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 ...

Text messaging was starting to feel outdated until recently. Other messaging apps offer a variety of features that bring messaging to the modern era. RCS brought SMS and MMS messaging to the modern ...

It's a surprisingly personal experience with real professionals on the other end.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most default messaging apps on Android have improved. For example, Google Messages has various security and interactive features introduced through RCS chat. While Messages offers HD media sharing, ...