✔️ = feature is supported
❌ = feature is not yet supported
🛑 = feature is not possible
Note that Barcelona, which the mac-nosip connector uses, is no longer maintained.
| Feature | mac | mac-nosip | bluebubbles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plain text | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Media/files | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Replies | 🛑 | ✔️ | ✔️† |
| Reactions | 🛑 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Edits | 🛑 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Unsends | 🛑 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Redactions | 🛑 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Read receipts | 🛑 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Typing notifications | 🛑 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
† BlueBubbles had bugs with replies until v1.9.5
| Feature | mac | mac-nosip | bluebubbles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plain text | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Media/files | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Replies | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Tapbacks | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Edits | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Unsends | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Own read receipts | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Other read receipts | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Typing notifications | 🛑 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| User metadata | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Group metadata | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Group Participants Added/Removed | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Backfilling history | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️‡ |
‡The BlueBubbles connector doesn't support backfilling tapbacks yet
The android-sms connector is deprecated in favor of mautrix-gmessages.
- Plain text (SMS)
- Media (MMS)
- Group chats
- Backfilling history from the Android SMS database.
- Storing messages in the Android SMS database (so you can still switch to a different SMS app).
- RCS (there's no API for it, it's exclusive to Google's Messages app).
- Any features that SMS/MMS don't support (replies, reactions, read receipts, typing notifications).
- Automatic portal creation
- At startup
- When receiving message
- Private chat creation by inviting Matrix puppet of iMessage user to new room
- Option to use own Matrix account for messages sent from other iMessage clients
- Automatically with shared secret login
- Manually with
login-matrixcommand