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Access to Chat - Android Messages on Desktop Computer. Android Messages for Web. Plus Google Duo for calls and video-calls.
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★★★★★
Receive and send SMS of your Smartphone in your computer! Just sync the QR-Code of Android Messages and it immediately start working. The QR-Code works just like WhatsApp Web.
Text with your friends just like you where in your smartphone 📱 Very Low CPU/RAM/Bandwidth consumption 📌
All Android Messages features available (Chats 💬, Friends, Notifications, Options).
FEATURES
★ Type much faster 🚴 on Android Messages.
★ Share photos and videos stored in your computer 💻
★ Notifications when a new message arrive 📣
★ Extra features: Incognito mode, screenshots, Emojis 👻📷😍
★ Window as Sidebar and toolbox on the Topbar 💊
✔ Small window well positioned 📰
✔ Auto-Start when Google Chrome™ starts.
✔ Configurations in a Options 🔧 section.
✔ See your friends news and edit your profile.
✔ HTTPS and over Android™ Messages platform for maximum security 🔑 No share of credentials to third party 🔓
PREMIUM FEATURES
💧 Theme - Skin Color
🚨 App Booster 🚨
🐗 Support Oinkandstuff
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ABOUT OINKANDSTUFF
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🐗 #OinkAndStuff is certified as 100% Free of malware 🐞 by Softpedia Labs 🔬
💎 +40 Apps for Google Chrome and Android 🔥 +1 Million active users Worldwide 📣
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LEGAL
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Android™ Messages is a trademark of Google Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. This is an independent project developed by Oinkanstuff and has no relationship to Google or Google Inc.
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PRIVACY POLICY & TERMS OF SERVICE
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By installing this product you agree to our privacy policy & terms of service: https://www.oinkandstuff.com/privacy-policy/
We don’t store, access, transmit or share any sensitive or user private information.
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REQUIRED PERMISSIONS
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"notifications" - Used to send desktop notification. For example when a new message arrive or App is updated.
"contextMenus" - Allow to add more settings when right click in the App icon in the browser toolbar and browser context menu.
"storage" - Used to save settings on your local computer.
"unlimitedStorage" - Storage is limited to 5MB of data that may not be enough to store all configs.
"webRequest" & "webRequestBlocking" - Used to intercept some requests and modify x-frame-options or user-agent in order to provide you the mobile/smartphone version of the app (lighter, faster, less internet consumption and run as Sidebar) and also run the webpage in a background iframe (so that you can have real-time silent notifications in the App icon on the browser toolbar as a badge counter).
"<all_urls>" - We cannot predict ahead of time witch hosts/domains we must modify in order to provide the desired functionality detailed in the webRequest permission. It also allows that you can share content (links or text) from other pages directly to inside the App and send it as a SMS/Android message to a friend for example. Also used to allow intercommunication with other oinkandstuff Apps (i.e. Emojis Keyboard).
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CHANGELOG & RELEASE NOTES
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Available on the product page: https://www.oinkandstuff.com/project/web-for-android-messages/#changelog
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FINAL NOTES
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This information is also available inside the App: Options -> About
Latest reviews
- (2020-01-24) Rick Duval: Works great EXCEPT it loses connection to my phone multiple times during the day. Other than that it does exactly what I need and I don't mind paying for it, well worth it. WHEN IT WORKS. Hopefully the connection issue will get fixed. Oh and I wish I could search conversations or at least contacts.
- (2020-01-18) Staff Lead: I uninstalled. I'm being generous with 3 stars but I'm just a nice person. I appreciate developers effort to make something special though. Several failures but I won't go into it here.
- (2020-01-10) stevan antic: cool but, app wont notify when sms or fb msg recieved
- (2019-12-24) Wade Covington: I love the app - but it is much more unreliable than pushbullet which I used for years previously. This app is fine most of the time, but inconveniently, all the sudden, it either will not stay connected or it doesn't send a message (without my knowledge).
- (2019-10-08) Lisa B: This has worked really well for me! I've also liked the ability to switch from texting to fb messenger. Super helpful for staying in touch with friends and family without looking like I'm on my phone all day at work!
- (2019-07-03) Benjamin Selzer: Good. Glad you can remove the ugly blue bar at the top. The buttons on the lower right get in the way.
