how far this app has come it's awesome and you can now change the text tone and color for each conversation which is awesome only thing left to do is but at least for an sent sound option. I mean even some the other crappier SMS apps have a sent sound so I mean might not be important to some ppl but it should an option. Please! I know it's not a big deal to most people but some people like having a sent sound and go back to the old qksms icon
When fixing again please... I would love for you to add on when you can see when your text gets delivered to someone and when they finally read it... Like how iPhone's have!!! You would get so many more customers because I hear a lot of android users wanting that.!!! Either like check marks to tell or "delivered and then Read/time"
Sameer Motiwala
Simple & Effective This app is simple to use, extremely good looking (adhere to material design), especially appearance settings are so easy to use. Does lack some high level customisation offered in other apps but not to worry as not used often. Icon needs some work as it should depict something on sms. QK compose is a superb feature who do lots of sms. Blocking & blacklisting needs development as not much effective. Best part is it doesn't have any ADS
sharon scott
It works! It is simple,doesn't take up space and it makes my phone run a lot smoother. Whatever the heck was going on with my phone when I got a msg was not working. The notification would lock up sometimes. I was getting texts much later than they were actually sent. So far so good. Thank you!
Nilesh Kumar
Good and light weight APP but needs improvement I am using the APP on Moto E3 POWER, though everything is working fine but I am unable to see old messages in the conversation. For example, at the home screen it is shown 11 messages in the conversation, but if I open the conversation I only get to see 4 messages. I have tried to search for options in setting but couldn't get anything. And second problem is that, the automatically delete option is only related to date, where as option should be their for count of messages also.
Roshad Smith
Best SMS App I don't normally write reviews but for this app, I made an exception. This app just works flawlessly. And the customizations options are pretty cool. For Example: if you don't like the white icon color, you can easily change it in the settings to another color. Kudos to the development team. Also, it's ad free!
User reviews
I really like it but.... ..its an awesome messaging app I really like how far this app has come it's awesome and you can now change the text tone and color for each conversation which is awesome only thing left to do is but at least for an sent sound option. I mean even some the other crappier SMS apps have a sent sound so I mean might not be important to some ppl but it should an option. Please! I know it's not a big deal to most people but some people like having a sent sound and go back to the old qksms icon
When fixing again please... I would love for you to add on when you can see when your text gets delivered to someone and when they finally read it... Like how iPhone's have!!! You would get so many more customers because I hear a lot of android users wanting that.!!! Either like check marks to tell or "delivered and then Read/time"
Simple & Effective This app is simple to use, extremely good looking (adhere to material design), especially appearance settings are so easy to use. Does lack some high level customisation offered in other apps but not to worry as not used often. Icon needs some work as it should depict something on sms. QK compose is a superb feature who do lots of sms. Blocking & blacklisting needs development as not much effective. Best part is it doesn't have any ADS
It works! It is simple,doesn't take up space and it makes my phone run a lot smoother. Whatever the heck was going on with my phone when I got a msg was not working. The notification would lock up sometimes. I was getting texts much later than they were actually sent. So far so good. Thank you!
Good and light weight APP but needs improvement I am using the APP on Moto E3 POWER, though everything is working fine but I am unable to see old messages in the conversation. For example, at the home screen it is shown 11 messages in the conversation, but if I open the conversation I only get to see 4 messages. I have tried to search for options in setting but couldn't get anything. And second problem is that, the automatically delete option is only related to date, where as option should be their for count of messages also.
Best SMS App I don't normally write reviews but for this app, I made an exception. This app just works flawlessly. And the customizations options are pretty cool. For Example: if you don't like the white icon color, you can easily change it in the settings to another color. Kudos to the development team. Also, it's ad free!
Attractive, useful SMS default replacement. This app offers your choice of background colors, delivery confirmation, access to send from notification bar, works with "Should I Answer?" and is ad free. You may donate, if you like, through the app. Unfortunately, MMS does not work on my Moto G because my SIM shows multiple APN's, none of which is my phone company. I have sent QK messages to clear this up. But ironically, they do not receive my messages!
The app used to be fast when I first installed it last year. But now it is sluggish and I often have to wait for it to open my conversation from a notification. Temporal and ancestral navigation is still not fixed since my last feedback. Also can't attach pictures from camera, but it worked before.
