A little over a year ago I was fortunate to make it onto the beta testing team for Beeper. TL;DR Beeper is a unified chat application (i.e. all major chat applications, including SMS, in one app). Beeper recently announced that their basic service is now free https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-is-now-free. However, they will be slowly working their way through a wait list. The convenience of this service can’t be understated. Also, encrypted services such as Signal are supported. Just go to https://www.beeper.com/ and click the ‘Get started’ button to join the wait list.
- Hirom ( @Hirom@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
Signal seems to be going in the opposite direction and announced the end of SMS support because of the lack of SMS security https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/
Meanwhile Google is pushing RCS hard https://www.androidcentral.com/google-evolve-android-messages-chat-using-rcs-shelve-allo
Looks like everyone wants SMS to die but there isn’t a consensus on a replacement. So I can see the use for an unified chat app. Not sure about SMS support however.
- noodlejetski ( @noodlejetski@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
from the Play Store screenshots, it looks like it still sorts messages from different services into different tabs, doesn’t it?
I miss Disa. it uses to let you use SMS, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp (and I think Telegram?), and you could merge conversations at will, which means that you could get all messages from a contact in one conversation view, regardless of the service it came through.
- Helix 🧬 ( @Helix@feddit.de ) English2•1 year ago
I want it to have MS Teams integration, I’d even pay 😩
They may be planning on this in the future.
- petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 2•1 year ago
@admin are they also planing to add XMPP?
I don’t know. You could try asking them at https://www.reddit.com/r/beeper/
- petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 2•1 year ago
@admin Thanks!