Now, I have been using iRealSMS for quite some time now. It’s decent and all, but it just has too many bugs, and the devs haven’t released an update in a good while. So, I decided to look elsewhere for my messaging needs, and I came up to BiteSMS. BiteSMS includes four things, their own network for you to send messages out of, a replacement SMS app, quickreply, and quickcompose. Overall, I have been very satisfied with the app in general.

The Bite Network is a network of it’s own where you can send messages from, rather than your carrier. The prices are much cheaper. At 12 cents per message, I agree (in the U.S.). You can buy credits right from inside the app. (Each credit allows you to send one message) To enable sending from the Bite network you can either go into the setttings and do so, or you can hold down the send button until it turns pink.

Next, the replacement app offers the ability to view the contacts pictures for each conversation. Then, when you go into a conversation, and you highlight a message like you were going to copy it, you can see the timestamp for that message, which I love. The last difference is that there’s a button on top that goes to the app’s settings.

Quickreply and quickcompose are the two most needed built in features for the iPhone. In my opinion, Bite does the best job to implement it. When you get a text, quickreply pops up, and you can mark any message you get as read or unread by checking or unchecking a blue bubble on the left of the popup. Also, there’s a button to open the message in the actually app, or to call the person texting you! It is bug free, so naturally it’s better than iReal’s version.

And finally quickcompose, all you have to do is touch volume up then touch the screen. Both quickreply and quickcompose work on the lockscreen. For quickreply touch the little pink box when you get a message to activate quickreply, and for quickcompose just put the volume up. You can hide the popup by pressing the x in the top right corner, or you can press the home button.

BiteSMS has devs who are quick to respond, and are quick to develop. They offer two types of licenses, one 12 month one you get when you buy credits, and one lifetime one, which is 9 dollars. For anyone who texts at least 200 messages a month I suggest this, it will be a lot better than having to go into the messages app to reply, and it will be a lot better than any other messaging replacement app out there. There’s a beta repo that you can find on their website, bitesms.com. It has the most up to date version, which is the one I reviewed.

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