Would give it more stars, but I do not like how there is no way to resize the modal pop-up window. It appears the same size as the message which can cause the window size to vary. If there was a way for me to set height & width of the modal pop up would easily get 5 stars.
Add a way to schedule messages and it's perfect! I love the home screen and everything about it. The customization options for each contact, with changing the color of individual conversation, and option to change text and call sounds right from the conversation window. You guys are the bomb! And yeah, I would love the addition of Scheduled Measages
Great app with alot of awesome customization! However notifications sometimes get stuck on one text and won't let you interact. This is kinda annoying. Also when hitting the home button it takes me to my launcher menu instead of my homepage. Great App tho and I still use it as my default app
great looking app, unfortunately it reliably crashes when using more than 2 programs at once and opening. for example if Pandora and jefit are being used and I open qksms it quits both Pandora and jefit. definitely needs to be fixed before I can keep using it. doesn't happen on any other texting apps I have ever used.
Though my settings are right, and though my MMS are delivered withing my stock messagging app,. this app can't send the same MMS that my stock app does delivered. Without this issue I would give it 3 stars and be happy to pay for it. Other fault: There are not enough options for the start button colors to choose from, no aligment to the right for RTL languages, missing dual sim support, no option for different coloring for each contact, no way to view the network settings instalation messages.
Great app with one flaw App works great except when you receive SMS from eg. your provider (the one that you cant reply), then it will crash if I tap on icon (try to open contact details). Another issue is that you cant block that either (it dissapears, but on next app opening it shows up again).
Eliminate the notification pop-up I loved this app as a replacement to my stock LG G5 texting app. However, there does not seem to be an option to disable the notification pop-ups. This is my first non-Samsung phone since the S1, so adjusting to a new phone has proven to be very difficult. All I need is an all-black theme and background in order to save battery power (which this app does have), and non-intrusive notifications without pop-ups in my face, the latter of which has failed miserably. Add this option, and I will be one HAPPY user!
Looks great, night theme is legit. +1 for mark unread. But it's slow and the back button doesn't go back to the conversations list reliably so it's pretty annoying to use. After using for a couple months, it's super slow and often doesn't respond correctly. It's gotten really frustrating
So far love it! Fits onto my compact screen (mere 4.6in) with ease. No excess clutter with countless links to emojis, videos, etc. You can even disable the avatars for less clutter. Love the color and notification customization. This is the simplicity I've been searching for!
Love it Great look and features, and it's fast and responsive. A bit buggy though - as someone mentioned below, the app breaks the home button... it sends me to add/remove pages rather than to my desktop. Android 7.0
Great app, but one hiccup. I can't seem to get rid of the unread messages badge. It keeps increasing its value, although I have read all my messages already. Any dev feedback would be greatly appreciated My phone is an unlocked ASUS_Z00AD running on AT&T 4G LTE
I really want to give it 5 stars but.. I've had this app a week and I was really enjoying it. Untill I found out that my messages weren't going through. Then I started getting sending errors and even resend errors. Not sending the text is a deal breaker for me. YOU HAD 1 JOB, CARL!
Have been looking for a new long term messaging app after getting sick of GoSmS making a pigs ear of their once mighty application. With QKSms, I think I've finally found it. Clean, simple with just about the right amount of user mods. Slight glitch in that it freezes.
Good but bad The app is always unresponsive and freezes our fist out crashes. It does one of the 3 on average about every 4 days. I have officially begun trying out for a new app now
Need more work Really like it. Clean design, smooth and fast. But one issue I have is when someone text me with two different phone numbers, it won't just show me the contact names. It would just show one with the name and one with phone number. Weird. I don't see that in other apps. Pls fix it. Other than that it's pretty cool. Highly recommended.
Sending pictures is quite limited. Other intents allow me to send pics from Dropbox, and default Messaging app lets me attach maps, videos, voice recordings, contacts, etc. I lose all of that functionality. Plus, how do I attach something after I've already started typing?
Download this app because I was looking for search ability. Very disappointing, search all conversations then dumps you at the end. I already knew what conversation, so I'm still stuck manually going through 3000 messages. I've uninstalled.
