AirDroid, Pushbullet and MightyText

[Kneedragger]

I was looking at these apps and really like the idea of being able to text from PC. Now how exactly do these apps make this happen? Do I need to create an account with their servers and these features run through their servers or do they just communicate locally where my PC is?
I think I was looking at Airdroid and notice they want you to create an account. With all the servers getting hacked lately I start to think about all this now..

Does Lollipop have this feature built in by chance? I know this update will becoming to my phone soon..

Thanks

 

[poofyhairguy]

I use mighty text, but I might quit given Hangouts integration for calling and messaging.

 

[shabby]

Do I need to create an account with their servers and these features run through their servers or do they just communicate locally where my PC is?

They communicate locally over wifi, airdroid runs a server on the phone and you basically connect to it through a browser.

 

[soccerballtux]

I started with airdroid and moved to mightytext after a friend tipped me off. I don't know what teh point of having a GUI interface in my webbrowser to visually copy files off and on is for when all I wanted twas texting. Mightytext is way more efficient at doing this and saves tons of battery life from all the screen on'ing.

Some people like pushbullet, I tried it seemed poorly implemented and didn't do anything. This was a year ago or so.

phone talks via Wifi or LTE if you don't have wifi, to the servers. your PC talks straight to the servers too.

I leave Wifi enabled (never enter low power) because it uses 3% of my battery life to have it on all day and that ensures mightytext keeps work.

They're a great idea, I absolutely love MightyText. I'm not sure why they don't make you pay for it or something.

 

[gorcorps]

Mightytext is great, I use it all the time

 

[Kneedragger]

Right on guys thanks for the info.

 

[sweenish]

I started with airdroid and moved to mightytext after a friend tipped me off. I don't know what teh point of having a GUI interface in my webbrowser to visually copy files off and on is for when all I wanted twas texting. Mightytext is way more efficient at doing this and saves tons of battery life from all the screen on'ing.

Some people like pushbullet, I tried it seemed poorly implemented and didn't do anything. This was a year ago or so.

phone talks via Wifi or LTE if you don't have wifi, to the servers. your PC talks straight to the servers too.

I leave Wifi enabled (never enter low power) because it uses 3% of my battery life to have it on all day and that ensures mightytext keeps work.

They're a great idea, I absolutely love MightyText. I'm not sure why they don't make you pay for it or something.

In the realm of texting, Pushbullet only finished that feature up in the last couple months.

Otherwise it sounds like the features Pushbullet offers simply aren't what you wanted. For me, what it does, it does great.

 

[Dulanic]

Right on guys thanks for the info.

^^^ I LOVE mighttext. I send text messages via my PC all the time and it makes it so I don't have to pick up my phone just to respond to a message.

 

[sm625]

Imagine you are sitting at your pc and you send a mightytext text over your phone to your friends phone, and your friend also happens to be at their pc using mightytext. And they text you back, from their pc through their phone, to your phone, and all the way back to your pc. Congrats! You have now found a way to do IM while being charged SMS rates! We've come so far in just 15 short years...

 

[Kneedragger]

^^^ I LOVE mighttext. I send text messages via my PC all the time and it makes it so I don't have to pick up my phone just to respond to a message.

Gave it a try and like it but noticed the text messages on the phone still show up unread. Not a huge deal but another step to perform..

 

[KentState]

Imagine you are sitting at your pc and you send a mightytext text over your phone to your friends phone, and your friend also happens to be at their pc using mightytext. And they text you back, from their pc through their phone, to your phone, and all the way back to your pc. Congrats! You have now found a way to do IM while being charged SMS rates! We've come so far in just 15 short years...

Who in the last 2 years gets charged for SMS? Pretty much included in every post paid plan.

 

[RossMAN]

Gave it a try and like it but noticed the text messages on the phone still show up unread. Not a huge deal but another step to perform..

Hmmn I never thought of that or ignored it, I'll have to test that tomorrow with my wife's cell.

