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, ...

You can forward a text message from your Android phone using most popular texting apps, like the Verizon Message+ app.

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.

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 ...

RCS messaging is the new hotness, and it’s so popular that Verizon is shutting down its popular Verizon Messages and Message Plus apps. According to Verizon’s FAQ page, the apps are being shut down ...