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July 24, 2014

Improved texting experience on your Windows 7/XP PC

Posted in mysms news by mysms

mysms users already know that texting on a computer or tablet is awesome. Once you’ve tried it, you don’t want to miss it anymore. After installing mysms on your Android phone, you can send and receive your SMS messages on any other web-enabled device, like your Android tablet, iPad, Windows 8 PC, Mac etc. Today we are releasing a new version of our Windows 7 app, which you can install right away. We are keen to show what has changed.

Why should you use the mysms app for Windows 7/XP?

Our mysms desktop apps are the most convenient way to text while you are in front of a PC. Our apps, which are available for the most popular platforms, allow you to make use of great native features. Modify your notification settings or choose to open the app at the Windows startup and you won’t miss a text and even your calls anymore. We here at mysms want to provide you with the most convenient way to text from all your devices.

What’s new in this version?

During the last month we collected a lot of valuable feedback from you in our support forum. Texting from your Windows 7/XP PC is now even better. We improved the speed of the app and it needs less memory space. In addition to performance optimizations, we integrated new useful features:

Save attachments

When your friends share their happiest moments by sending pictures to you, you just need to open and right-click on the attachment to save it on your hard drive.

Mute notifications
Even though texting on your PC and staying up to date all the time is great, there are some expectations. Especially when you need to focus on finishing work on your computer or when you are in a meeting, it can be advantageous to mute the notifications for a specific amount of time. Right-click on the mysms icon in your system tray and choose “Notifications” to mute them for 30 minutes to 8 hours.

Quickly compose a new reply
When you left-click on the mysms icon in the system tray, a pop up appears. Clicking on this opens the new message view.

Now it’s time to have a look at the app. You can use this link to install the app directly on your computer now or you can download it anytime form our website.

We did our best to provide a fast and reliable app. If you have any questions, please let us know in the comments or on our support forum.

December 19, 2013

Time for celebration: Get our tablet & desktop apps for free!

Posted in mysms news by mysms

We’ve got breaking news for you here at mysms: This year will soon come to an end and we want to celebrate with you! For a limited time we provide all our tablet and desktop apps for free. Thanks for your support throughout the whole year.

Get our premium apps for free!

The year 2013 has been a great one for us. We made it to more than 1M users, launched several cool apps, and with your contribution we were able to implement awesome new features, like the MMS integration or the call log.

At this point we’d also like to thank our greatest users. This thank you is dedicated to the ones who supported us with buying our premium apps, to the ones who took part in our beta testing and to those who constantly assist us in translating the app to make it possible to provide our service in several different languages.

To celebrate our success with you, we provide our tablet & desktop apps for free until year end. So you can use mysms for free on any device. Here are the links to download the apps:

If you are a new user, please install mysms on your smartphone first to set up an account:

So go and get mysms for all your devices and feel free to share this news with your friends! We hope you like our early Christmas gift and are looking forward to an awesome year 2014 🙂

A short hint for our Windows 8 users: Existing users of our Windows 8 app, who are currently in the trial phase and haven’t purchased the app yet, need to uninstall and re-install the app to make use of our promotional offer.

Update October 9, 2014: Starting today we are introducing a new Premium model. We are switching from on-off app purchases to a subscription based model. What does not change is that it’s your decision to pay for mysms or not. We offer the basic version of mysms for free and are not planning to change this. Find more information about mysms Premium here.

October 21, 2013

Setting a new direction for our future mobile developments

Posted in apps, mysms news by mysms

Here at mysms, we always strive to offer you the best texting experience on every device that you use. At the moment we support seven different platforms and distribute mysms in a variety of app stores.

For mobile phones we are currently providing mysms for Android Phone, iPhone and Windows Phone. During the last year we have seen fantastic growth for Android Phone and iPhone clearly outperforming Windows Phone. Therefore, we shifted our developments in this direction, to focus on our best performing platforms. Also, when we started with Windows Phone we were planning to support sending and synchronizing SMS messages, as we do for Android Phone. However, due to restrictions of the operating system there was no possible way to implement this feature. As a small team who aims to reach very high quality standards in all our apps, it was clear that we need to take a decision for Windows Phone.

