Connect You
A private replacement for your contacts and text messages
Made by you-apps · free and open source
This comes straight from Connect You’s own GitHub page, and it’s free. Need help installing?
What it looks like
About this app
Connect You is your address book and your text messages in one calm app. It uses the normal Android contacts already on your phone, so nothing gets locked away where only this app can read it, and your SMS conversations sit right alongside them.
You can add, edit and delete contacts with phone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses and dates like birthdays, and send, read and delete texts. It follows Material You, so it takes its colours from your wallpaper and has a proper dark theme.
On Android 16 and newer you have to switch on restricted permissions for the app in Android settings before the text message side will work.
From the app’s home page
- See the codeHow it’s made, every line is public
- WebsiteThe app’s own home page
- Questions & commentsTalk with the people who make it
- Report a problemTell the makers something is broken
- All versionsOlder downloads and what changed
- LicenseThe rules for using and sharing it
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