Text messages are going the way of checking accounts and pornography: There are too many free options to justify paying for them. Third-party texting apps such as Whatsapp, Kik and WeChat are ...

If you’re sending a text message or chatting on a work chat app such as Slack, you have a limited number of ways to express yourself. You can use plain text, of course, or emoji, or drop in a meme, or ...

The Android operating system offers native support for third-party texting apps. Google Messages might be ubiquitous with texting on Android, but plenty of third-party developers have built their own ...

Apple and Google have added useful features to texting apps, yet the apps still lack a major component: an effective way to set limits. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s personal ...