Android App Lets You Send Blue Texts to iPhones

• Beeper Mini is a brand new app that may individuals with Androids to make use of iMessage.
• It means Android customers can ship blue-bubble texts, voice messages, and reactions to iPhone customers.
• The prototype was made by a teen who mentioned he had reverse-engineered iMessage, the app’s CEO mentioned.

If these dreaded inexperienced bubble textual content messages are the one factor stopping you from making the swap over to Android, as we speak may very well be your fortunate day.

A brand new, unofficial iMessage app for Android is right here.

It is referred to as Beeper Mini, and it is an Android app — not affiliated with Apple in any method — that allows you to ship blue-bubble textual content messages that had been beforehand solely obtainable to Apple customers.

Beeper says the app additionally permits you to entry options that had been beforehand solely obtainable on iMessage and iPhone, like Apple’s learn receipts, full-resolution image and video attachments, emoji reactions, voice messages, and stickers.

The app is certain to bother Apple, which is fiercely protecting of its iMessage expertise — in spite of everything, the coveted blue-bubble texts are a key method the iPhone firm retains individuals locked into its product ecosystem. So whereas the app is obtainable for obtain on the Google Play retailer now, do not be stunned if Apple tries to intervene and get it eliminated.

The app requires a $1.99 month-to-month subscription. Beeper Mini cofounder Eric Migicovsky instructed Enterprise Insider the payment is to point out that it is a reliable service and retains it freed from adverts. The corporate will not promote or add your information, he added.

Beeper says the app will join your Android telephone to Apple servers and help you ship and obtain end-to-end encrypted messages — and it does not learn your messages.

The prototype for the app got here from a shocking supply — it was created by a 16-year-old pupil, in accordance with Migicovsky. {The teenager} reached out to him over Discord final summer season and mentioned he had reverse-engineered iMessage, which had by no means been accomplished earlier than, in accordance with Migicovsky.

Beeper is not technically the primary Android app to supply the flexibility to ship blue-bubble texts to iPhone homeowners. The smartphone firm Nothing briefly supplied the same iMessage app earlier this 12 months earlier than it was eliminated over privateness considerations.

Migocvsky instructed BI that neither Apple nor any of its authorized representatives have been in contact in regards to the app, and the corporate mentioned it does not use any of Apple’s code.

“Beeper Mini truly makes iPhone customers have a greater expertise,” Migiocvsky mentioned, referring to the truth that presently, cross-platform texting could be a clumsy and irritating expertise.

“I believe crucial factor is {that a} inexperienced bubble chat just isn’t encrypted, whereas the blue bubble chat is encrypted,” he mentioned. “So I am optimistic right here. I believe Apple will truly admire that Beeper mini makes iPhone customers lives higher.”

Migicovsky declined to specify how many individuals have downloaded the app to date, however mentioned that data will probably be obtainable throughout the subsequent couple of weeks.

In the meantime, Apple plans to undertake the RCS messaging normal following a years-long stress marketing campaign from Google and Samsung. The transfer will enhance texting between Android and iPhones, permitting for pictures and movies to be despatched between the platforms with out leading to fuzzy, compressed media information. Nonetheless, it seemingly will not make green-bubble texts go away.

Beeper Mini presently simply helps iMessage, however Migicovsky mentioned the corporate is engaged on supporting different platforms like SMS and RCS sooner or later.