This new Android app is swooping in to cure the pain of green iMessage bubbles

If there’s one factor that iPhone and Android customers each agree on, it’s the hatred of green bubbles. A pox on the messaging neighborhood, green bubbles smash iPhone group messages, finish relationships, and create an general horrible expertise for everybody concerned.

A new app named Sunbird desires to change that. Available in closed beta and eyeing a summer time 2023 launch, the idea is easy: Android customers can be ready to talk with their iPhone mates as if everybody was utilizing an iPhone. Macworld was proven a demo of the system in use and it’s fairly slick: Sign in with an Apple ID, authenticate your iCloud account with a two-factor authentication code, and begin texting together with your iPhone mates in blue bubbles.

The builders declare that because it is utilizing Apple’s personal iMessage system, there isn’t any threat. Sunbird doesn’t retailer your Apple ID password on its servers and all messages are nonetheless end-to-end encrypted: “Users get safety (encryption), web messaging, full-quality media, iMessage group chats, reactions/faucet backs, live-typing, and browse receipts, with plans to add new options repeatedly.”

This isn’t the first time somebody has tried to convey iMessage to Android, however it does seem to be the easiest. Other options want a Mac or an iPhone working software program that communicates with a dedicated server, however Sunbird requires little or no setup and 0 funding from the consumer apart from a free iCloud account. Additionally, the builders say Sunbird can be free “for now,” with no plans to monetize the service at launch.

However, there are plans to increase Sunbird to different messaging apps. First on the listing is Whatsapp and Telegram and Messenger are additionally on their radar. The aim is to flip Sunbird right into a one-stop messaging app that permits you to talk with anybody on any platform it doesn’t matter what service or OS they’re utilizing. There are additionally plans to make an internet app for Sunbird as nicely.

“By inventing new expertise that provides Android customers iMessage on Android, one can take pleasure in the hottest features and options uniting the high messaging apps that folks use daily,” stated Danny Mizrahi, CEO, and Founder of Sunbird Messaging. “One inbox for all of your messages.”

It stays to be seen whether or not Apple will enable Sunbird to function and not using a authorized battle, nonetheless. Sunbird’s methodology brings the total iMessage expertise—typing prompts, uncompressed pictures and movies, and of course, blue bubbles—to Android telephones and the builders declare it isn’t reliant on Apple to play alongside. However, Apple has admitted that iMessage “lock-in” is one of the greatest explanation why it hasn’t introduced the service to Android, so it can seemingly take umbrage with Sunbird’s method. It’s unclear what recourse Apple has since the app can be in the Google Play Store and never the App Store, however Apple’s attorneys will seemingly take an extended exhausting look as soon as it arrives “in about six months.”

For now, Android customers join a waitlist to take part in a closed beta of Sunbird. So the subsequent time your Android buddy texts you a message with a blue bubble, it won’t imply they’ve switched telephones—it would simply imply they downloaded a new app.