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Independent automated assessment · 2 signal sources · 510 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.

Messages: Text SMS

Phone call

Messages - SMS Texting App is the ultimate tool for staying connected with fr…

4.2 ★53,135 ratings
5M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases

About this app

Messages - SMS Texting App is the ultimate tool for staying connected with friends, family, and loved ones! ⚡

With Messages, you can easily send and receive text messages across any device. This versatile SMS app ensures seamless communication, whether you're texting from a smartphone or tablet.

Enjoy a highly customizable experience with Messages - SMS Texting App. Personalize your messaging interface with a variety of colours, font sizes, and notification sounds to suit your style. Whether you’re sharing photos, sending emojis, or having a quick chat, the app gives you complete control over your texting experience.

Key Features: ✔ Send and receive SMS and MMS messages. ✔ Schedule SMS for future delivery. ✔ Block unwanted text messages. ✔ Highlight and pin your favorite messages for quick access. ✔ Group messaging to stay connected with multiple contacts.…

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

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Independent evidence report

Evidence and review signals

This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.

Automated analysis in progress

Which version this describes

When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.

This analysis describes version 1.54 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.54, updated 2026-05-20.

What we measured

Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.

How these are measured

Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.

Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured

What the analysis found

App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.

Methodology

Positive evidence 1

Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.

Developer says data deletion can be requested
Measuredfrom the store listingview evidence
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text

One source only — shown, not confirmed 1

A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.

Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 510 reviews scanned)

Highlighted reviews

Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.

Aggressive ad load
“contains to many ads for android phones”
4★ · Google Play · 2026-08-11
Aggressive ad load
“Too much ads”
1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-15
Aggressive ad load
“way to many ads. I HATE HOW MY MESSAGES ARE. I PLAINLY DON'T LIKE IT AND I DON'T WANT IT ON MY PHONE.”
1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-31

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 1.54.

What this app sells

Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.

Business modelFree

Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.