Best Messaging Apps
By • 5:00 am, August 27, 2014 • • It's an iOS messaging shootout! Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Mac I recently watched The Lady try to convince a friend of ours to download WhatsApp. The friend is moving to the United Kingdom, and we want to stay in touch. Our friend tried to say that email would do the job, but we all know that will never work. Advertisement Our friend doesn’t want WhatsApp (maybe because ), and she doesn’t own an iPhone, so iMessage is out. Thankfully, there are plenty of free and good alternatives.
Dec 11, 2018 - Best Messaging Apps. These Apps Get Your Message Across. Facebook Messenger (Android, iOS: Free) WhatsApp (Android, iOS: Free) Viber (Android, iOS: Free) Slack (Android, iOS: Free) Microsoft Teams (Android, iOS: requires Office 365) Telegram (Android, iOS: Free) Signal (Android, iOS: Free).
Some are more secure, some have more features, and none of them is owned by Facebook. Let’s take a look at what’s available and how these very different messaging apps compare on a number of key features.
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Why messaging? Messaging, unlike any other kind of communication, approximates they way people act when they’re really together. Nobody hangs out with a friend for an afternoon and then makes a long speech to summarize their thoughts for the day. We point at things and say, “Hey, look at that.” We deal in snippets. When I’m out and about, I use my iPhone to do this. I send iMessages to The Lady, sending her a photo of a place that rents out sewing machines by the hour, say. I send pictures of trams to my trainspotter dad, and so on.