[salilsundresh]

What's the best option? I want to be able to use this for like 95% of my texting and I don't want to keep giving my friends and contacts different numbers to text me at because it gets annoying.

Here's what I'm looking for:
Shouldn't be forced to spend $10 to get a "free" text messaging app
Some sort of push notification so I don't have to constantly open the app to check if I received a text.
A consistent number people can text me at..it shouldn't be different every time. I want people to be able to just program this into their phone and be able to text me using that number every time.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have checked out AIM (free version), it seems pretty good I'm not sure if there's a better option out there since there doesn't seem to be a way of saving transcripts.

[GregTheWang]

Yeah, AIM is a great app, good enough that I decided to buy the ad-less version even though a few minutes of editing code would do the same thing.

I haven't tried any free SMS apps though, because I don't want friends having to go through extra trouble to communicate with me. I get 1500 texts a month and that's usually enough for me.

[salilsundresh]

Yeah, the thing is there's a few people I text almost every day so it would save me some of my messages.

[russell5]

I am using textplus+ is has push. It doesnt have a specific number that you can text to but what i found out is that when i send a text to a certain person it will always come from the same number (unless i end the conversation in textplus but there is no reason to) So i just added that number to my contact on their phone.

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[balti]

Messi.im can send text messages, pictures and locations, but only from iPhone to iPhone. It has push though and works pretty good.

[ss1gohan13]

Try google voice. U can create a second phone number, then it just uses the internet to send txt. It's displayed as a phone number at the recieving end, and the replied msg gets put into the sms section of app. Just make sure that u turn off the forwarding, if u dont google voice sends u a txt notifying u of a txt msg on your google voice account.

[babyblue_pimp]

you aren't willing to pay for your text messages.

yet you aren't willing to pay for a program that gives you free text messages?

so your asking for a free way, to get unlimited messaging? that doesn't even sound smart, i'd rather spend 10 bucks then someone randomly being able to see all my texts (what do you think those small time free messaging programs do?)

[ss1gohan13]

its google, i really hope they dont look into my msgs, someone could get in trouble :P