October 9, 2014

Discover mysms Premium for powerful texting

Posted in mysms news by mysms

More than 3 years ago we started enhancing everyone’s texting life with mysms. We have been developing high quality apps for the most popular platforms to make texting more convenient in every situation. mysms has been growing fast and we included uncountable great features to ensure that mysms is the best choice on any of your devices – your smartphone, computer or tablet.

 

Today we are introducing mysms Premium which includes features that are tailored to the needs of people who are looking for a possibility to better organize their messages and calls.

 

Introducing mysms Premium

Introducing mysms Premium

mysms Premium at a glance

mysms Premium includes powerful features that make texting even more convenient – you will never lose your messages, are up to date of your messages and your calls, receive fast and customized support from our customer service and even more. These are our current Premium features:

Backup & restore your messages

Backup & restore

Backup & restore your text messages

Never panic again if you lose your phone, reset your phone or if you simply get a new device. mysms keeps your messages secure in the mysms cloud and restores them when needed.

Manage your calls on your computer & tablet

Call feature

Manage your calls on any device

Stay up to date on your calls on your computer or tablet. Receive notifications for incoming calls or answer, start, mute or dismiss a call remotely (please keep in mind that you still need to talk on your phone).

Mirror your messages to another phone

mysms mirror

Mirror your SMS to another phone

You own two smartphones, but don’t want to carry both with you all the time? Use mysms mirror on the phone you have right at your hand to manage the messages and calls from your other phone.

Archive your messages to the cloud service of your choice

SMS archiving

Archive your messages to your favorite cloud service or email account

As an additional storage to the mysms cloud we integrated popular cloud services to archive your texts. You can secure your texts in your Evernote, Dropbox or Google Drive account or forward them to your email account.

Export your entire SMS inbox

SMS Export

Export your entire SMS inbox

With the SMS export feature all your messages that are saved in the mysms cloud are summarized and exported in one single .CSV file. It gives an overview of all your messages that you can access offline.

Contact our customer service

Customer support

Fast & friendly customer service

For any of your questions regarding mysms, our customer service will have a sympathetic ear. We will take care of your requests as fast as possible and will answer them at least within 24 hours on business days.

You will find some more information in our FAQ, just take a quick look. But we won’t stop here. We are planning to extend our Premium offer with some more enhancing features in the upcoming months.

 

How to go Premium

Everyone who owns an Android phone and successfully registers for a mysms account can become a mysms Premium user. There are several options available to activate the Premium features. You will find one of these options in the menu – just click on “Premium”. The current pricing for mysms Premium is available on our Premium site.

How to activate mysms Premium

How to activate mysms Premium

 

We hope our Premium offer meets your needs. Of course it is still your own choice whether you want to pay for mysms. Our basic feature set is available to you without any costs, and we are not planning to change this.

 

Are you ready to go Premium? Download the latest version for Android phone and subscribe now to benefit from our extended feature set.

September 29, 2014

Use shortcuts to text even faster [quick tip]

Posted in mysms quick tips by mysms

mysms users who are fans of our desktop apps know how convenient it is to use a larger keyboard for texting. But did you also know that you can use several shortcuts on your computer to text even faster?

Shortcuts for the mysms desktop apps

Shortcuts for the mysms desktop apps

These are the most useful shortcuts that are available in our Windows 7/XP, Windows 8, Mac or web app:

 

CTRL/CMD + N = New message (Windows 7/XP, Mac)

CTRL/CMD + ALT + N = New message (web app)

CTRL/CMD + UP = Switch to a upper conversation

CTRL/CMD + DOWN = Switch to a lower conversation

 

Depending on the option you chose in your desktop app or web app settings:

CTRL/SHIFT/CMD + ENTER = Send message

ENTER = Send message (not available for Windows 8)

 

General shortcuts for the Windows and web app

CTRL + X = Cut a text

CTRL + C = Copy a text

CTRL + V = Paste copied text

CTRL + A = Mark all text

ALT + F4 = Minimize app window

 

General shortcuts for the Mac app

CMD + X = Cut a text

CMD + C = Copy a text

CMD + V = Paste copied text

CMD + A = Mark all text

CMD + M = Minimize app window

CMD + H = Hide app window

CMD + L = Unhide app window

CMD + Q = Quit app

 

Have you already been using some of these shortcuts in the mysms apps?

