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Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 454 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.

Messenger - Texting App

Emoji SMS Messenger

Messenger for Text, a texting app with new Emoji, Stickers, Gifs is here for…

4.5 ★90,280 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases

About this app

Messenger for Text, a texting app with new Emoji, Stickers, Gifs is here for you now! As a best choice to take place default SMS app, Messenger text app is more than convenient, effective and totally free messenger app. We have emoji, gif, private box and customize wallpaper & bubble and many more unique features waiting for you to explore while messaging. Fully customize by you! Enjoy the most amazing texting experience.

In our text app, you can find: Emoji Art & Animated GIF : 3000+ emoji, like Emoji One. Animated Gif will bring more fun while you sending a text message. Text can never be so vivid and creative by sharing tons of trending hot GIFs via MMS & SMS

Private Box: Private box will encrypt your content from being seen. Even further, you can hide private box’s icon to put all messages or contacts privately. Text can never be so safe.…

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

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Independent evidence report

The evidence behind this assessment

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

Automated assessment complete

Which version this describes

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

This analysis describes version 1.8.9 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.8.9, updated 2026-08-21.

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
65–79% 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

From the package we downloaded and read — version 1.8.9, scanned 2026-09-20.

Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
6 or more requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
3–9 found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.

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

The catch list 1

Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.

Multiple ad networks bundled
Measuredfrom SDKs in the app packageartefact 5bdee9155d19…
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 6 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Fyber / Digital Turbine Exchange, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager) and 2 more

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 12 distinct reviewers (2.6% of 454 reviews scanned)

Highlighted reviews

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

Aggressive ad load
“I am so excited to find a game in an app that provides a fun and challenging brain game. I love how frequent the mini games rotate so it is never boring. And Yes, there are too many ads, but I am not willing to pay monthly or yearly for…”
5★ · Google Play · 2026-05-06
Aggressive ad load
“Uninstalled immediately, way too many ads! Don't even know if it works or not because it's easy too cluttered.”
3★ · Google Play · 2026-03-16
Aggressive ad load
“to many ads after every text in or out. Other than that, operates well.”
4★ · Google Play · 2026-03-12

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 1.8.9.

What this app sells

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