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"Online"-free cross-platform mobile *and* desktop messaging?

  • is there a mobile *and* desktop cross-platform messaging system that doesn't require "going online"? Is there a system to "text" my girlfriend more flexibly: • I use iOS, she uses Android for mobile. • I'd like either of us or both to use an internet-connected Mac with a real keyboard. Like iMessage, but cross-platform on mobile. Windows is a plus. • Jabber is cross platform and both mobile and desktop, but as far as I can tell, you have to "go online" (log in) to a server and that connection can't be maintained 24/7 without some battery drain. (or have I got that wrong?) • Off The Record encryption is a plus, but has that "online" problem in the implementations I've seen so far. (IM+, ChatSecure and Adium). • An open protocol like Jabber (XMPP) is a plus. WhatsApp, Viber & Kik seem to do login-free messaging, but only on mobile. Skype, Facebook Messenger and Google Hangouts might fill the bill. They leave privacy in someone else's hands, but I'm still interested in hearing whether they can substitute for SMS (instant-ish notification). Plain ol' email with https://ask.metafilter.com/248279/iOS-IMAP-app-with-selective-notifications almost works but notifications take a minute or 2 instead of seconds and it "feels wrong" to use it for quick hellos.

  • Answer:

    Have you checked WeChat, Kakao, and MessageMe?

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Stick with text messages. Get a second number from Google voice for free and text each other back and forth using your computer. There will be an app so that your phone also gets Google voice texts. Gmail also allows you to send SMS messages for free that the other can reply to from their phone.

jsturgill

Line does what you want... I think.

BabeTheBlueOX

Viber has a desktop client.

deezil

It's ugly as hell on iOS, but I think Viber is pretty much what you're looking for. That or Hangouts. For awhile (before I ended up on Android), my GF and I were doing Hangouts on her end and I had IM+ logged into gchat on mine. It was...okay. I remember there being some annoying things. (Couldn't use Hangouts app because I refuse to have G+ account).

General Malaise

My husband's in Android and I'm on iOS. We use Google Hangouts.

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