Textra SMS

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Contains adsIn-app purchases

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 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.

Ratings and reviews

The simplicity of Textra is its strong point. However, it has so many features, if you know they are there. It is so well organized that you might miss several things but once you find them you love them. However I wish I could mark a message as read by long-pressing or save my settings (you couldn't, then could, not can't again). Love the KEEP feature for saving important messages or even just notes. Awesome support as well.

Edit: it's April 2021 and I still love this app. EDIT: 2026... obviously I have been using this app for many years and have never had any issues. But suddenly the majority of my texts won't go through. Since I use it heavily for work, that is a huge issue. Last week it got so bad that I had to switch to Google messages which I absolutely hate. I don't know if Google, T-Mobile and Textra are having a personal fight but please get it fixed and let me know so I can switch back!

Edit from old 5* review: Unfortunately this app has kind of fallen off. I fully cannot clear the unread notif from certain convos no matter what and that's a bit essential to the nature of a text app. I'm using an app with less customization rn because at least I can open it and know, for sure, which convos have unread messages. It even happens with contacts where the thread was deleted. Text them again and bam, unread notif. It's maddening.

What’s new

✔ Added support for the latest (Unicode 17) emojis for Android, iOS and Joypixel styles.
✔ Improved Scheduled Message feature.
✔ Bug fixes (including audio ad issue).