The guy behind recent Twitter purchase Tweetie, along with the dude behind Borange, have put together a characteristically pretty SMS replacement app called Textie. There are two things you should know about it: It’s free, and it works. More »
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@Shawn Pero: Is it those stupid 100012 numbers? I hate those and I’m one of those friends that refuses to communicate with friends who text me using apps that do that.
duky
What issues does it have with T-Mobile? Is it because it’s specifically made for AT&T’s network or what?
otko
@thefinestline: Isnt that sad? Same here. Why talk when you can text?
HardwareWars
Can you access you contacts? Or send message via Textie from contacts?
HardwareWars
How did this get under the “replicating native features” radar that killed Google Voice? Or since that FCC probe, have they backed off on that draconian veto mindset?
HashMaster9000
Might use it if its supports Google Voice. Anyone know if it does?
Egypt1337
@ilovetofu: So it’s another version of instant messenger that only runs on phones?
coolmunk
@thefinestline: It is only worth it if everyone you text to has an iPhone (which, weirdly enough, is my case, but not my son’s). If everyone you text has an iPhone, and this app or similar apps, then yes, you can cancel your SMS contract.
The problem, as I noted below, at least with WhatApp, is..it isn’t that reliable compared to SMS in my experience.
dogcow
The problem with any app that is not the default built in SMS client is that you are trying to turn a core functionality into a data manipulated by a third party program. There are many “free” texting programs but it forces you to use their program (both sides must launch Textie). Alternatively, your friends who want to use the standard SMS app on their phone will get ugly headers. Some even make you reply with a confirmation key.
On my Android, I have Google Voice and use SMS on there. It’s actually a huge PITA despite having push notifications in the latest version. First of all, even with push it’s not as fast as a real SMS. Second, since my friends all receive SMS’s in a single inbox (iPhone SMS), they don’t distinguish between my GV number and my real cell number. What’s the first thing they do when they want to send me a fresh SMS? They open up the last conversation we had and usually that means sending me an SMS to my GV number.
The point I am trying to make is text using standard SMS is still king, besides the cost. Good luck trying to get all your friends and family to run a third party, data driven (yes I know SMS is data too but it’s different), program for SMS.
sygyzy
I may be completely lost with these texting apps. Does this really eliminate the need for me to have unlimited texting on my AT&T plan? And will I have to give the people that text me a special username or number to text? I never tried these apps because they all sound too good to be true.
I guess I need to download and flirt with it. I’d really love to not pay the outrageous $20 dollars a month for unlimited texting. Right now I’m at almost 5k texts a month and have never gone over 1 hour of talk time in the last 1.5 years of having an iPhone.
thefinestline
@Shawn Pero: Yeah, it’s annoying for your friends. Who will get weird texts, possibly from a different number each time.
rashad123us
Talking about ” so this is unlimited texting,” means that it’s unlimited textie-to-textie, correct? You can’t send and receive SMS from your phone number to other people’s phone numbers without using your alloted texts from your plan, I assume.
I get by using the smallest amount of texts AT&T offers for its iPhone plan, but often go over by a few texts, so a replacement would certainly be nice.
Tylerknight
Cool, but siriously. Ads in a texting app? I might as well just stick with what I already have. The default, without ads…
oneillkid
@CaptainJack: The Google voice mobile site works great on the iPhone. All you need to do is set GV to email your texts and you even get push messaging.
fughedaboudit
I’d be perfectly happy with Apple’s SMS app if only one could hide the keyboard after texting (without going back to all messages and returning to the one you want to see). OS 4? *crosses fingers*
The Rural Juror
okay.. so what’s to stop these guys (or any with similar apps) to harvest phone numbers and use them for sending out spam text or worse selling them?
Pink_Panther
Anything like this for android? I’m a cheapo college student who has the 400 texts/month data plan.
Jon Gray
@talkingstove:
Ya, but it looks pretty much like textfree (all be it I use text+ more..)
SeventhExile Speaks
@Eric Tate: So I take it that Tweetie isn’t your favorite app.
jkeller87
How about pMessenger? It’s a BBM like app for iPhone, Android, and BB (soon) that lets those users text and send multimedia messages to each other. Full version is currently free too, and I think they have a lite version as well (which lacks receipt verification features).
[pmessenger.net]
ilovetofu
I guess Apple is becoming a little more lenient with their App Store policies??
If I remember correctly, Apps that performed built-in functions were not accepted, and as I read here, this is just an app with SMS functionality.
I haven’t used this, but I don’t see anything remarkable about it. It just gives you unlimited texting, which is already part of most people’s plans anyway.
So it texts to emails?? You can do that from any phone, or you can just send an email
crd22
@SeventhExile Speaks: Cause it was made by the developer of Tweetie? iPhoners seem to flock to pretty UIs, and he is know for his.
talkingstove
@Alex Brewer:
The old lite version of textfree limited you to 20 a day.
The new one is unlimited.
SeventhExile Speaks
@talkingstove: Ooh, I hadn’t used Prowl, I guess that makes up pretty substantially for a lack of a full featured Google Voice app for iPhone. Cool.
CaptainJack
I too am a Russian Meekroblorg.
Chernobyl
@SeventhExile Speaks: I know textfree limits your texts to something like 20 texts a day, I’m downloading Textie now but i haven’t seen anything about limits on texts in this app.
Alex Brewer
I’ve used WhatsApp, which is similar..but it has an annoying habit of delaying sending/receiving at times for no apparent reason…anyone had any issues with Textie before I force everyone I know to switch to it after forcing them to switch to WhatsApp a few months ago?
dogcow
But the problem is, all your friends have to have that. I hope Apple figures out that they should have a BBM style client (iChat) that works between all iPhones.
Wegmans
So in a way, it is sort of like the recently released Kik?
And being partially from the guy who brought us Tweetie, I have no doubt that the app works well.
Eric Tate
Or you could just get Google Voice….
I can send as many free SMS messages as I want, and if the person on the other end uses Google Voice it is free for them too. Heck I can send and recieve my Texts from the plug-in I have in Chrome, so I get notifications of incoming texts in my browser as well as my phone. The big difference is that they are actual Text messages and fully compatible with the current SMS system that is in place. Of course it works best if you have a phone that allows for such apps to be installed (read: not iPhone), as the website isn’t as good of an experience.
CaptainJack
I guess I’m missing how is this different then the other 100 sms apps out there?
.. specifically, the larger ones like:
textfree, text+ and textnow
SeventhExile Speaks
I’ve tried this out, and it does work – except I’ve had friends say they don’t like the headers at all, and won’t accept texts through Textie because of it.
Shawn Pero
This is probably the best of the myriad of free texting apps, but Google Voice combined with Prowl just owns all.
talkingstove