September 9, 2014

Export your entire SMS inbox to access your messages offline

Posted in mysms news by mysms

With mysms your messages are always by your side on all your devices. They are saved in the mysms cloud and available on your smartphone, tablet, desktop or any other web-enabled device. In addition we provide several plugins that serve as an additional storage for your beloved SMS.

Export your SMS & MMS

Export your SMS & MMS

In addition to the archiving plugins that automatically save texts to your Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive or Email account, we added an awesome feature:

 

The SMS export feature allows you to save your entire SMS inbox. With a few clicks all your messages that are saved in the mysms cloud (not only new ones) are sent to your email account in a single .CSV file. This allows you to backup your texts anytime and to manage your texts even when you are offline. It is great way to manage your messages with these plugins as your texts are even available if you delete them from the mysms cloud.

 

You’ll find the SMS export feature under the same option as the archiving feature in the mysms settings on your Android phone (“SMS archiving”) or in the web app (“Dropbox, GDrive, Evernote, Email”). Go to “SMS Export” at the bottom of the screen. Then enter your email address and confirm this action by clicking “Export & send file”. We’ll send a zipped CSV file to your email account that includes all your SMS & MMS that are saved in the mysms cloud. Attachments are excluded.

 

Are you a fan of our archiving or export plugins? Do you prefer to backup your texts with an additional service?

 

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Please note that the SMS export feature serves as additional storage for your messages, but it is not possible to restore your messages with this file.

September 4, 2014

Android 4.4: Text from your computer without using mysms as your default SMS app

Posted in mysms news by mysms

We here at mysms aim to provide you with the most awesome texting experience across all platforms. We believe that mysms is the best choice for all your devices, but we particularly want to provide you with the possibility to text from your computer. Especially for those of you who spend a lot of time in the office in front of a desktop screen, it is simply much more convenient. Therefore, we’ve got great news for our users who enjoy texting from the computer with mysms, but prefer another default SMS app on their phone.

Use mysms to text on any device

Use mysms to text on any device

With the release of Android 4.4 (KitKat) Google introduced a concept that allows only one app to be set as default SMS app. That means only your selected app can fully manage the SMS database on your phone. This is a change of the operating system we cannot influence.

 

Until now it was hardly possible to use our service on the desktop or tablet, if mysms was not actively used on the phone (under Android 4.4). With this update we’ve implemented a solution for Android KitKat users who prefer another SMS app on the smartphone. In this case texting on your computer with mysms works flawlessly again by using the latest of the mysms app for Android phone! You can download the update from the Google Play Store:

Download mysms for Android phone

Download the update

 

Due to the change of Google’s Android 4.4 we’re only able offer our entire feature set if mysms is used as default SMS app. Please keep the different functionality in mind, which is shown in the following list:

 

mysms as default:
YES
mysms as default:
NO
Receive SMS & MMS on any device
Send texts & MMS on any device
(MMS sent from your desktop/tablet will not be shown on phone)
Send & receive mysms friends messages X
Delete messages
(messages deleted on one device are also deleted on other devices)
X
(messages deleted on your desktop/tablet are still visible on your phone)
Mark messages as read on all devices
(messages read on one device are also marked as read on other devices)
X
(messages stay marked as new/unread on your phone)
Restore your message on a new device (e.g. if you get a new phone) X

 

You know that we honestly appreciate your feedback. We would be glad, if you share your experience with the update with us. Also, feel free to tell us why you don’t want to use mysms as your default texting app. What should we improve in your opinion?

Last update: November 25, 2014

August 11, 2014

Share beautiful moments with sending pics on your iPad

Posted in mysms news by mysms

You have told us that sending MMS, especially pics, is a very important feature for you. Sharing your happiest moments via mysms for iPad has become more beautiful with the latest update. Let’s have a look at the changes.

 

This is how the pictures have been displayed in our iPad app before:

Previous picture view

Previous picture view

 

After installing the latest update, you will experience a new attachment view. The thumbnail of your beautiful pictures has been enlarged and a blurring effect has been implemented for the loading process:

New beautiful picture display

New beautiful picture display

 

What do you think about this improvement? Are you a heavy MMS user?