Drops Messages even after iMessage Turned Off – Message+ Review

This app is unacceptable. My friends were complaining that I wasn't responding to text messages. Turns out it's because I switched from the iphone message app to this one so that I could have the PC version of this app running on my Windows computer to see and respond to messages from there. Problem is that this app randomly drops messages, even if you have iMessage turned off on your phones and ipads so that text messages go through Verizon and not through Apple's servers if the sending device is an Apple product. From what testing I could do it looks like this happens if the message exceeds a certain size, but of course the sender is not notifed that the message was too big and dropped so they think you just ignored them. As such this app is unreliable which is completely unaceeptable for a messaging app. I've gone back to using the native Apple app for now. My understanding is that in IOS 10 the messaging APIs will be open to developers which I hope means someone will create an app that can forward messages to an email address, or some kind of web page, which will make apps such as this obsolete.
Review by Mudtoe on Message+.