Textra SMS

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.3
434K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Textra is an alternative to your stock SMS/MMS app (that came preinstalled on your phone). So, whether you're looking for a faster experience, better customization options, more color or just a specific feature (like scheduling a text in the future) you've come to the right place.

Feature rich, notably 180+ material design theme, bubble & app icon colors. Light, dark, black, night & android screen modes, multiple bubble styles, scheduled (future) SMS & MMS, send delay, slide to delete, slide to call, quick snap camera, multi-select picture gallery, quick reply SMS popup, awesome MMS GROUP messaging, quick voice memos, endless GIFs, 21 text sizes, multiple font options, message blocker / blocklisting, pin-to-top, automatic video & picture compression, support for iOS reactions, iOS emojis & heaps more!

Customize your preferred theme & bubble colors, signatures and notifications (icon shape, sound, privacy, reminders, and muting) per conversation as well.

Get all the latest Android, Twitter, JoyPixels & iOS style emojis including diversity (skin tone). Just pick your preferred emoji style and express yourself!

NEW: Added support for Reactions (also known as Tapbacks) received from iOS Apple devices. So, for example instead of seeing an incoming message saying: Loved "See you at 9pm", you'll now see a love heart emoji superimposed on the message you sent. Just like on iOS devices, Facebook Messenger etc. You can also send reactions!

NEW: Copy Partial Text tap a bubble to check out this great new feature that allows you to copy any part of the text in a bubble!

It's pretty special; try it, tell your friends, shout from the treetops, but most of all enjoy it.

Fully compatible with Pushbullet, MightyText, Android Wear and Android Auto (car) for enhanced notifications and quick reply.

All Textra features are free forever. Occasionally you'll see an ad, or you can choose to make a once only in-app purchase to remove ads forever.

Support, Knowledge Base & Feedback @ https://textra.uservoice.com

Simple. Beautiful. Fast.
Updated on
17 Nov 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
Location and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.3
431K reviews
Ken Nesbitt
21 November 2024
Generally I love the app. However, there is a problem with sending pictures from my Samsung Gallery. When I attach a picture within a text it gets converted to a ! symbol. I have to send pictures by themselves and not witin a text. Haven't been here for a while but everything is working now. I can send pictures within a text and they don't get converted to a ! symbol now. Thanks!!!!
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Delicious
21 November 2024
Thanks heaps for using Textra SMS and rating us a kind 5 stars Ken. It is delightful to hear such positive words and it’s always a pleasure to serve our users.
Travis Gersch
23 November 2024
Not receiving notifications for half of my texts. All notifications enabled, do not disturb turned off, cleared cache, updated, uninstalled, restarted, no signal or carrier issues, I don't use any other texting app. Been going on for a couple months and I've been using this app for years. Has caused too many issues by not getting notifications for work texts. Been waiting for a fix but Textra never admits there's a problem when someone complains it doesn't work. Time to find a new app.
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Delicious
23 November 2024
Hi Travis, can you please contact us at [email protected] and we will gladly help you in resolving the issue.
V Jemmy
21 November 2024
I've been using Textra for years. It's a great messaging app with a lot of nice features, including customization by chat. One feature that is lacking is the ability to search within a specific chat. The search feature searches all of your chats and you can't limit it to a specific person. This makes finding things very difficult (as it will also search within the person's name, so if you're trying to find when John mentioned Jane, it will also give you every chat you've had with any Jane).
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Delicious
21 November 2024
To search a word (or words) for a specific contact, just type in the intended contact name and the relevant word (or words) in the search field. Please email [email protected] for any further assistance if needed, thanks V.

What's new


✔ Improved GPP support for US MSPA privacy regulations.
✔ Bug fixes.