Clear SMS 0.25.0
Privacy-first SMS app with smart inbox, finance dashboard and bill reminders
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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
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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