invi vs MightyText
When comparing invi vs MightyText, the Slant community recommends MightyText for most people. In the question“What are the best SMS apps for Android?” MightyText is ranked 6th while invi is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose MightyText is:
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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Automatically switches between SMS and IM
invi automatically detects if you're talking to someone who's on invi, and switches between SMS and IM automatically to accommodate. That way, you get fully-featured chats when you're talking to someone who has invi, but you also get a beautiful, seamless experience when simply sending SMS messages.
Pro Share and consume rich media without leaving the app
The killer feature of invi is the ability to consume media in the app. For example if someone sends you a link to a Youtube video invi automatically turns it into a playable widget.
Not only can you view the media in the app, but you can also discuss the videos, photos etc while they are playing.
Pro Beautiful interface
The apps design has a level of care and detail put into it that is rare on Android apps. The home screen is not only beautiful, but shows useful information such as the last message sent, and the status of the person.
The messaging interface itself is very clean and useful. As well as the conversation history it tells you if the recipient has read your last message, is currently reading the conversation or is replying. This makes conversations in invi very fluid as you always know the status of the recipient.
Pro Makes it easy and fun to share stuff
invi makes sharing easy and fun - great to enrich conversations with stuff like YouTube clips, photos, games, web articles etc.
Pro Uses phone numbers for contacts
Invi uses your contacts phone numbers, not a app specific username or email address. This has pros and cons. On the upside it's very simple to get started as it automatically adds all your contacts who have invi installed, and if you text someone who doesn't have invi it will simply go to their normal inbox. This makes it very easy to integrate invi into your existing workflow.
On the downside you cannot chat to someone if you don't have their number (gchat friends for example).
Pro Certain apps can be used in split screen
A collection of apps can be used in split screen view with the messenger. These are apps designed or ported specifically for invi. Some of the apps included allow browsing sites like reddit, 9gag, buzzfeed or playing games like 2048 while using the app.
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.
Pro Easy to get going as it uses your current phone number & SMS
MightyText uses SMS, so the people you message don't need to download the app in order for you to message them. This makes the transition from plain SMS to MightyText very easy and unlike Google Voice you keep your existing number.
Pro Great Gmail plugin
The gtext Gmail Plugin lets you both manage and send texts from within gmail. Texts are labeled and searchable within gmail and you can message contacts just like its a Gchat.
Pro Desktop/Tablet UI optimised for making texting faster
MightyText has a special view on their desktop and Tablets that make participating in multiple conversations simultaneously very easy.
Pro Gives useful desktop notifications from your phone
MightyText gives you desktop notifications for new texts and calls with the ability to quickly reply from your computer. There is also a really cool feature that shows you your current battery life on your phone as well as low battery alerts no matter where your phone is.
Pro Easy sharing of photos & videos from phone
Using the toggle to turn on the photo and video sharing feature allows for sharing of both file types easily.
Pro Instant sync & easy sharing of photos & videos from phone
Photos and videos can be sync'd from ones PC to phone as well as easily shared through ones phone. This makes for a convenient way to access all of ones photos/videos in order to always have the accessable to be sent in messages.
Pro Easily send group messages
Users can add multiple contacts to a group message that gets sent to all recipients at once when sent, which is great for times when a user is trying to coincide info with a bunch of people such as a group going out for the evening or work related exercises.
Pro Match the rest of ones device with themes
Users can theme MightyText to their liking, making a more customized looking app that can fit with other themed UI elements of the OS.
Pro Easily schedule messages
Users can set up schedules for their messages for when they want one to go out but know they won't be close to their phone or just want to have a particular time to send something without having to do it at that specific time.
Pro Text directly from Facebook
Using a Chrome extension users can send texts directly from within Facebook on ones desktop.
Cons
Con No group chat
Con You can only search contacts and not messages
Con Early in development
This app still has some rough edges and missing features (like group chat).
Con Registration difficult for those without a phone #
For those that do not want to share their phone number or just do not have one to share, registration for invi can not be done. This means the app cannot be registered on a tablet or media device (like an iPOD touch) unless there is a number to give, of which neither of those devices when used by themselves have.
Con Android only
The many features cannot be used with people who aren't on Android, and you cannot login from the web.
Con Uses SMS for all messages
MightyText does not support data messages, so you will still be billed as per your carrier rates for every SMS you send.