Alternative to Google's "Messages" app (for SMS) on Android?

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Alternative to Google's "Messages" app (for SMS) on Android? - SDF Chatter

Does anyone know of an open-source alternative to Google’s “Messages” app [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging], which takes care of SMS/text messages on my phone? I was looking for open-source alternatives on PlayStore and F-Droid [https://f-droid.org/] but can’t really find anything – most apps seem to target some extra purpose than simply handling SMSs. Cheers!

I wonder if any of these listed alternatives support RCS, SMS/MMS is an incredibly old and insecure
RCS is proprietary. Very unlikely there will ever be an implementation that is open source or foundation driven.
Rcs isn’t proprietary, google hasn’t given anyone the tools to develop with it on Android.

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