When comparing chomp SMS vs Messenger, the Slant community recommends chomp SMS for most people. In the question“What are the best SMS apps for Android?” chomp SMS is ranked 7th while Messenger is ranked 10th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can schedule messages
Pro Supports themeing
Pro Lots of custom options
Pro Uses Facebook friends to create a contacts list
Allows communicating with anyone who's a friend on Facebook.
Pro Read receipts
Can see who has seen each message in group messages.
Pro Easy to share posts from Facebook
Integration with Facebook makes it easy to share any interesting posts from the Facebook timeline.
Pro Great UI
User interface of the application is clean, intuitive and easy to overview.
Cons
Con No archive
Con Not able to Like a message
Con No MMS support
After years of use and very happy with the app, after the android 10 update it doesn't support mms. contacting developer was no help.
Con Lack of privacy
Messenger is owned by Facebook. Based on their privacy policy, this means that any information you provide (including messages sent) are used by Facebook to profile you and sell access to your data to advertisers.
Con Lack of end-to-end encryption
Secret (end-to-end encrypted) chats are only supported in one-to-one messages, and are not enabled by default, and the encryption has not been verified independently.