Lounge: SMS Texting and Vault

Lounge is a private, ad-free SMS and MMS texting app for Android, built for people who want complete control over their messages: zero tracking, no ads, no subscription. THE VAULT (PRIVATE INBOX) Move any conversation into an encrypted local vault sealed behind a passcode. Vaulted messages leave Android's central message database entirely, so other apps that can read your texts stop seeing them. Notifications from vaulted contacts give nothing away, not the sender and not the preview. Screenshots are blocked while the vault is open, and it locks itself the moment you leave the app. MESSAGES THAT CLEAR THEMSELVES Set auto-delete timers from 5 minutes to 30 days, per conversation. Older text messages disappear on their own; highlight the ones worth keeping and they stay put. Auto-clear one-time login codes (2FA passcodes), so your inbox stops being a filing cabinet of expired passcodes. CUSTOM SPAM FILTERS AND REGEX Filter incoming text spam on plain words or full regular expressions (regex). Test a rule against your real messages before you keep it, and start from four suggested filters. Blocking runs through Android's own system block list, so the calls stop as well as the texts. The filtered folder always tells you why something landed there. IPHONE REACTIONS AND TAPBACK FIXES Fixes cross-platform texting with iPhone users in one-to-one and group chats. Puts an iPhone tapback back on the message it belongs to, instead of a separate text reading Loved "see you at 9". Recognises all thirteen screen effects and takes the leftover wording out of the bubble and the inbox. CUSTOM THEMES AND DESIGN 12 themes: 6 dark, 6 light, with the whole app turning over rather than being tinted - bars, cards, bevels and animations. Make your own: build a theme from four colours and Lounge works out the rest. 4 conversation styles, 7 send button styles (6 animated) with a screen-wide wave in your theme's colours, and adjustable message text size. ESSENTIAL SMS MESSAGING FEATURES Group SMS, MMS photos, video and voice notes. Offline search across every conversation and the archive. Scheduled SMS text messages that survive a device restart. Drafts kept per thread. NO SUBSCRIPTION. NO TRACKING. Lounge has no servers, no cloud sync, no analytics, no crash reporter and no advertising library. There is no account to create and nothing about you to sell. Free: full SMS and MMS texting, all 12 themes plus your own, spam filters, blocking, highlights, self-destructing messages, and scheduling a message. Lounge Plus ($9.99, one time): the vault, auto-reply, repeating schedules, and five more animated send buttons. Paid once, never a monthly subscription. Nothing hides behind a lock: the paid send buttons play in the picker and the repeat options sit in the schedule sheet, labelled, so you see what you would be buying before you buy it. If you are looking for a private SMS app, here is exactly what that means: everything Lounge does happens on the device in your hand, and your texts stay between you, the person you sent them to, and the carrier that has always carried them. SETTING UP Lounge becomes your default SMS handler for SMS and MMS messaging. If your device has RCS chat features enabled, Lounge points you straight at the system toggle to turn them off, so your conversations keep arriving as normal texts.