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?
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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
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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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
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There’s just no point in developing an app for a dead service. Just use the AOSP messaging app when you need.
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 :)
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.
That’s the app OP is talking about ‘selling out’ to advertisers.
