You don't switch away from your PC to your smartphone to reply to an email or an instant message, so why should a simple SMS message be any different? Thankfully, if you have an Android device, you can continue using your PC (and its full-size spacious keyboard) to read and send text messages. Our choice for this task: MightyText.
MightyText
Platform: Android, Web, Chrome
Price: Free ($4.99/month Pro)
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Features
- Syncs SMS and MMS on Android phone and Web
- Stores messages up to 6 months for free (forever for Pro users)
- Syncs contacts from phone
- Syncs photos and videos from your phone's gallery, with editing and filters
- Add media from preloaded gallery of popular GIFs, videos, memes, emojis and quotes
- Favorite texts
- Default list view, grid-based power view for multiple conversations
- Battery indicator
- Notifications for incoming calls
- Dial a number from the web (needs phone to talk)
- Ring your phone to find it
- Chrome extension to send messages from Gmail and Facebook chat windows
- Schedule text messages to send later (pro only)
- Save message templates (pro only)
- Create contact lists for easy group messages (pro only)
- Send messages to 25 people at a time (pro only)
- Add signatures (pro only)
- Block certain numbers from syncing with MightyText (pro only)
- 11 additional themes (pro only)
Where It Excels
Of all the different PC text messaging solutions for Android, MightyText is the easiest to use. Install it on your Android, sign into Gmail, fire up the webapp and you are ready to go. The app hooks you with the 'it just works' charm and then unloads some handy extra features to keep you happy. The big seller is how effortlessly it syncs your text messages, whether you are connected on Wi-Fi or using a data plan. The Power View makes it easy to carry out multiple text conversations simultaneously. Plus, if you use the Chrome extension, it will give you pop-ups when you are in your Gmail or Facebook tabs, much like how an incoming chat message looks in those windows. And you can compose new messages too. The Pro version ($39.99/year or $4.99/month) takes it up a notch with the ability to schedule messages and save templates—both useful features that are worth the money if you text a lot.
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Where It Falls Short
Search. That's the biggie missing in MightyText and there doesn't seem to be a good explanation why you can't search through all your text messages, even though they are right there. It's not even available in the Pro version. The preloaded gallery of GIFs, videos and more is limited, doesn't have great material, and there doesn't seem to be a way to add your own to it, but we're not too broken up about that. MightyText also has some issues with MMS on Android phones that aren't using the stock messaging app, so if you are using a text messaging replacement for Android, you may have to switch it off from 'default' to solve the problem (at least, according to the MightyText FAQ).
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The Competition
If searching through your text messages is important to you, then AirDroid—which is a complete Android-to-PC control solution (not just texting)—is your best option. One of the main features of remote controlling your Android through the Web is robust text messaging support as it indexes all your messages and carries out quick searches. However, MMS support on AirDroid is weak in both sending and receiving files, especially if you are messaging to a non-Android phone. In our tests, MMS messages sent to an iPhone and a BlackBerry didn't go through at all, and the BlackBerry's MMS didn't come through either.
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A popular second option is DeskSMS, but there doesn't seem to be much reason to consider it, especially considering it requires an annual $5 subscription. Both MightyText and AirDroid are better options, but it does have one thing going for it: integration with Google Talk/Hangouts. Plus, it's got a nifty tablet app called TabletSMS that basically lets you handle text messages on an Android tablet.
And, obviously, one of the best alternatives for text messaging from your PC is to use Google Voice. However, while Google Voice can do a lot of other things—like forward calls, integrate with Gmail for VOIP, and other stuff like that—its texting features are pretty mundane. Google Voice doesn't support MMS (except on Sprint), its texting has a lot of weird bugs (like splitting up messages and showing them out of order), and overall just isn't that special. If you want to use MightyText but still get the other features of Google voice, there are other ways to get those features.
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How To Get Text Messages On Computer
There's nothing worse than missing out on a text message because you didn't see it. Luckily, you can now start getting your texts sent to iMessage on your Mac, but the setup process is a little tricky. Here's how to do it.
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First of all, you'll need to have OS X Yosemite on your Mac. If you bought a computer in 2014 or after, you should be all set. You can check your version of macOS by click the Apple icon in the top left of your desktop screen, then clicking 'About This Mac.'
Next, you'll need to sync your iPhone and Mac via your iCloud account. Be sure to register both devices under the same email to make this process is as easy as possible — this just means you'll use the same Apple ID for both. This signals to your phone and computer that they should pull information from the same account.
Once you know your iPhone and Mac are using the same iCloud account, it's time to make sure iMessages is actually turned on. You can start with your iPhone.
Open Settings
Go to Messages
Make sure iMessage is on
Also be sure to turn on the option called 'Send as SMS.' This is what allows you to send a text even when iMessage isn't available.
Next, choose the addresses you want iMessage to send and receive messages from. This is under the 'Send & Receive' label on your iPhone.
Once you're in this menu, it will show you which Apple ID your iMessage is using, so double check to make sure it's the right one. Below, it shows you all of the addresses you can use for this account. So if you have a phone number and email address that you want to send messages from on the same network, add them all.
Now, your iPhone should be all set up. Next you'll need to setup your Mac. The instructions are very similar to the ones you just followed, so it should be really easy. Here's what to do:
Launch Messages on your Mac
Enter Apple ID email address and password (make sure it's the same one you just used on your iPhone)
Click Messages in the Menu bar in the top lefthand corner of your Mac
Choose Preferences
Choose Accounts
Choose the phone number and email addresses you want to use for the account (once again, make sure they're the same ones you selected on your iPhone)
Choose which phone number or email address you want people to see when you start a new conversation
And there you have it! The directions on both very similar, so once you get through one it should be smooth sailing. You definitely don't need to set up messages on both, but doing so will make sure you never miss out on anything. So set it up, and start chatting away on all of your devices!