Text Messaging alternative apps?

Does anyone out there recommend any free apps that provide texting through an app without actually having to use standard text messages? I know I can do it through the Google Voice app, but I was wondering if there were any other apps out there. Thanks!

For what you want (texting without using SMS, but having the recipient receive it as an SMS), Google Voice is the only option I'm aware of.
If the recipient is another Android user you could always just email their gmail account: those are delivered in real time and would be roughly equivalent to texting...

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I have a Droid 3 and with all the focus on texting and driving I am looking for an app that me do a couple things.
1. Read me my text message via Bluetooth(if possible)
2. Send a canned response to the sender that I will be back to them.
I was using "DriveSafe.ly" but it didn't work well. Are there any good, simple alternatives? It would beat getting a ticket or having an accident.

Two, but they are pretty expensive:
1. Cepstral Voices 4.2.0
2. Infovox iVox - 1.1.
Or you can wait until Leopard is released which is supposed to have new, more natural sounding voices included according to Apple.

IPhone text messages and apps

When I check the text messages on my teens phone there is an app that is updating constantly and overrides me being able to see her text messages. Can anyone tell me what that is?and this is when I log onto AT&T to check our bill. It is using up data by updating and sending updates all night long.

If text messages are sent via iMessage, a free texting service that apple created in iOS 5, they will not show up on an AT&T bill. As for the excessive data usage, it would make since that social networking would be responsible. In terms of overriding the texting list, this would most likely be an error within AT&T's network. I have an iPhone 5 using AT&T and do not have this problem with the detailed billing plan. You should contact AT&T to cancel your detailed billing plan to save you $10 a month. If you want to view your teen's text messages, you can link your two apple id's together so you can view any text between your teen's phone and another via your phone. For more help on this matter, you can contact Apple or reserve a Genius Bar Appointment by using the Apple Store app or www.apple.com.
If you have any more details that you would like to share, I can for sure try and find a different solution. If there is anything else you would like my help on, let me know.
Cheers,
Allen

How to I get my iPad to not receive text messages and apps from my iPhone?

After doing the new software update on my phone, computer, and Ipad my Ipad has been linked directly to my phone. I have changed all setting so that it wont share of communicate but in the update process all saved data was removed from my IPAD I went back to Itunes and after the update to that all the backed up information was gone and the cloud didnt have any backed up information in it from the issues they had with the cloud in August. How do I get my Ipad to disconnect from my phone that it wont recieve text messages or anything else associated with my phone?

You are probably going to have to sign out of/turn off Messages on the phone and the iPad and then start all over again and enable messages on the phone first so that the number is accessible again to use on the iPad in Settings>Messages>Send and Receive at>You can be reached by iMessages at. You need to be able to select your phone number in there.
This kb article explains it in detail.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538

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I'm not sure if anyone is experiencing this but I just started using iChat after years of a hiatus. I noticed that there is an applescript for auto-accepting new text IM messages, a welcomed option.
However, ever since I turned it on, iChat crashes almost every time a new chat is started. Has anyway experienced this and, if so, are there any resolutions other than disabling it?
One thing to note is that I am running the Chax iChat add-on to integrate my AIM and GChat lists into one.
I'm running on a thunderbolt 15" MBP and OS 10.6.7.
TIA!
Brian

Hi,
So the Specs did not get changed :-)
Which version of Chax ?
IF you used the .dmg for the Leopard version you may have a problem.
In Console (Applications/Utilities) is it managing to save a Crash log for iChat ?
You have to open the reveal triangles
10:46 PM Thursday; June 9, 2011
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.7)
 Mac OS X (10.6.7),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

My Iphone 5 will not notify me when I have a text message. There is not banner notification, not sound, or vibration. I have to click on the message icon to even see if I have a text message.

My Iphone 5 will not notify me when I have a text message. There is not banner notification, not sound, or vibration. I have to click on the message icon to even see if I have a text message.

Settings app > Notification Center > Messages (you will need to check both the INCLUDE and DO NOT INCLUDE sections). Set the alerts you wish to see.

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I need to be able to print my text message thread. Is there an app that will convert my texts to emails?

txtot is finnally avaliable for download again
here's the direct link
or simply visit txtot.com
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HT1386 Just downloaded 7.2 into my Iphone 5 what a mess. Dropped called no audible notifications for email or text messages. Went to the apple store and reset phone to original specs. Now trying to restore apps and music and itunes will not recognize th

Just downloaded 7.2 into my Iphone 5 what a mess. Dropped called no audible notifications for email or text messages. Went to the apple store and reset phone to original specs. Now trying to restore apps and music and itunes will not recognize the phone. I have gone thur the steps for windows 7 and still nothing??? I have downloaded the newest version I itunes too.