- (2019-06-14) Brad Cupit: completely meets my needs of being able to text from a computer without having to scan a QR code every time only suggestions: * it'd be nice if the notification stayed up until I acknowledged it * it would be nice to keep it running even after the browser closes (the google hangouts extension does this)
- (2019-05-01) Виктор Михеев: отличная программа. не хватает счетчики вводимых знаков и начать чат с номера не из записной книжки. а в целом я рад, пользуюсь с удовольствием, жду изменений к улучшению функций
- (2019-03-16) Duyen Vo: I remembered this app being much simpler without all the unnecessary add-on's. I switched laptops and was re-installing this specific extension, and now I have ads and extra tools that just take up unnecessary window space which I was trying to avoid by downloading the extension. For those of you who just want a pop-out messenger, download this extension: "open as popup": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/open-as-popup/ncppfjladdkdaemaghochfikpmghbcpc?hl=en-US and then bookmark/ open up: https://messages.android.com, and boom there ya go - A simple, pop out messenger with no frills :D
- (2019-03-15) Wil Wells: The only complaint I have about this app is the fact that every time you bring up the emoticon browser, it takes ~10 seconds to load **every time**. Hello, emoticons don't change daily let alone monthly. Use cache and update once a day. Otherwise, I love this extension, and how it runs in it's own window. One suggestion would be to allow it to minimize to the system tray (not task bar)
- (2019-02-28) غرمان الشهري: سيئ للغاية عند انفصال الواي فاي يكون انقطع الاتصال بين الحاسب والجوال
- (2019-02-21) Robert Newmark: When it is working properly 40% of the time it is very good. It is the 60% when it loses a connection and when you refresh it loses the message you were trying to send (I now copy the message before doing a refresh). If I could find another non-gmail product I would drop this one in a heartbeat.
- (2019-01-22) Mario Garcia: Apparently, I am not the only one? I constantly have to reconnect and find myself going back to my phone because either A) I am not sure if this app actually has the latest messages, or B) I realized that app is no longer working and have to use my phone. I actually like this app and the features that are available. Especially the addition of the .gifs ... that was a big deal for me. But coming from Google Hangouts to Android Messages, all the while on a Google Pixel, it should allow me to use this seamlessly. I work in a place that I can use all the apps I want on my computer, but am severely limited to use my phone. Hangouts was completely reliable on my computer... should I switch back? Editing to add that for the past 40 minutes, I have had the revolving, blue spinner... plaguing this app, mocking me like a devious face that I can't see. I have tried the refresh button, Logging Out and back in, restarting the app, removing and re-adding the app, opening the program via Chrome Browser (up to date, btw), Closing the Chrome Browser and repeating these steps, and even going to the extent of restarting the whole computer. One Step further... I have tried the above mentioned steps at different times over the past few months with my work computer (Windows 10), my surface pro 3 (Windows 8.1 or something), and my Samsung computer (Windows 10). The max amount of time that I have seen it spin to win is a total of 3 hours. I think that I may have answered my own question (sorry for the rant)... must be time to switch back to hangouts. I will switch back by Feb 1st if there is no answer by Oinkandstuff, or if there is no change in reliability.
- (2019-01-17) Ian Henne: Easy to use and does not glitch like other messaging platforms.
- (2019-01-01) ABDULL ALFEHAID: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/white-messenger/pdbmjcciabkmhbnmibcaicfmhbcapogh?hl=ar
- (2018-12-19) Malcolm H: Review of extension app on Pixelbook Crhome OS: It sort of works...sometimes. It's mostly very frustrating as it is highly unreliable. It continually has to reconnect and, when doing so, is completely useless and, often, does't reconnect and just dies and can not reconnect. Absolutely frustrating. I'm going to look at Apple products for the first time ever. This severe lack of software optimization is awful and intolerable really, especially when the PIxelbook costs as much as it does.
- (2018-12-06) Sam Selfridge: Ads.....hell no. Pushbullet SMS is way better for screen real estate and doesn't try to sell me stuff.
- (2018-10-03) Stephane Poissant: Should be intergrated to main window or a popup that dissapear on it's own. It is annoying that it opens up another page. Another point: It is not as efficient in terms of speed in comparison to Mighty and others. There is a serious lack on this point. => should be improved in the very near futur. Personally, I am going back to competitor's app. Please keep up the updates and try to come up with something more up to date and les 95's. Thanks
- (2018-09-19) Curtis Shimamoto: I grabbed this because it was all that was available on the initial release of Android Messages for Web. It really doesn't do much more than open the https://messages.android.com site in a separate window, absent of any window decorations and address bar. But the inclusion of all the other annoying things that had little to nothing in relation to the core functionality is was a bit of a turnoff. The "Premium Features" is pretty useless, and although the dev seems to listen and fix things complained about, which included allowing removal of the additional "toolbars" that this extension added, I still feel that the alternative Android Messages Launcher or other variant that just sticks to letting the webapp speak for itself is probably the better way to go. Sorry dev, you don't seem like a bad person and actually do a pretty great job being responsive to your users... and you filled a need of mine for a time, so thanks.
