At the end of any given day, I’ll have texted my partner on WhatsApp, chatted with a friend on Google Messages, made plans with work colleagues on Facebook Messenger, sent memes to a friend on Instagram, and checked my work messages on Slack.

That’s five messaging apps I have to juggle, four of which have practically identical features.

When your circle of friends includes people who live in another country, don’t use Facebook’s app, or (for some reason I’ve never quite established) exclusively use Instagram to communicate, you have little choice but to use multiple apps. Or is there?

Beeper launched in 2020 as a cross-platform messaging app that allowed users to unify multiple messaging apps on one app, including iMessage.

Six years later, iMessage support has been dropped, but the core functionality remains the same.

It’s everything I want, but the
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