Clear SMS
- Fixed picture messages failing to download on some phones.
- A failed download now records why in the diagnostic report
- Lint fixes for maintaining code better
Smart inbox
- Messages are automatically sorted into Important, Promotional, Personal, OTP and Unknown using a transparent, regex-based rules engine - no ML black box, every rule is human-readable JSON you can inspect and edit.
- 390+ community-maintained rules plus a 715k sender-ID directory.
- Full-text search with category and time filters, heuristic scam-awareness flagging.
Finance dashboard
- Debit/credit transactions are extracted from bank SMS into accounts, credit cards and spend summaries with hand-rolled charts.
- Balance tracking with an optional biometric balance lock.
Bills and alerts
- Upcoming bills, autopay, insurance and credit-card due dates in one Alerts view.
- Train and flight journeys, package deliveries with courier and tracking id.
Messaging
- Full SMS send and receive (default-SMS-app role), MMS send and receive with on-device image compression.
- Dual-SIM support, message scheduling, drafts, delivery reports, pinned conversations.
- Recycle bin with 30-day retention, undo for delete and archive, blocked senders and keywords.
OTP handling
- Big, copyable OTP notifications, optional auto-copy and configurable auto-delete.
Private by design
- No INTERNET permission - no servers, no telemetry, no analytics, no trackers.
- No Firebase, no Play Services - pure AOSP compatible.
- Local backup and restore for messages and settings; your data never leaves your device.
- The only network activity is the Android system's own MMS transaction with your carrier - inherent to how MMS works.
Material You - dynamic color on Android 12+, light/dark/system themes.
Categorization rules are maintained by the community and bundled into every release. Contribute rules or report gaps at the project repository.
- Author: Prakash
- License: Apache License 2.0
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Fixed
- Switching the SIM for a conversation crashed the app
- Sent MMS should now show up
- The compose screen ignored the "delay before sending" setting
- A contact could appear more times than it has numbers.
- Promotional message rule update
- Moving between tabs and opening a conversation are quicker. Changed animation from 700ms to 300ms
Added
- Picking a contact you already have a conversation with now opens that conversation instead of leaving you on an empty scree
Added
- The app is translated into German, Spanish, Hindi, Polish and Russian. On Android 13 and newer you can set the language for Clear SMS alone, without changing the rest of your phone - useful if you want an English phone and a Hindi inbox, or the reverse. Translations are community work and partial ones are welcome; anything untranslated falls back to English.
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