Clear SMS 0.25.0

Privacy-first SMS app with smart inbox, finance dashboard and bill reminders

filecart Android Updated Oct 29, 2026
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About Clear SMS

Clear SMS is an open-source, privacy-first SMS app that automatically organizes your inbox - completely offline, on your device.

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.

License: Apache-2.0
Release info Update on Oct 29, 2026
Release notes • Added Hinglish translation
• Right-to-left messages now read correctly (Eg. Persian, Arabic, Hebrew or Urdu)
• Attaching a photo from the camera works again (the app was not declaring that it looks for a camera)
• Picture messages now download on the SIM that received them, instead of always using the phone's default SIM
• "Sort messages again" moved from Inbox to Messages in Settings
• Added more diagnostics for picture messages that fail to download

What's Changed
• fix(mms): download on the notified SIM, and log the retrieve URL's shape by @itsluminous in https://github.com/itsluminous/ClearSMS/pull/141
• fix(compose): declare the camera intent so Camera attach can find one by @itsluminous in https://github.com/itsluminous/ClearSMS/pull/142
• feat(conversation): per-message text direction for RTL scripts by @itsluminous in https://github.com/itsluminous/ClearSMS/pull/143
• feat(settings): move Sort again into Messages as "Sort messages again" by @itsluminous in https://github.com/itsluminous/ClearSMS/pull/144
• feat(i18n): Hinglish (hi-Latn) translation by @itsluminous in https://github.com/itsluminous/ClearSMS/pull/145
• diag(mms): log the retrieve URL's query shape to settle the 404 by @itsluminous in https://github.com/itsluminous/ClearSMS/pull/149

Full Changelog: https://github.com/itsluminous/ClearSMS/compare/v0.24.1...v0.25.0
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