Textra SMS

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.4
429K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Textra is an alternative to your stock SMS/MMS app (that came preinstalled on your phone). So, whether you're looking for a faster experience, better customization options, more color or just a specific feature (like scheduling a text in the future) you've come to the right place.

Feature rich, notably 180+ material design theme, bubble & app icon colors. Light, dark, black, night & android screen modes, multiple bubble styles, scheduled (future) SMS & MMS, send delay, slide to delete, slide to call, quick snap camera, multi-select picture gallery, quick reply SMS popup, awesome MMS GROUP messaging, quick voice memos, endless GIFs, 21 text sizes, multiple font options, message blocker / blocklisting, pin-to-top, automatic video & picture compression, support for iOS reactions, iOS emojis & heaps more!

Customize your preferred theme & bubble colors, signatures and notifications (icon shape, sound, privacy, reminders, and muting) per conversation as well.

Get all the latest Android, Twitter, JoyPixels & iOS style emojis including diversity (skin tone). Just pick your preferred emoji style and express yourself!

NEW: Added support for Reactions (also known as Tapbacks) received from iOS Apple devices. So, for example instead of seeing an incoming message saying: Loved "See you at 9pm", you'll now see a love heart emoji superimposed on the message you sent. Just like on iOS devices, Facebook Messenger etc. You can also send reactions!

NEW: Copy Partial Text tap a bubble to check out this great new feature that allows you to copy any part of the text in a bubble!

It's pretty special; try it, tell your friends, shout from the treetops, but most of all enjoy it.

Fully compatible with Pushbullet, MightyText, Android Wear and Android Auto (car) for enhanced notifications and quick reply.

All Textra features are free forever. Occasionally you'll see an ad, or you can choose to make a once only in-app purchase to remove ads forever.

Support, Knowledge Base & Feedback @ https://textra.uservoice.com

Simple. Beautiful. Fast.
Updated on
Dec 8, 2023

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
Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
427K reviews
Michael Miller
December 23, 2023
Update: Dropping a star. I am having trouble texting photos all of a sudden. I've done all the usual things. Stopped the app and cleared the cache. Uninstalling and reinstalling. Reset WiFi. It's not all the time but frustrating when it doesn't want to work. Great texting app. conversations can be customized easily. Only thing I would love to see added would be the ability to add or drop someone from a thread.
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Delicious
December 23, 2023
As your mobile carrier transits all messages this is likely an interim carrier issue. We are happy to help you figure out the cause if you can please reach out to help@textra.me. Thanks Michael.
A Google user
December 4, 2023
Updated review: Great app! For some reason, the texting app that came on my phone, stopped giving a notification tone. I was unable to find a way to fix it, so started searching for another. This one fit the bill. It works very well. After the free trial, I chose to keep the free version. the ads are VERY unobtrusive. I hardly notice them. UPDATE: I did end up purchasing the app. I really like it and wanted to support the company. I do have trouble sending pics lately. Any help on that?
39 people found this review helpful
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Delicious
December 4, 2023
Thanks for your kind review and downloading Textra SMS! We'll keep working on it!
Benjamin Dupont
December 19, 2023
I've been using this app in a love/hate scenario for years now. If anyone could do what the app does, without the multimedia issues, messages not arriving at their destination but only once in awhile so it's not annoying enough to change...I would be gone. The developers seem very responsive but there's always an issue. It doesn't just always work, every other day I'm looking up apps to switch to and then get frustrated and stick with this. It's pretty much the worst but can't find better.
28 people found this review helpful
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Delicious
December 19, 2023
As your mobile carrier transits all messages this is likely an interim carrier issue. We are happy to help you figure out the cause if you can please reach out to help@textra.me. Email received and responded to, thanks Benjamin.

What's new


✔ Compliance with latest Google target build, so Textra now has a target build of API 34 (Android 14).
✔ Bug fixes.