That means you can tell, at a glance, the difference between a text from mom and your best friend. For each of your contacts, or just a few, you get to pick the notification icon color and alert tone that plays when you get a new message. Textra is great if you like a lot of customization options in your apps. What's not: When you send a photo, you can't send text along with it.
What's great: The app's tidy design doesn't get in the way. You can also send free text messages to your friends who also use Hello, a feature that's still in beta. Other features include actionable notifications that allow you to reply or mark a message as read without opening the app. The only downside of this feature is that the camera viewfinder in the app is just a tiny circle next to the text field, and it's hard to see what you're recording. You can send photos with Hello, and the app recently added a GIF feature, where you can record a short GIF with your camera and send it to one or more of your contacts. There's also an optional night mode that turns on automatically when the sun goes down. The app has a clean design, with a white background and little clutter. One of my favorite apps, Hello is a minimalist SMS app that creates tabs for each of your conversations so you can easily switch between them. Just a note that this list focuses on SMS apps only, not social messaging apps such as WhatsApp or GroupMe. If you don't see your favorite, leave a comment below to share what it is and why you like it. I've rounded up four apps that offer a little something extra that most of the stock SMS apps. Some can send GIFs, others are skilled at group messages, and most can help you personalize your notifications.
Luckily, Google Play is ripe with text messaging apps with modern designs, fun features, and customization options. The SMS app that comes with your Android phone will serve you just fine to send text and photo messages to your contacts, but many can't do much more than that.
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