QKSMS

In-app purchases
3.9
18.1K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

We’re making texting magical again. QKSMS is the most beautiful messaging experience you’ve ever used. Replace your stock messaging app and fall in love with texting all over again.

QKSMS is also completely ad-free and open source, the way your messaging app should be.

New: Dual-SIM and Multi-SIM phones are now fully supported by QKSMS!

Clean
A beautiful, intuitive, and clutter-free design that allows you to focus on what matters.

Customizable
Use any of the millions of colors to theme the entire app, or any particular conversation. Per-contact notifications allow you to easily prioritize and distinguish your messages. Manual and automatic night mode are great too.

Powerful
Use MMS to share photos, stickers, or join your friends in a group chat. Conversation search allows you to find things easier than ever.

Safe
Easily Back up and Restore your messages, all without having to install another app.

Private
Easily block conversations and manage your blacklist, or automatically filter out spam with Should I Answer? integration.

Convenient
Reply to your messages from anywhere using the QK Reply popup, your Wear OS (Android Wear) watch, or directly from your notification shade (Android 7.0+)

Accessibility
High contrast black theme, and full support for TalkBack and Samsung Voice Assistant.

We love hearing what you have to say, so always feel free to let us know whenever you have any feedback or suggestions!

If you'd like to view the QKSMS source code, it's available on Github: https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms/
Updated on
Feb 23, 2021

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
App activity and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.9
18K reviews
Joël Lafond-Favieres
June 28, 2025
Best, no gimmicks, text app. I really don't like the one that comes with all Android phones. It plain sucks! I've got a Samsung phone - theirs isn't any better. The one I liked more than this one is no longer supported - Verizon Messages. That one was feature heavy without them getting in the way of the natural function and purpose of texting. If you like straight forward, reliable, time tested apps - QKSMS is a must have Android app.
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Donald LeHue
April 2, 2025
This is generally a good app, but it's inability to send images or gifs without badly compressing them (especially gifs) is frustrating enough that it's time to move on. It's disappointing that nothing seems to work, and previous comments by the dev is just to try a smaller image (more compression) which is the whole problem. I understand there are sms and MMS limitations, but when other messaging apps work well, the only issue seems to be the app.
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Adder McCoy
December 13, 2022
I really like the message you get for the status of the sent message. "Delivered" Problem is, it's NOT delivered. And that usually won't happen from 5-15 minutes. If at All. Sent messages that still haven't been received days later. Other than that (friends not receiving messages) everything appears to work. (Except for why I installed the messaging app for in the first place. To send messages..
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What’s new

New in QKSMS!

Added
- Auto-delete old messages
- Block/archive messages from notification
- Swipe to block conversation
- Share vCard from other apps

Improved
- Better visibility for conversations with drafts
- Trim whitespace when searching
- Clean up contact group UI

Fixed
- Incorrect selection state when picking contact phone number
- "View more conversations" button on widget broken

For the detailed changelog, please visit
https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms/releases