With simple messager selling out & qksms no longer being actively worked on. What’s our options for open source sms messagers?
Should I dedicate time to learning flutter and building my own or does anyone know any cool foss projects working on this issue?
I use QUIK. It’s pretty minimalist and quite nice to use.
QUIK is a fork of QKSMS but updated. Partison SMS is another fork
Where can these be found?
Both can be found in GitHub. I use Obtainium to get QUIK releases.
obtainuim looks really useful for keeping these updated, but is there a reason they aren’t just on f-droid? until now I thought that was considered the norm or standard for open source android apps
F-Droid either requires app developers to set up their own repository (and point users to them) or to follow the F-Droid repo rules (the F-Droid devs compile and sign your app, not you)
Thank you
Yeah
There’s no privacy in SMS messaging anyway. I use the messages app from AOSP. A little ugly but it works just fine.
Partisan-SMS 100%. P-SMS is a security/privacy focused fork of QKSMS.
does Partisan-SMS function as a basic sms messager without encryption?
Yes it does, it works with or without encryption
The simplemobiletools apps are being forked by one of their bigger co-developers, so I’ll just use that as soon as it’s available.
Until then, as long as you got the build from F-Droid, there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.
link to the new fork
Qksms is dead? That’s a bummer I was quite happy with it after signal stopped being a great SMS app for some reason.
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I’m happy with my version of simple messenger, I’ve not updated it for a while… Am I good to keep using that? Can you explain more what you mean by selling out?
The lead dev sold simplemobiletools to Zippo Apps (or whatever they’re called), a company known for buying apps and stuffing them full of ads, trackers and bullying people into buying subscriptions.
That news came a bit out of the blue, and while I understand why he sold it, the fact that he sold it to such a fuckface company that goes against everything his apps stood for is… yeah
That’s very disappointing to hear. I’ve upgraded to the latest Fdroid version, and I guess that is where the updates will end!
One of the developers is forking the whole project.
What an absolute legend!
If you’re looking for it - https://github.com/FossifyOrg
Thanks :)
There’s just no point in developing an app for a dead service. Just use the AOSP messaging app when you need.
I’m using this ohne after Signal dropped SMS support
That is the one selling out. All “simple” tools where sold to an ad firm, the f-droid version is probably fine for now but if you got it from Google play : run.
https://www.androidauthority.com/simple-mobile-tools-acquisition-3391041/
Didn’t notice, thx.
That’s simple mobile tools, which op was referring to as the sellouts.
I have switched my comunications to anything else. XMPP, Matrix, Session, Jami, etc. I text as little as I can. No matter the app the messages still go to my carrier.