Textra SMS Review- Best SMS Replacement App for Android

If you are an Android user, you must know the level of customization it offers. By default, the device comes with usable pre-loaded apps including the SMS app. The stock SMS app comes with Android doesn’t come with fancy features. It is useful only for sending and receiving the messages and nothing else. SMS replacement apps like WhatsApp, Skype, Telegram are packed with many advanced features, but they only work when the data connection is available. This is the primary reason for people still using the SMS even in the WhatsApp and other messaging apps era.

But, if you want extra features, themes like we see in WhatsApp in the traditional messaging you can check the Textra app.

Installation

Textra is available in the Google Play Store for free. During the installation, Textra asks permissions for accessing your contacts and to make and manage phone calls. Once, you allow them, the program starts by showing the inbox in Textra style.

User Interface

The user interface of the Texta SMS is beautifully designed and you can feel the freshness when compared to the stock SMS app. Everything is perfect in the Textra app, for easy reading the app offers Dark, light and auto-night modes.

Features

The best part of the Textra is threaded conversations support. If you use SMS for long conversations, Textra makes the reading responding more easy and convenient. The swipe support on each message or thread offers two options. If you swipe left on a message or conversation, it shows the trash icon for deletion. On the other hand, swiping on the right side reveals a phone icon, if you want to make a call to the SMS sender this option ease your job.

Tapping on each conversation will open up the conversation thread. When you tap on the sender picture it opens up the contact information in detail and using these options you can add the contact to your phone book.

There are plenty of features are embedded in the messaging tab. You can see a + icon beside the messaging space, tapping on the + icon open up many options. These options are nothing but emojis, picture sending options, message time delay, share a contact, gift and many more.

Another interesting feature of Textra is message scheduling. If you want to send a birthday greeting at a particular time, Tetra will help you to set message scheduling. You don’t need to be available or woke up at that time. Using Textra message scheduling is a pretty simple process.

Textra customization features are far excellent, you don’t usually find them on the stock SMS app. Apart from dark and light themes support, it offers a ton of colorful themes which makes the conversations more attractive. The font selection is another attractive feature, you can change the SMS font without enacting the system fonts. There is plenty of emojis available to add fun in your conversations. It has more than 2900+ Android, Twitter, Emoji One & iOS style emojis matching with every skin tone.

Textra SMS is available for free in Google Play Store. The free version serves the ad in middle and where as the paid version comes as ad-free.

Summing Up

These are the best features of Textra and it has the capabilities to your stock SMS app without a second thought. It is one of the finest SMS apps with a great set of features.

Have you ever used Textra? or planning to install it, let us know your opinion in the comment box below.

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