Bruinator Posted October 23 Share Posted October 23 Looking for a program that will allow a person to text from windows laptop to either a MAC or android phone which is easy to use. Can some of you recommend a free software which does this please? Thank you Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1448018-text-software/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted October 23 MVC Share Posted October 23 Something like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger? Bruinator 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1448018-text-software/#findComment-598941027 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted October 23 Share Posted October 23 On 23/10/2024 at 17:07, Bruinator said: Looking for a program that will allow a person to text from windows laptop to either a MAC or android phone which is easy to use. Can some of you recommend a free software which does this please? Thank you If your phone is compatible, Phone Link works exceedingly well and is free. Lots of functionality, including handling text messages. Bruinator, goretsky and Xenon 3 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1448018-text-software/#findComment-598941028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruinator Posted October 24 Author Share Posted October 24 On 23/10/2024 at 17:16, virtorio said: Something like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger? @Virtorio, For some reason, using the contact I have , only one person has the text I sent from my windows PC and 2 hasnt. What could be causing this issue? What to do to fix it as well. Thx Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1448018-text-software/#findComment-598941144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted October 24 MVC Share Posted October 24 Are they using the same service that you're using, as they need to to be in the case of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. If you're looking for a tool to send SMS text messages you could use Phone Link (as Max Norris suggested) or, if you use Google Messages on your phone, you can use Google Messenger for web - https://messages.google.com/. Bruinator 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1448018-text-software/#findComment-598941310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted October 24 Share Posted October 24 (edited) Another one I used to use before Phone Link became a thing was Pushbullet. Not free but reasonably priced, like 39 for a year if I recall. Nowhere near as fancy as Phone Link and it's confined to your browser, but still worked very well for SMS and notification handling and not a Windows exclusive. I've given it up a while back for Phone Link but if that wasn't an option I'd likely go back to it. Bruinator and +Warwagon 1 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1448018-text-software/#findComment-598941319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yogurth Posted October 25 Share Posted October 25 Viber has support for almost every platform, completely free and with end to end encryption. Text, calls, groups. Bruinator 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1448018-text-software/#findComment-598941422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted October 25 Supervisor Share Posted October 25 Hello, Have you checked to see if their phone carrier has an email-to-SMS gateway? If so, you may be able to send messages that way. For example, AT&T's gateway is the phone number plus @txt.att.net, so if the person you wish to text has AT&T and their phone number is (800) 555-1212, you could send them a SMS message at 8005551212@txt.att.net. Similar services exist for T-Mobile (8005551212@tmomail.net) and Verizon (8005551212@vtext.com), and you can likely find other carriers by searching for "mail to SMS for $CARRIER_NAME" in your preferred search engine. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Bruinator 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1448018-text-software/#findComment-598941638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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