As a result we have decided that we won’t further release updates to mysms for Windows Phone and will remove the app from the Windows Phone Store. However, if you have mysms already installed on your Windows Phone you can continue to use it.

For similar reasons we will remove all mysms Android apps from Amazon App Store, Androidpit App Center, SlideME, Samsung Application Store and sms.at Smart Zone in the course of this week.

We are excited to be able to concentrate even more on the platforms where we see the greatest potential for mysms. In the upcoming months we have some great features coming up. Stay tuned and feel free to contact us here.

June 4, 2013

mysms for Windows 7/XP comes with new features!

Posted in apps, mysms news by mysms

Are you using Windows 7 or Windows XP? In this case you might have been longing for this news: Now the time has come for our major update for mysms desktop app for Windows 7/XP! We’ve improved the performance and cool new features are waiting for you.

Discover the new features!

A short note before we start introducing the new features: All settings can be found by right-clicking on the mysms icon in the system tray or by clicking on the cogwheel within the app.

Appearance on taskbar

Using the mysms app on your Windows 7/XP PC has become more intuitive and adaptable: To have mysms always right at hand, we would recommend to “run mysms on Windows startup”. Once the app gets started on your computer, the app will remain open in the taskbar per default. This setting is changeable now, so you can also choose to only show the app in the system tray. Moreover, click once on the icon in the tray to show your notifications or double-click to open the app. In case you don’t want mysms to run in the background, right-click on the mysms icon in the system tray and choose “Quit”.

Stay up-to-date with the popup notification

mysms informs you about incoming messages on your desktop via native notifications (tab “Settings” – “Notifications”). You got to know this feature from the previous version, but there are some new options available. You can delete and mark messages as read directly via the popup or click on it to open the conversation.
And the greatest news for some of you: We’ve implemented an option to enable the privacy mode for the popup, meaning that it won’t show the content of your incoming messages in the notification.

Discover the extended notification settings

Getting notified via the popup is not enough for you? In addition you can choose from various ringtones and set them separately for single and group messages – so you know immediately which kind of message you received. In case you don’t like multiple sound notifications or don’t want to receive them when the app is open, there’s also an option available for that.

Sending and receiving texts on your Windows PC is much more fun now, so it’s time to give it a try. You can download mysms for Windows 7/XP FOR FREE directly from our website.

April 24, 2013

[quick tip] Send free invitations to your contacts

Posted in mysms quick tips by mysms

The more friends you have the more fun it is! As you know you can send free messages to other mysms users. Especially if you are an iPhone or Windows Phone user, it’s favorable for you to invite your friends to use mysms as well. Today, we’ll show you how to do so!

Invite your friends to mysms

mysms allows you to send free invitations to all your contacts, no matter if you’re an Android phone, iPhone or Windows Phone user.

Android: In the conversation overview you’ll find the friends button on the right-hand side on top. Scroll to the section “Invite more friends” and click on a contact to send a free invitation. Moreover, next to the group chat button, we provide you with the possibility to send invitations via email or SMS/text. (Please note: If you send an invitation via SMS/text, your existing mobile agreement will be used).

iPhone: Select “mysms friends” in the conversation overview and choose a contact from the list. Additionally, you can tell your friends about mysms on Facebook or Twitter. Just tap on the “thumbs up” icon in the conversation overview.

Windows Phone: Open the conversation overview and wipe to the right. Here you can send free invitations to any of your contacts.

Even on the tablet and desktop apps you’ll find a friends list, where you can send invitations to your contacts from (Android tablet: coming soon).

So, tell your friends about mysms! After one of your contacts has set up an account, you’ll be informed about your new mysms friend.

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