Use Beeper to put all your conversations in one place

during Over the years, there have been plenty of apps that promise a single place for all your messagesand the last one Bieber: Collecting All your conversations from WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Slack, Google Chat, Twitter (or X), and, Yes, even iMessage.

The idea Is that you should not You must waste time navigating from chat app to chat app Because Beeper handles it all – all the different standards and protocols are managed behind the scenes for you. There is now a waiting list for Beeper, but we have access to the app, and we’ll show you How it works.

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When Beeper opens its virtual doors to you, you will be required to create a new account and then connect all chat applications to it. Essentially, Beeper works like a third-party client app for all of the most popular messaging services, and then brings everything together — 15 different platforms are supported at the time of writing, including all platforms.

to integrate with iMessage, Beeper uses your Apple ID info to sign you in as on one of their Mac mini banks, which is then used as a server to relay messages to and from your inbox – this can trigger some warning messages about someone else accessing your account in our experience , but it works.

It remains to be seen if Beeper can sustain this iMessage connection in the long run — or connect with any of the supported chat apps, but for now it’s working. Two of the chat connections, Slack and Discord, are labeled “Labs,” which means you won’t get the full functionality you’d get in dedicated apps.

Beeper can be connected to other chat clients via an open source protocol, and everything is end-to-end encrypted (if you connect services to Beeper that are also end-to-end encrypted, everything will be re-encrypted). Beeper keeps encrypted, no-access backups of your chats, but no one in Beeper can access them – if you lose the recovery codes you get when setting up Beeper, chat backups can’t be reverted.

With Beeper servers managing all your connections, you can then install Beeper apps on any devices to access your conversations: You can use Beeper on Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Linux, Android and iOS. The service is free to use, with a $5-10 Beeper Plus subscription service about to launch sometime this year.

The ease with which you can connect to third-party chat apps depends on the app, and whether or not you’ve set up security precautions like two-factor authentication, but you should be up and running in a few minutes. Chat apps can be added or removed at any time after the setup process as well.

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Beeper’s desktop layout is pretty simple, with the different chat apps you’ve connected listed at the bottom left as icons (these icons can be dragged if you want to reposition them). You can tap any of these icons to see conversations from a specific app, or you can tap a Beeper app to see everything merged together in chronological order.

This means that your Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and Google Chat conversations are all next to each other, with the most recent messages on top. What Beeper doesn’t do is sync contacts across multiple apps — so you won’t, for example, see a long list of chats from your brother covering every messaging app you communicate with.

Another thing Beeper tries to do is filter low-priority conversations from your main inbox: think spam messages and the like. You can also mark conversations as low priority, so that you don’t get notifications for them. In the meantime, your most important chats can be pinned to the top of your conversations list — right-click on threads to pin them, mark them as low priority, or archive them out of view.

You will find a lot of messaging app features are supported, but not all of them. Sending and receiving messages, group chats, photos and videos, emoji replies, adding contacts, and the other basics all work fine; More complex or advanced features, such as video calls and group polls, are not available. In some cases, you will need to revert to the original app to complete the task.

Click the gear icon above the conversation menu to access Beeper settings. From here, you can add or remove chat networks, change how messages are configured and displayed, sync Apple or Google contacts, and more. There is also an AutoArchive feature that you can use to remove old messages from your inbox.

Beeper started life as a desktop application, and that interface is still in place Most features, but Android apps and iOS Also Available: It works in a similar way to the desktop apps, listing your conversations in chronological order, and showing your connected apps as icons along the bottom. Beeper also contains a starting guide This can come in handy once you’ve worked your way through the queue.