Fossify Messages

★★★☆☆

A decent minimalist SMS/MMS app that doesn’t sync your messages to Google or any other online services. Can archive or delete conversations and block numbers, and handle custom alert sounds per conversation. Pull-down notifications include action buttons for reply-stop, opening links, and copying confirmation codes to the clipboard.

It doesn’t support RCS, and it doesn’t support swipe actions (which is really too bad - it’s so convenient to delete-or-archive that way). You can block a number, but you can’t report it as spam.

MMS support seems a bit flaky - I can receive images, and I can send them to actual phones, but I can’t send images to Google Voice.

Still, it works well enough. Especially if you want to use something like Signal for all your actual conversations and leave texting for automated notices.