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 ...

After a $1B text scam wave, Google’s new AI spam-blocking tools for Android take aim at phishing, just as Apple strengthens iOS scam filters.

You can block unwanted text messages on an Android phone by blocking the phone number with just a few taps.

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 ...

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 ...