 

[ControlD]

Who in the last 2 years gets charged for SMS? Pretty much included in every post paid plan.

I get charged if I go over a certain number of texts in a month (on Verizon). I think it is 500 messages per line.

 

[Kneedragger]

Ok so I also gave Airdroid a try and you can actually avoid creating a account with them and just access phone over wife in a browser. Seems to load webpage faster that MightyText.

 

[RossMAN]

I'm giving pushbullet a shot but can I access it without logging in using gmail?

 

[Kneedragger]

I'm giving pushbullet a shot but can I access it without logging in using gmail?

I also found that with Airdroid you can use it without needing to log into anything.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Hmmn I never thought of that or ignored it, I'll have to test that tomorrow with my wife's cell.

True, but the point is to get off SMS in the first place. All these SMS integration attempts are just prolonging SMS.

I'm here in Asia and no one knows wtf an SMS is and why Americans are obsessed with it. Get on a mobile chat client and be done.

 

[ThinClient]

For those of us who use Mighty Text (I absolutely love it, thanks Ross), there's an app out to run on your phone that is basically a skin for texting when you have to do it on your phone.

I don't like my phone's texting interface, so I might give Mighty Text's new app a try.

It's called SimplyText.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.supertext.phone (I hope this link works)

I can't stand Hangouts because of how intrusive and cumbersome the interface is.

 

[destrekor]

MightyText absolutely kills my battery and keeps my phone awake too long. That said, I can go days without many texts, and then days at a time when the group text with my group of buddies is going nuts.

We all used to use Hangouts, and I miss it so. It natively integrated with the PC through Chrome, a nice IM-style client actually.
However we wanted to include the one buddy who has refused to upgrade from an ancient smartphone, even when phones like the G3 or Moto X (2014) are free. This is killing me, I want to drag him to a Verizon store and fix this immediately. I miss Hangouts, screw SMS/MMS. If I can respond and blast away messages easily on my PC, I'll do that. But dammit, having a notification server on the phone really hit my battery life when the texting was heavy. If it was always just a handful a day, it would probably be fine.

 

[podspi]

How well does Simplytext work? This was actually one of my (and many other people's I'm sure) suggestion to them,to fix the Mms messages not showing up, as well as messages not being marked read correctly.

A lot of the reviews indicate Simplytext can't do group messaging, which makes it a non-starter for me right now.

 

[Kneedragger]

How well does Simplytext work? This was actually one of my (and many other people's I'm sure) suggestion to them,to fix the Mms messages not showing up, as well as messages not being marked read correctly.

A lot of the reviews indicate Simplytext can't do group messaging, which makes it a non-starter for me right now.

From what I've seen I don't think group text work with any of these apps.

 

[RossMAN]

I just discovered a cool MightyText feature, it can ring your phone.

75% of the time my phone is on silent/vibrate, while on vibrate I clicked "find my phone" or whatever it's called and it made a noise!

 

[Dulanic]

I just discovered a cool MightyText feature, it can ring your phone.

75% of the time my phone is on silent/vibrate, while on vibrate I clicked "find my phone" or whatever it's called and it made a noise!

I gave up mighty text since hangouts kind of took it's place and I moved my cell # over to google voice. But can't you already just do this with android device manager?

 

[holden j caufield]

why not just use google voice, it integrates with hangouts, you can text right from your browser, you can get emails for every text to your gmail so you have a log of all texts regardless of which phone you switch to or sim

 

[soccerballtux]

In the realm of texting, Pushbullet only finished that feature up in the last couple months.

Otherwise it sounds like the features Pushbullet offers simply aren't what you wanted. For me, what it does, it does great.

yeah.

I tried it again per the recommendation of a friend, there's no threaded interface for the texts like there is with MightyText-- you can send texts to people, but that requires clicking the button and typing their name each time. What I was looking for was something to let me have complete messaging conversations on the desktop, like if I were using a native chat/IM client like Pidgin or Yahoo or Skype. MightyText does this fantastically, and I don't see how anyone could be comfortable with only using pushbullet.