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Fossify Messages is your trusted messaging companion
I hate this kind of advertising language.
Don't sell this as some fait accompli , done deal thing. It's not anything to me at the moment. It doesn't need to be my "messaging companion". It needs to be a program, that I use to send and receive SMS/MMS messages. That's it.
And "trusted"? I'll be the judge of that.
All Fossify apps have descriptions generated by AI and they are terrible. I guess that's in the spirit of "forking" (or rather just repackaging) what were previously Simple (brand) apps.
they are not rebranding. the main simple apps dev sold it to some company, and second main dev leads community fork afaik.
I use this and contributed a small bug fix to it the other year. It's pretty functional, although one thing I wish it did is have a way to see quarantined/spam labeled messages instead of the filter just blackholing them.
Spamblocker on Fdroid's pretty good, works with contacts/contact groups and stuff
Is there any FOSS app that can handle RCS too or is that all still closed off
You can't get RCS without Google Messages. An option is using a messaging apps like Beeper https://www.beeper.com/, which can connect to Google Messages (bridge) so you can read your messages in Beeper.
Afaik google never released RCS for third party app.
I have not seen any FOSS apps that can do this, or many apps at all. Certainly nothing that looks like an app you'd want to use. I don't know what the technical reason is for this. Does Google make it deliberately difficult for third-party apps to do RCS?
How does this compare against quik? https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.octoshrimpy.quik
Quik is very good, and i used QKSMS & QUIK for years. But QKSMS is dead, and QUIK hasn't updated for about 8 months. QUIK has an issue with restoring backups(issues 559). I've lost my received messages because of it.
Is quik dead? It hasnt been updated in quite a while...
Its been a while since I directly compared them, but I found quik more feature rich without bringing any bloat.
What kind of ways. Most of these Fossify products are extremely basic.
I've been using it. It's decent and basic. The only enhancement is that it doesn't do anything annoying.
Same lol, I love them for this.
Simple, basic, does what it says it does, runs on shit hardware, doesn't rely on some kind of underlying meta-account that is connected to the rest of some corpo dragnet, with ever changing TOS.
Honestly I wish more apps would have that enhancement
There are lots of apps that don't do anything annoying but still have a modern UI and features.
That hasn't been my experience on the Play Store.
Who said anything about the Play Store?
NeoStore ftw
The basicness is the enhancement. This is an app suite for people who call desktop environments bloat. I've been using gallery and notes for years :3
I know the corporations might have gotten to you but believe it or not there are sophisticated, modern apps that don't have bloat.
Are there any particular messaging apps fitting this description that you'd recommend?
Quik
Thanks. I'm giving it a try.
This is entirely the wrong community for this answer, but I've used the pro version of Textra for 10 years now. One time payment (10 years ago), updates every few months, lots of features, but they don't get in your way if you don't need them.
The main feature I use is "delay send for 5 seconds" to allow me to catch all my spelling and grammatical errors after I hit send , but the rest of the UI is pretty well thought out.
One of the very few commercial Android apps that I'd recommend to someone.
This is what I use as well. Except I didn't pay for it, I just denied internet access to the app and the ads went away 😅 but there are many others.
Yes. They're called fossify. Colon three.
We've already been over this...
Simpler is better in many cases. I have been using this messaging app for about a year now and I have been totally fine with it. It does what it says and it never connects to the internet unlike some Google ones.
Is there much different between this and graphene's messaging app?
It looks slightly prettier than the Graphene app. But functionally they seem about the same.