Sunbird Messaging is a new Android app with one goal that its developers say no other has yet fully achieved: offer iMessage support outside of Apple, Mac, and most importantly iOS. However, they have achieved this and aspire to much more.

Actually though the main one leitmotif Sunbird Messaging app is bring iMessage to Androidhis plans are possibly more ambitious, because once most of Apple’s instant messaging features are complete, he’ll move on to the rest of the most widespread options on the market: WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Signal. .

And so on, not too long, but important, according to the Sunbird Messaging roadmap. According to her, your app would already be fully compatible with iMessage features such as end-to-end encryption, individual and group chats, with SMS and MMS, reactions and notifications… it would even already be approved for publication on the Google Play Store, only must obtain patent approval.

All of the above would be completed by September; in October it should added WhatsApp support and from November to March of next year, support will be implemented for the rest of the services, including Google Chat, Discord, Slack or direct messages from Instagram. Sunbird Messaging therefore aspires to be perhaps too much of an all-in-one. But is it so, perhaps because of a biased view of reality?



If you look at the Sunbird Messaging website (see link above) you can see how they collect press hook messages messaging is fragmented on Android due to the lack of iMessage support, but not on iOS where they have everything; or how singles and younger people use iMessage over other options. Relative assumptions and inaccurate outside the United States.

Still, it’s true that Apple refused to bring iMessage to Android because it would hurt them, and for the same reason they refused to adopt industry standards like RCS, much to the chagrin of Google and others. All the more reason to loathe everything from Apple. However, reality prevails.

If you’re interested in trying out Sunbird Messaging, there’s a waiting list on their website that you can sign up for when there are gaps in the beta phase they’re currently running, or when the stable version of the app is released, whichever happens.

On top of all that, if the name Sunbird brought back memories, there’s a reason: until its name changed to Lightning Calendar, Sunbird was a calendar plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird.