check and reply SMS from Windows, Mac and Linux

A couple of years ago, Google activated the web version of Messages for everyone: an easy way to send SMS messages from a PC, similar to how WhatsApp Web works. Now, unlike WhatsApp Web, Messages does not have a native application for any platform: only a web version.

This is where third party clients come in. One of the latest is created by NaranjaDragón, from Open Source and that is basically a wrapper of the web version, but as a stand-alone application, better notifications and being able to show its icon in the Windows notification area.

Application for those who send many SMS

Android Messages, or simply Messages, is the closest thing to iOS iMessage that we have on Android. It is Google’s SMS application and the one that is installed in a good part of Android terminals, and includes some added functions such as chat functions or the possibility of consulting and responding to your messages from a PC, with its web version.

To do this, Google launched a web version a couple of years ago in which, after logging in by scanning a QR code with your mobile, you can reply to messages from any moderately modern browser. Web messaging works pretty well, though it’s still a web app inside the browser, for better or worse.

As a web app, notifications are still managed by the browser and cannot be integrated into the operating system like other native apps. That’s where third-party PC clients come in: they’re the web version packed with a few extra features, useful for those who make heavy use of Messages from PC.

At the moment, the only changes in this Android Messages client is that it is a separate app, which can be included in the Windows notification area and with your own, more configurable notification system. From the application settings you can choose if you want the content of the messages you receive to be shown in the notifications, as well as if you want them to have sound or not.

It is an open source project, available on Github and has compiled versions ready to download and use for Linux, Mac and Windows (portable and installable). The use is exactly the same as the web version of Messages: you must scan the QR code with your mobile, opening the Messages application and choosing Web version Messages in the menu.

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They create a PC client for the web version of Messages: check and reply to SMS from Windows, Mac and Linux