Chime is a privacy-first SMS client for Android. A model on your phone learns to sort Personal, OTP, Banking, Promos, Carrier and Spam — and it never leaves the device.
$2.99 one-time · Android 11+ · No account · No ads · No telemetry
Every feature is tuned toward getting through your inbox faster — without a server in the loop.
A classifier trained on 62,457 words sorts every thread into Personal, OTP, Banking, Promos, Carrier or Spam — and retrains locally whenever you correct it.
Chime spots dates and times in incoming texts — “meet tomorrow at 3pm” — and offers a one-tap reminder, from the message or straight from the notification.
Build your own categories, tune each one's weight by hand, and drag the tabs into the order you actually read in.
Copy an OTP straight out of a code message, or tap a number to call. Both work from the thread and from the notification.
Queue a message for later and pick your SIM on dual-SIM phones. WorkManager sends it even if Chime isn't open.
An FTS4 index spans every thread, auto-focused the moment you open it.
Decide what left and right swipes do per thread, then long-press to move one — a floating pill gives you four seconds to change your mind.
Every MMS photo in a per-conversation gallery, rich previews for links people send you, and a draft saved for every thread you half-finished.
Mute the categories you don't care about, give each one its own sound, and let OTP messages clean themselves up on a timer you choose.
Block senders you never want to hear from, recover deleted conversations from Trash, and put a fingerprint or face behind the app.
Tablets and foldables get a two-pane layout — conversation list on the left, selected thread on the right. Phones stay single-pane.
35 languages with an in-app picker, AMOLED true-black alongside a hand-tuned light and dark palette, corner styles, text size, and two app icons to choose from.
The current release adds reminders and adaptive layouts, plus a round of customization and reliability work.
Categorization, search, reminder detection and training all run locally. There's no account to create and no server that ever sees a message.
A conventional, well-supported Android stack — nothing exotic to maintain.
$2.99
Requires Android 11 or later — Chime asks to become your default SMS app.
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