Pulse SMS (Phone/Tablet/Web)

Contains adsIn-app purchases
3.7
79.8K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Want an SMS app that is fast, secure, and packed with all the features and customization you could want? Look no further.

Pulse SMS is a seriously beautiful, next-generation, private text messaging app.

We care deeply about your experience with the app, and are committed to creating the best SMS texting app.

To round out its best-in-class phone app, Pulse SMS re-imagines your communication by giving you the ability to sync your SMS and MMS messages across all of your devices. Send and receive texts and pictures—seamlessly—from your computer, tablet, car, or any device with an internet connection.

This is text messaging, done right.

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A Taste of the Features
Pulse SMS is jam packed with features. On top of syncing between all of your devices, here is a small taste of what makes it the ultimate text messaging experience:
- Unparalleled design and fluid animations
- Endless global and per-conversation customization options
- Suggested Smart Replies within conversations
- Password protected, private text conversations
- Share GIFs with your messages, from Giphy
- Powerful searching through messages and conversations
- Automatic message backup and restore with a Pulse SMS account
- Preview web links
- Blacklist pesky spammers
- Delayed sending to give you time to edit or cancel messages you send
- Automated replies based on contacts, keywords, and driving/vacation modes
- Dual-SIM support

Encryption Protocol
First and foremost, all of your conversations are stored in end-to-end encryption. You never have to worry about your data leaking out and no one can see your messages except for you, not even the Pulse SMS Team! With Pulse SMS, you get privacy and peace of mind, right out of the box.

Privacy Protection Proof
In technical terms, we use PBKDF2 to encrypt your password and use it as a key to encrypt messages and conversations.

Technical Encryption Overview

1) When an account is created, we generate two salts. One to use with authentication and one for end-to-end encryption.

2) The one that we use with login is straight-forward and normal. We store a version of your password, hashed against the first salt, and authenticate you against this hash.

3) For the encryption, we hash your password against salt #2 and store it locally on your device (computer/tablet/phone). Having this key is the only way that you can decrypt messages. Since no one else has the password that was hashed against the second salt, no one else will be able to decrypt anything.

We share our privacy protocol publicly so our users have peace of mind knowing their password is never stored anywhere and without that password, there is no way to create the secret key used for encrypting and decrypting the content stored in the backend.

Supported Platforms
Pulse SMS has a web app that you can use. It also has native apps for tablets, MacOS, Windows, Google Chrome, Firefox, Linux, and even Android TV. Check out all of our platforms, along with screenshots, here: https://home.pulsesms.app/overview/

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Pulse SMS is the premier web, computer, and private texting application on Android. Everything is instant, setup is a breeze, and it's design is unlike anything you have ever seen.

Helpful Links

Website: https://maplemedia.io/
Privacy Policy: https://maplemedia.io/privacy/
Support: [email protected]
Updated on
Nov 4, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Messages and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.7
73.5K reviews
Jamie Boyer
November 14, 2024
Have always had trouble with contact picture updates sycing. Previously resolved by clearing app cache. I cleared the cache, closed the app, and updated the app. The update came full of ads that appear right where you type messages...and bonus full page ad that pops up for you to upgrade to paid script. This update is garbage and all I hear is the paid script is overpriced and yearly. Contact pics still randomly disappear and don't return. Only thing that works is to uninstall/reinstall.
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Maple Media
November 12, 2024
Hi Jamie - A newer version of our app is now available on the Play Store. Please get this update and if your issue with contact pictures persists, please go to our app's side menu | Support | Email so we can investigate for you. For an ad-free experience, you can upgrade to premium by going to the app's side menu | Upgrade to Pulse SMS+. Cheers.
Ben Garner
November 8, 2024
[Original 2019-11-10, 3 stars] Deletes accounts after 2 months of inactivity even for lifetime paid subscribers. [Update 2024-11-08] Messages appear to send but all silently fail since the Nov 4th update. Over the last several months: occasionally creates new notifications for old messages in other conversations instead of the new message, or none at all; frequent visual bug where the contact for a pinned conversation is duplicated to an adjacent conversation, workaround is to reopen the app.
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Maple Media
November 12, 2024
Hi Ben - Our app's latest version should resolve your issue with sending messages. We'll take your feedback on the deletion of accounts as a suggestion. For the other issues you mentioned, please go to our app's side menu | Support | Email and send a report with logs so we can further investigate for you. Cheers.
Benjamin Conner
November 14, 2024
Constant popup ads are annoying. That and taking 25 percent of screen real estate in your messages asking you to upgrade is annoying. A one time fee would have been fine for an otherwise good app. But finally uninstalled after constant upgrade harassment and a subscription for texting. Google messages seems to work well and offers RCS for older Android phones.
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What's new

Pulse SMS Update! We've improved your messaging experience with:
Archived Chats: Find active chats faster by hiding archived conversations.
Link Previews: See what web pages look like before you click.
Email Blocking: Block unwanted emails by domain.
Mark All Read: Easily clear your unread message list.
Plus, bug fixes for notifications and foldable devices! Let us know what you think at [email protected]