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Beeper, a unified chat application, is now free (self.chat)

submitted 2 years ago by remington to c/chat

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A little over a year ago I was fortunate to make it onto the beta testing team for Beeper. TL;DR Beeper is a unified chat application (i.e. all major chat applications, including SMS, in one app). Beeper recently announced that their basic service is now free https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-is-now-free. However, they will be slowly working their way through a wait list. The convenience of this service can't be understated. Also, encrypted services such as Signal are supported. Just go to https://www.beeper.com/ and click the 'Get started' button to join the wait list.

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[–] Hirom 5 points 2 years ago

Signal seems to be going in the opposite direction and announced the end of SMS support because of the lack of SMS security https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/

Meanwhile Google is pushing RCS hard https://www.androidcentral.com/google-evolve-android-messages-chat-using-rcs-shelve-allo

Looks like everyone wants SMS to die but there isn't a consensus on a replacement. So I can see the use for an unified chat app. Not sure about SMS support however.