QKSMS

Moez Bhatti

In-app purchases

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/

Ratings and reviews

QKSMS recently has been having issues sending and receiving messages, especially pictures. I reached out to the developer but he never responded. It's a simple messenger. It does not send or receive audio messages. It does not have the ability to send or receive some images. It definitely cannot send videos. Links to other apps or to news articles do not have previews. I liked it because it worked enough to do the minimum. Unfortunately, it needs updating.

I have no problems with this app. However, my wife only gets about 70% of the messages sent to her. It appears completely random. Sometimes she'll get them from specific people, other times she won't. Sometimes she'll get pictures, sometimes she won't. Posting the problem on the dev site hasn't resulted in any acknowledgement, let alone a fix. She isn't the only one with the problem. We're looking for a reliable texting solution.

UPDATE: Since my initial review, I've discovered that this app cannot send pictures, no matter what compression setting I choose. I'm on Verizon, so I doubt this is a carrier issue. Really disappointed, but I guess I can just use another app to do that. Really inconvenient though. Almost perfect. Does everything it's supposed to. I just wish you could customize the theme more, like changing the colors of the sent and received bubbles overall, like you can in other apps like Textra.

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