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.
Android 13+ · No account · No cloud · No telemetry
Every feature is tuned toward getting through your inbox faster — without a server in the loop.
A pre-trained classifier sorts every thread into Personal, OTP, Banking, Promos, Carrier or Spam, and retrains locally whenever you correct it.
Create your own categories with keyword heuristics, and tune each one's classification weight by hand.
Long-press to move a thread — a floating pill gives you a four-second window to undo, in the inbox or the thread itself.
Queue a message for later. Delivery is handled by WorkManager, so it goes out even if Chime isn't open.
An FTS4 index makes search instant across every thread, auto-focused the moment you open it.
Set what left and right swipes do per thread — archive, delete, mark read, your call.
Every photo and MMS attachment in a thread, laid out in its own gallery view.
Deleted conversations sit in Trash before they're gone for good.
Dynamic Material You color, or a static black-and-white scheme — with Rounded, Squared or Extra-rounded corners throughout.
Categorization, search 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.
Requires Android 13 or later. Beta testers get early builds and a direct line to what ships next.