GrapheneOS Messages app
Shares rank 44 of 48 messaging apps by recommenders
Free messaging app for GrapheneOS, rewritten with Jetpack Compose and Material You to match the system UI. Most common caveat: RCS is still not supported.
Free messaging app for GrapheneOS, rewritten with Jetpack Compose and Material You to match the system UI. Most common caveat: RCS is still not supported.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 9
- approval share
- 36%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Modern Jetpack Compose and Material You
“Good news! GrapheneOS has ported Messaging to kotlin, jetpack compose, and material you.”
Comment from 12 Sep 2026 in “GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released” “it definitely looks nicer”
Comment from 12 Sep 2026 in “GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Bugs with contact names and links
“I had a scary bug on an older version where for months the contact names didnt match the actual senders/recipients.”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released” “It's all 'links' (phone numbers, URLs etc) that are broken.”
Comment from 12 Sep 2026 in “GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released” Feels basic and lacks search
“the messaging app felt like baby's first texting app”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released” “still no search fonction ?”
Comment from 12 Sep 2026 in “GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released”
Other messaging apps people recommend
The four most recommended other messaging apps, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 48 messaging apps, rankedWhat people said
All 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Messaging app is a bit a laggy.”
“this will be just another Google messages app clone”
“recently they released this Messages update”
“still no search fonction ?”
“It's all 'links' (phone numbers, URLs etc) that are broken.”
“I'm still waiting until RCS is supported before I actually use it.”
“At least it is now consistent with the rest of the OSs UI.”
“Good news! GrapheneOS has ported Messaging to kotlin, jetpack compose, and material you.”
“it definitely looks nicer”
“I suspect there are fewer regressions per release on graphenes alpha messenger”
“absolutely no reason for any UI to implement them as secondary or tertiary details”
“Messaging can be replaced with one of the hundreds decent messaging apps.”
“I had a scary bug on an older version where for months the contact names didnt match the actual senders/recipients.”
“It's doubly disappointing because just 4 days ago the project wrote”
“the messaging app felt like baby's first texting app”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.