Hi Midwestboy,
If your iPhone isn't being recognized by iTunes on your Windows machine, you may find the following article helpful:
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
Regards,
- Brenden

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I have the iPhone 4. and when I updated the software to iOS6 My notifications don't make a sound anymore, the only sound that I get are text messages, or Email. I checked to see if the other apps were muted and they weren't. How do I fix this

You cannot update iPhone 4 to IOS 8.1.2, the highest you can update is IOS 7.1.2.
Unless you've iPhone 4S (looks similar to iPhone 4)

I loaded ios7.1 to my Ipad2 and my wife's cell phone came up. I can't change it and now I get her text messages on my iphone4S and she is getting apps I download on her iphone 4S. How do we fix it?

I recently downloaded ios7.1 to my ipad and my wife's cell phone # appeared on my ipad. It would not let us change it. Now I am getting her text messages and she is getting the apps I load on her iphone4S. We both have iphone 4S, but she has version 7.1 and I still have 6.0 because I didn't like the changes in v.7.0. We share an Apple ID and password which was not a problem before. My daughter says this is our problem, as she had her husband had this issue. She doesn't know how he fixed it. Has anyone else had this issue and can you tell us how to separate our Apple ID/passwords if this is, indeed, the problem?

If you share an Apple ID, both of your phone numbers should be linked to that ID. You should be able to use your phone number as well. My wife, my daughter and I all share an Apple ID for purchases, and we each text from our iOS devices using our own iPhone numbers.
When iOS 6 came out, you were able to link the phone number with your Apple ID to use for Messages and FaceTime. You will need to sign out of messages on all devices and then start the process all over again.
Take a look at this.
iOS and OS X: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use - Support

Why is my text messaging app is not working at all, is a blank screen? Help!!!

My text messaging app is not working at all is a blank screen when I open it! Help!!!

Abdussalam.A,
you mentioned that Terminal does not work at all for your MacBook Pro. What currently happens when you run Terminal? In what way does it not work?

Looking for an app that will alarm on specific text messages.

Looking for an app that will alarm on specific text messages. The idea is to use the message as a pager without a monthly subscription. There is a similar app for andriod called firealert.

I could not find any app that would do this. There are different types of message apps but nothing that I could find to do what I am looking for. For a specific contact I would like the message to have a notification that will not go away until I acknowledge it. Just like you would do if it was a pager.

Is there any way to receive Google Talk messages in the iPhone Messages (meaning the text messaging app)?

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If I recall correctly, it's possible to send a Google Talk message out as an SMS (though there are apparently limits on how many in a given time period in order to prevent spam). That would be the only way as far as I know. Messages on the Mac seems to have folded some of iChat's features into it, so it works a bit differently.
Best of luck.

How do I send a link to a youtube video in text message? The youtube app doesnt provide URLs that I can copy & paste...

My friend has a blackberry and sends links to youtube videos to me all the time, in text messages, that I can watch easily. I could not figure out how to send him links to youtube videos. The youtube app doesnt provide a URL I can copy and paste into the text message and going to youtube through web browser just defaults it back to the (URL-less) app.
I cant be the first person totally stumped by this.
Its either not possible or crazy simple and I just havent drank the apple kool-aid enough yet...

to the right of the vol bar there is an icon which look like a box with an arror going out of if you click on that and choose mail link to this video you get what you want

My iPhone has recently been crashing (or rather the apps) when I would try to access my text messages, contacts, phonebook, facebook, or email. I tried restarting my phone and lost all of my contacts. Anyone know what's wrong/how to fix it

My iPhone has recently been crashing (or rather the apps) when I would try to access my text messages, contacts, phonebook, facebook, or email. I tried restarting my phone and lost all of my contacts. This has been happening more and more frequently. Today I was in my pictures and was trying to crop one and my phone shut off completely. Anyone know what's wrong with it or how to fix it?

Make sure all apps are fully closed:
- double tap your home button
- hold your finger on an app
- when the apps start to wiggle press the red "-" button on all the apps
Now do a hard reset:
- hold the home button and the sleeps/wake button down at the same time
- the phone will shut off then when the apple logo ppears release both buttons
If by then your contacts have not been restored you would need to try and retreive them from a back up on itunes/icloud that was made when the contacts were on the phone. You could even stream them from the cloud if they were synced to the cloud. The link beow will show you how to restore from an itunes/icloud back up:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
Also to prevent this issue which i have seen alot when users are still running iOS 5 it would be best to update the iOS on your phone. To do this follow the link below:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4623
Hope this helps

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