- (2018-09-16) Connor Waldo: It's nice that it auto starts, but can you add the option for it to notify me if a new text comes in? Why not just mimic how the notifications, minimization of the Google Hangout's plugin works? If this functioned like that plugin, you guys would be on to something. I'll change my rating to a 5 star once notifications are implemented.
- (2018-09-08) carl marc: Works like I thought it should. Great app
- (2018-08-25) Nuclear Donut: Very useful tool.
- (2018-08-24) Muhammet Akbaş: ne kadar güveni orası tartışılır ama güzel
- (2018-08-12) Dava Bergeron: This extension was interesting (the toolbar looks like it's from 2003 or so, but it does work). All until it sarted to display what seemed ads that took about half its window containing what seemed like fishing attempts... NO THANK YOU
- (2018-07-30) Josh Martin: Seems functional, would give 5 stars if the app stayed in the browser when clicking the extension button instead of popping out into its own window. Similar to PushBullet.
- (2018-07-24) iMobile Toyz: works great, just need to add a message search feature like other messaging extension.
- (2018-07-15) Crissie Luckey: Takes up way too much monitor space. Disconnects each time my browser shuts down. Such hassle makes it practically useless, so I just use gVoice extension for Chrome that opens right in the same window as your browser tab without need to switch back and forth or reconnect each time you open it for a new session.
- (2018-07-03) Ryan Merchant: One tidbit for the developer: In chrome extensions, I would like to set a keyboard shortcut to open Android Messages. I currently have it set to alt+s, but I can't make it global because "activate extension" doesn't work with global shortcuts. Maybe look into this so we have a way of clicking one shortcut to activate android messages from anywhere?
- (2018-07-02) Dan Torrey: Like Android Messages, it's functional but ultimately leaves me unsatisfied. It takes up too much real estate on my destop for the amount of content it delivers. Would benefit from smaller font and less dead space.
Latest issues
- (2019-12-05, v:2.2) Vilém Kouba: Prosím vrátit peníze ze Theme - Skin Color
Toto rozšíření nesplnilo moje očekávání. Předem děkuji za vyřízení - (2019-09-13, v:2.2) Megen G: incognito
The incognito view is really weak and not that hard to read through, i'd like to be able to control the opacity of that privacy shield. - (2019-06-06, v:2.1) Sandy Rand: Deletions
Would like to select multiple texts and delete them with one click. Thanks, Sandy - (2018-12-19, v:1.7) Malcolm H: waited a while for the app for my Pixelbook but is very unreliable
the messages app on my Pixelbook continually seems to be trying to reconnect and I have good wifi so that's not the issue. As it constantly/intermittently has to re-connect, messages are very delayed being pushed through and I spend more time staring at the circling of the drain (as it were) watching the app try for very lengthy re-connections and, therefore, makes for a continually very frustrating usage and a lot of wasted time staring at a failing app. Please fix. - (2018-12-12, v:1.6) Federico Roesch: Instructions seem not to work on Note 8 Phone, No message for Web available.
Instructions seem not to work on Note 8 Phone, No message for Web available. - (2018-10-26, v:1.5) Filipe Brandão: Don´t memorize PC
Hello! Every time I open the app, I must read the QR code, and I put the option "memorize this pc" ON, but the next time the same happens... Can you help? Thanks - (2018-08-03, v:1.4) Allen Miller.: Feature?
It would be nice if you had an option for a 'signature' to be auto appended to SMS. Frequently I need to send a text to people that will not recognize my mobile number so I would like to append Name. THanks. - (2018-07-18, v:1.4) Steven Cooper: Permissions ask for too much
Thank you John. I'm concerned that your extension gives you permission to "read and change all your data on the websites you visit." I saw in another reply that you said this is misleading. However, I've also used Mighty Text's extension and they ask for permission to: "Read and change your data on a number of websites All facebook.com sites mail.google.com mighty-app.appspot.com textyserver.appspot.com" I don't think that you should ask for the ability to read and change data for any websites that aren't yours. I'm not trying to be difficult here, but that's a huge ask. « collap - (2018-07-18, v:1.4) Steven Cooper: Extension vs. Android website?
Hi. Today I installed the new messages app on my phone and synced it with the messages.android.com website in chrome. Can you tell me what the advantage of using this chrome extension is? Maybe you have it written somewhere? Specifically, I'm interested in the differences between this extension and the website. Thanks! - (2018-07-13, v:1.4) jason hu: will the premium theme adjust the font and space?
will the premium theme adjust the font and space? if so, I will purchase it - (2018-07-13, v:1.4) jason hu: can you hide the 3 icons next to SMS input
can you hide the 3 icons next to SMS input? they are pretty much useless, I have to use Adblock to hide them now.
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7,677
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Rating
3.48 (50 votes)
Last update / version
2020-02-03 / 2.3
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