Clear SMS
Clear SMS is a free, open-source budget and finance app for Android. Privacy-first SMS app with smart inbox, finance dashboard and bill reminders. It has 105 GitHub stars and is released under the Apache-2.0 license, and you can install it from F-Droid.
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About Clear SMS
Clear SMS is an open-source, privacy-first SMS app that automatically organizes your inbox - completely offline, on your device. Smart inbox Messages are automatically sorted into Important, Promotional, Personal, OTP and Unknown using a transparent, regex-based rules engine - no ML black box, every rule is human-readable JSON you can inspect and edit. 390+ community-maintained rules plus a 715k sender-ID directory. Full-text search with category and time filters, heuristic scam-awareness flagging. Finance dashboard Debit/credit transactions are extracted from bank SMS into accounts, credit cards and spend summaries with hand-rolled charts.
Privacy and F-Droid
F-Droid builds Clear SMS from its published source code and flags anti-features such as ads, tracking or reliance on non-free services.
No anti-features flagged on the latest F-Droid build.
Screenshots
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Is Clear SMS free and open source?
Yes. Clear SMS's source code is public on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free. F-Droid, which builds it from source, flags no anti-features such as ads or tracking on its latest build.
How do I install Clear SMS?
You can install Clear SMS from F-Droid (package app.clearsms); the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: v0.24.1).
Is Clear SMS still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 28, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on Oct 14, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.