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Products that do what Signal-Android – A fork of Signal that provides SMS support does

Signal was a brilliant app. It can send messages with rich media, host group chats, and even do voice and video calls, all with the peace of mind that comes from a proper secure messaging app. The best part was that you could still send messages to people who don't use Signal. Signal was the messaging app everyone wants - all the benefits of iMessage, without being siloed in one particular ecosystem. Sometime leading up to October of 2022, the folks at the Signal foundation lost the plot. Signal has since dropped support for SMS, and is inexplicably adding "stories" to their personal…

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    Send end-to-end encrypted text, picture, and video messages

    2015

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    A noise-cancelling Twitter client for Android

    2017

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    Hi HN! I’m proud to share that we have built a real 3rd party iMessage client for Android. We did it by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol and encryption system. It's available to download today (no waitlist): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beeper.ima and there's a technical writeup here: https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works. Unlike every other attempt to build an iMessage app for Android (including our first gen app), Beeper Mini does not use a Mac server relay in the cloud. The app connects directly to Apple…

    2023 · beeper.com

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    Beeper346

    All your chats in one app

    2025

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    Send & Receive funds through Signal

    2022

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    A daily, curated (free) newsletter with sharp insights

    2022

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    Airchat848

    A social walkie-talkie

    2024 · air.chat

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    The messaging app that cuts the bullsh*t out of texting

    2015

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    Use iMessage on any Android phone 💬

    2019

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    A reminder for your messenger - now on Android

    2018

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    Thanks for checking out Babble! You might wonder why this app is even useful and why not just use Signal/PGP. This app's target audience is actually ordinary people in China or similar countries who are under severe government surveillance and censorship, where access to Signal and similar E2EE messaging software is blocked by nationwide firewalls, such as the Great Firewall of China (GFW). Chinese people have been deprived of freedom of speech even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Li Wenliang, who was among the first to notice the spread of the virus and warned his colleagues about it in…

    2022 · babble.landrop.app

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    Team up around hashtags for more retweets, likes & traffic

    2019

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    Signal106

    Free, worldwide, encrypted phone calls for iPhone

    2014

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    Beep157

    Giphy for sound bites

    2018

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    Spectrum166

    Bring agents to all the interfaces people already use

    Apr 2026

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    Conversation insights app

    2025

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    Tape116

    Enhance your SMS outreach with Video Stories

    2020

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    Encrypted video messaging for friends and family.

    2021

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    Texted.io126

    Send text blasts to groups, receive individual replies

    2017

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    A messenger app for sending yourself notes

    2022

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    iMessage on Android

    2016

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    Spotify Wrapped, but for your texts

    2024

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    Hey there! Signals is a survey system that collects feedback from staff (mostly) but also clients and stakeholders in a business. It does this via SMS on a weekly schedule (the cadence can be changed but it works best when done weekly). My co-founder and I started working on this nearly a year ago, having run similar small builds for over four years. This time we’ve tried to do it properly. The execution is relatively simple - similar to an eNPS (Net Promoter Score - a common way of measuring how consumers like your product or service), but we wanted a way to anonymously pass candid feedback…

    2023 · runsignals.com

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    Signal92

    Auto-tweet your articles on repeat on your schedule.

    2019

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