Slant community chat on Discourse| 5 Recommended Products | Recommendations | Platforms | Publisher | Messaging systems |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 Telegram· · · | 2 | 1 | Web iOS Android OSX Windows Linux | Telegram Messenger LLP | Data SMS |
| #2 KDE Connect· · · | 10 | 0 | Linux, Android | KDE | any |
| #3 AirDroid· · · | 3 | 2 | Android / iOS / Windows / Web | Sand Studio | SMS / MMS / WhatsApp (etc) |
| #4 MightyText· · · | 1 | 3 | Android / Chrome / Safari / Firefox / Opera / IE | MightyText: SMS Texting w/ PC - Free SMS Messaging | SMS MMS |
| #5 Yappy· · · | 2 | 1 | Android / Chrome / Safari / Firefox / Opera / IE | MariusSoft LLC | SMS MMS |
Pro Privacy focused
In addition to the end-to-end encryption that provides privacy to communications, the app also includes self destructing timers for chats, and the ability to permanently delete messages, yours and theirs, from your device.
Pro Secure
Telegram uses an open source MTProto encryption protocol that provides complete end-to-end encryption for secret chats. To show off their confidence in the protocol the company behind Telegram has organized $200,000 and $300,000 challenges to break the encryption. So far there have been no winners.
Pro Media messaging
Videos, gifs, images, geolocation, and documents.
Con Not a direct alternative to Pushbullet
Does not support most advanced features Pushbullet has. It's basically a tool to send links from mobile to PC and vice-versa.
Con Only "Secret Chat" messages are encrypted end to end
The only way to get end to end encryption using Telegram is to use the Secret Chat function, anything through the regular service is not encrypted.
Con Not open source
Telegram has an open API and protocol free for everyone, but the backend software is not open source. Therefore 100% privacy can not be evaluated.
Pro Premium is cheaper than Pushbullet Pro
As of 23/11/2015, the price for Pushbullet Pro is $39.99 yearly/$4.99 monthly while AirDroid Premium is only $19.99 yearly/$1.99 monthly/$38.99 biennially.
Pro It's a Swiss Army knife of cross-device functionality
In addition to SMS management and notification mirroring, it includes the ability to transfer files, URLs and clipboard, view through the camera lens of the Android device on another device, and completely control all functionality of a rooted Android device on a different device.
Con Considerable delay when sending SMS messages via computer
Messages sent via computer can sometimes be delivered to the recipient with a delay of up to 10 minutes. Because of that holding a conversation might be difficult and it can needlessly drag out.
Pro Supports a wide variety of SMS apps
MightText includes support for Hangouts (default SMS app for Android 4.4), as well as Textra, Chomp SMS, Hello SMS, Easy SMS, GoSMS.
Pro Read and send texts from all your Android devices + Web
MightyText syncs your SMS between your phone, tablet and the web interface. This means you can now read and send SMS from whatever device is most convenient at the time.
Con Pro version required to access all features
Features like message scheduling, themes, contact lists, message templates and SMS/e-mail sync require a $5/month ($40/yr) subscription.
Pro Solid SMS service
Never had a failure.
Pro Simple
'Just works'. Very smooth setup.
Con Messages take too long to arrive to the recipient
Message appears to have gone through, but in reality they don't arrive to the recipient device for another 5 or 10 mins.
Con Shaky notification mirroring
Using the Chrome extension, it's a bit hit and miss.
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