Messages For Android & Calls

Name: Messages For Android & Calls
Author: Akshay Mehta

5.7

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Akshay Mehta

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Messages for Android & Calls: SMS app with call log

By Mei-Lin Chua

Contributing editor, apps and storefronts

Can be set as the default SMS and MMS app
Group chats, with work and personal threads kept apart
Call log showing incoming, outgoing, missed and rejected calls
Searchable call history with date, time and duration
Call Insights: talk time, average call length, answer rate
Call, message or block a contact from their recent activity

What the app is and who it suits

Messages for Android is a text messaging app that also holds your call history in the same place. The listing says it can be made your default SMS and MMS app, so incoming texts and multimedia messages go through it. It is pitched at people who text and call every day, whether for personal conversations or for work.

Because texting and calling sit side by side, the app suits someone who wants one screen for both. Its call statistics add a second use: people who want to see how much they talk on the phone can read those numbers from the same app.

Sending texts, group chats and organizing threads

The app handles standard SMS and MMS, so it works for plain texts and for messages with media attached. Group chats run in the same inbox as one-to-one conversations. The listing says work and personal threads can be kept organized, which helps if one phone carries both.

The listing also mentions offline texting and secure messaging without giving detail on either. It does not say which security methods are used, so the description here stays at the level of what the developer claims.

Searching and reviewing call history

Every call shows up in one list, marked as incoming, outgoing, missed or rejected. Each entry carries the date, the time and how long the call lasted. The call history can be searched, so a past call can be found by name or number without scrolling through the whole log.

A missed call and a rejected call appear as separate types, which keeps them apart from calls you answered. Someone checking who tried to reach them during a busy week can filter the list by that difference.

Calling, messaging and blocking contacts

From a contact's entry you can place a call, send a message or block the number. The contact's recent activity is shown alongside those actions, so the recent calls and messages with that person are visible in one place before you act.

Blocking is a single action from the contact entry. The listing does not describe how blocked numbers are handled beyond that.

Call Insights and calling statistics

Call Insights reports total calls, total talk time, average call duration and answer rate. These figures can be viewed across different time periods, so you can compare a week with a month. The listing presents it as a way to manage daily calls and messages.

The statistics are drawn from the same call log that the history screen uses. Together, the log and Insights show both individual calls and the totals they add up to.

About this APK

The build we hold is Messages For Android & Calls 5.7 (APKS split bundle) for Android 8.0 and up.

Version: 5.7; 57
Requires Android: 8.0+
Target Android: 16

Package ID: com.sms.messages.messanger.mmsmessages
Format: APKS split bundle
Malware scan: Google Play Protect
Permissions: 70 declared · 18 sensitive; Answer phone calls
Approximate location
Draw over other apps
Modify files on your device
Modify your contacts
Place phone calls
Precise location
Read call log
Signed by: CN=Android, O=Google Inc.
Certificate SHA-256: 3c22f62d5b73612a50699e0acaad4a0f17bb151feb6912c21bbc77157a7efd70