Free text apps offer different features than the SMS texting app built into your iPhone or Android phone.

Do you pay for text messaging? If you have a smartphone, you don’t have to. There are plenty of mobile messaging app alternatives that you can try at no cost. They work with different types of phones, ...

Instead of providing iMessage on Android, Beeper now wants to organize all of your other chat apps into one hub app. Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and ...

Following Verizon’s decision to kill off its in-house Message+ texting app, AT&T is following suit, or technically already has. Making good on a promise to sunset the AT&T Messages app by the end of ...

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Apple regularly adds new capabilities to its messaging app, and iOS/iPadOS 26 kicks in several helpful new features. Here’s ...

Every time you need to talk to someone these days, you either use an instant messaging app or hop on your favorite social media platform. And why not? Not only are they convenient, but they also ...

Verizon subscribers who have been using the company’s Message+ texting app are now being forced to switch to an alternative, following the service’s discontinuation on Monday. The app is the latest ...

Even though the nation’s four largest mobile carriers have all added text-to-911 functionality this year, less than 2 percent of the nation’s 6,800 emergency dispatch centers are ready to receive ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...