Buggy Would be great if it wasn't so buggy. Immediately found: Every time pressing back (with hardware button or in-app) the Android running apps list is shown for half a second. Crashed when I said OK to setup MMS dialog. No scrollbars except in settings. Settings randomly changes the state of other toggles when you change one (although exiting and entering settings fixes this - is not actually changing other settings, jusr very confusing). Briefly turned on data even though I had WiFi on. I'm on Android 4.4.2.
Love at first sight. I was looking for an app to replace my stock sms app. Messenger by Google was nice but too simple and lacked customization. There is a small glitch in menu I noticed when toggling options some other switches appear to move. Also some options appear to be 'on' but are greyed out.
Here's the thing. This app looks beautiful. I really wanted to be able to use it. Sadly, it's got some issues with slowness. I use a OnePlus 3T and have no problems with other apps but this one is slow to open and laggy to send. I want to like it, and it seems the developers are invested in it, so hopefully I can come back to it in the future.
So far so good Downloaded but just a few hours ago, title says it all. Will update if this changes. Very nice, smooth app. More bubble settings would be nice, but not a big deal, so if you guys decide to change that, definite 5⭐
I love it! However, it is kinda time consuming when you click the back button and the homescreen would somehow display. I thought the app crashed. And also, in the conversation, the messages take up the whole screen, is that really necessary? Well, anyways. The app is absolutely almost perfect for text messaging. Good job!
Great other than group messaging. Reloads all the messages in the group message every time a new one comes in. Makes group texting almost impossible. Slows the phone down horribly when receiving group texts
Keep freezing all the time. A lot of bugs inside thapp, it's more frustrating than anything else. Love the fact that it is linked to "Should I answer" application!
Sending So when you want to write a text, you have to manually type out their phone number. Why can't I select it from contact list? Wow what a design, or am I missing anything.
Moez Bhatti September 9, 2016
If you start typing a contact's name, it should suggest people from your contacts. Then you can just click on one, and their phone number will be selected Would make it five but.. I have an issue with my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge when I make this app the default messages app I still get the message symbol on my always on page saying I have 1 new message when I don't. Fix this and it's a full five from me as otherwise perfect.
It works great most of the time and has features that I want in a SMS app but apparently there is a memory leak issue. Once or twice a day it has to be force stopped and restarted or the phone becomes sluggish. After restarting it the phone is fine for 12 to 20 hours.. installed on a Samsung S5. Fix that issue and I'd give it 5 plus stars.
I love this app in every single way except one thing. When I tap one the app it does not always open with the first tap. When it does work it takes 1-2 seconds before it opens. It makes my phone feel slow even though all my other apps launch instantly.
Buggy and annoying glitches The MMS stopped working shortly after installing the app. Countless bugs and glitches prevented me from truly liking this app. Maybe in a few years it will working perfectly, but for now I'd recommend steering clear of this app and find something else or sticking to the default on your phone. I feel like usage reports should be used to see how glitchy this app is, because the developers don't seem to be working on the problems (used for two months with always the same bugs and glitches).
Awesome This app really "does make you love texting again..."😉 Very satisfied. I have used voice to text for years now bc lg's messaging app is so mundane.
Group messages are buggy I really like this app. Everything about it is great. But I've had so many problems with group messages the last few days I had to stop using it. I've had contact names/pictures not show up, duplicate messages, and messages showing up out of order. Also, Yappy integration seems to be semi broken. Messages don't always get marked as read and this app doesn't have full MMS integration with Yappy. Please fix this as I'd love to keep using this as my texting app.
No MMS I have to send MMS messages SEVERAL times. Group messages sometimes do not come through. I have to uninstall this app in order for things to sync and work. I do enjoy the premise of this app. I'll go back to Textra however if the issue is not fixed.
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What's New
2.7.3
September 5, 2016
- Fixed issue with messages being broken up into random lines
- QKSMS bar in recent apps section will now match the theme color on Lollipop
- Fixed issue where MMS could not be attached from Compose screen
Additional information
Updated
September 5, 2016
Installs
100,000 - 500,000
Current Version
2.7.3
Requires Android
4.0.3 and up
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In-app Products
€1.09 - €10.94 per item
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