Coffee - SMS on Android Wear

Great app, better than the default one on Android Wear. You can customize the replies and everything. However, there is one major flaw: Notifications don't show up on your watch if it is MMS or group messages (which typically are sent as MMS). I do a lot of group messaging, so this is a major disappointment. I will be uninstalling for now until this is fixed or added.

First off let me just start by saying that I love this app on my watch. The quick reply system is brilliant and 100000 times faster and better than the default reply options in Hangouts. However, the execution of this app needs to sorely be improved. For example, as others have mentioned any sent messages from Coffee don't show up in SMS history. Secondly, this thing has a battery leak meaning it saps the battery even though I might not be using it a particular day. I'm running Coffee on the OG Moto 360.

I'm using textra as my SMS/MMS client and the moto 360 and one thing that has already been mentioned is the MMS notifications not being sent to android wear. Another flaw that I've noticed is when a reply is sent through android wear the reply isn't shown in textra's conversation history.

A lot of Wear apps are fun to play with, but few stand the test of time as often the extra functionality available by pulling out your phone is worth the trouble. However, properly configured with your own messages, Coffee allows you to easily send quite sophisticated SMSs from your watch without bringing out your phone. Certainly worth trying the free version... and, in my case, I liked it enough to upgrade.

This app is great, it does everything it's supposed to do and even astonished me with the quick reply system and everything. Makes the android wear devices truly capable of sms messaging. What's missing? Privacy. A toggle to show or not to show a preview of the sms (as in show contents or just "new sms from X"). And the ability to open the app and access all sms threads. Or at least the favorites. Keep up the great work!!

A solid app, at least by Android Wear standards. It can be a little slow to respond at times. Also, it's a minor quibble, but they need to capitalize letters properly in their voice-to-text feature. It may be a Google Now limitation, but words at the beginning of a sentence or after a period are never capitalized.

This is a fantastic app and I will recommend it to anyone I know who has a smart watch. However I think there is some room for improvement. 1: Some sort of notification when you receive an mms message. I'm so disappointed that my watch doesn't at least buzz to notify me that someone sent me a picture like the stock messaging service does. It doesn't need to show the picture, I just want some kind of notification 2: Use Google's voice to text. It irks me so much that the text to speech in the app doesn't auto-capitalize sentences like the stock voice-to-text messaging software. It's gotten to the point that I just don't use to VTT in app. 3: Add the ability to check text history of your favorite contacts. Small thing but it would be much more convenient to check text history on the watch before I sent a message than having to wait for the person to send me a message before I can see it.

I used to really like this app and gave it a five star rating but I've noticed issues cropping up (most notably texts disappearing before I can reply, and the watch app ignoring my chosen contacts and using the contacts I have most recently dialled) and it has now reached the point where I barely use it because it doesn't do what I want any more.

Love the concept and much of the design. However, I've had two instances where Coffee has shown a notification for a sms while it has just not shown up in Textra at all, in effect coffee has swallowed the sms - it seems. Not so nice, especially if you're not wearing the watch when this happens. Hope you get the bugs ironed out, I really appreciate this app. How about you join forces with Textra and make it one fab package? :)

I have a bug where it doesn't show the conversation history for one of my friends. Everyone else works, but on his messages when I scroll over the card, it just shows a blank page where it should show the conversation history. I've sent emails about this but it hasn't been fixed. I can't live without this app so I hope it gets fixed!

Coffee is probably the Wear app I use the most. I added the FlickKey app to my watch also and Coffee integrates it well (another reviewer was complaining about the lack of keyboard - try FlickKey). UPDATE: As previously reported by another user, there are indeed no notifications for MMS messages (note that the native Android message notifications do include MMS notifications, but if you turn them back on, you'll get duplicate notifications for SMS messages -- removing a star).

One of the best apps for Android Wear. Unfortunately, I've experienced many times that when I check the messaging app on the phone, the message was not sent as indicated by coffee on the watch... which means if the message is important I must now check the phone to confirm... still the case with latest version.

This app COULD be awesome, but it needs some fixes. It's pretty upsetting the devs haven't updated this app since 2015! It HAS to have group and MMS support, thats a must in this day and age. If they could fix that, it would be 5 star. In addition, perhaps charge $1 or $2 and devote some time to making this app #1!!!! I really hope you can improve on this soon.

It's so convenient and easy to customize. Many thanks! (Unfortunately, I have had multiple bugs when setting up custom messages. Now I can't add/change anything except replies) please fix… would have no problem paying for premium. Is there a way to backup user created messages? Still love it, but frustrated at the moment.

This is a good app, but there are two problems that I've emailed for support with, more than once, but not received a response: 1. Dismissing the notification on my watch doesn't clear the outstanding notification from my phone. 2. The SMS history card on my watch stopped working at a fairly early stage. Please fix this.

It's literally the one app that works when Google keeps messing with the Wear app and all the notifications quit working. This one works consistently all the time.

Potentially great but I keep having my custom replies reset on my LG watch. It's really annoying when you take time to write custom replies only to have them all disappear time and time again...

Works well. Just a minor bug that sends a message to your watch twice, so the history log shows two of the same message. Doesn't break the usage, but it is hella annoying.

Coffee is awesome if you use SMS to talk to people. However I also use group messaging (MMS) and it doesn't support that. It's useless to me if I can't see half my texts :(

It takes a very long time for peaple to receive messages. Some times up to 20min at first I thought it was my carrier but then I try to Hangouts and it sent in seconds. I would love if you could fix it so i can give 5 stars

Great, but needs one big improvement. Swiping away a notification on my watch does not always clear it on my phone and never clears it on my watch when I clear it on my phone first. Other than that, this app is a must have.

Decidedly what I wanted out of SMS on Android wear. The only thing that's either lacking or too hard for me to figure out is me creating my own redtext messages, so one star withheld for that.

This app is killing my watch battery within 7 hours of being off the charger, and it actually crashes the watch when it's below 20% and I'm unable to turn it on until I place it on the charger....

Really useful app and the quick reply system is genius, but the issues with notifications are really frustrating. For me, the most annoying issue is if you see or dismiss an SMS notification on your phone, the notification persists on your watch in coffee. Really annoying

This just leaves the stock sms app in the dust. Super easy to use, works super fast, no lag and no issues so far on my Moto 360 gen2. Highly recommend.

Notification spamming shows how little you think of your users. One star. Add to that this thing POUNDS the internet with requests. Great idea, not worth the suspect behavior!

Works great, more choices in the relationships would be good, the ability to add a custom relationship would be great. Eg. Family, club or organization member

This app creates a screen overlay on the watch which prevents allowing permissions for other apps. This occurs even when the "launcher" feature is disabled!