Free text apps offer different features than the SMS texting app built into your iPhone or Android phone.

Although SMS remains the only way to be sure of reaching anyone with a mobile number, in any country, very few apps currently support it. That’s partly due to the age of the protocol, and partly to ...

Do you pay for text messaging? If you have a smartphone, you don’t have to. There are plenty of mobile messaging app alternatives that you can try at no cost. They work with different types of phones, ...

Apple and Google have added useful features to texting apps, yet the apps still lack a major component: an effective way to set limits. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s personal ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...