Link to Windows 4+

Better than nothing

I’ve tried other third-party apps that supposedly allowed you to use iMessage on a PC, but they mostly didn’t work at all, or I didn’t trust the security behind them. I’ve been using this one for a few days and its far better than anything else I’ve seen or heard of. It does have a couple of issues that keep me from giving 5 stars. 1. I don’t like that I pretty much have to stay off my iPhone while using Phone Link on my laptop in order to maintain the current text thread with someone. It doesn’t sync messages between my phone and the very well at all. This may not be a bug, its most likely related to the fact that there is not a seamless connection between Apple’s iMessage platform and Windows. 2. The Phone Link app on my laptop regularly has trouble refreshing and connecting with my phone. I’ve gone through the exercise of completely disconnecting my phone from my laptop, and my laptop from my phone, and re-pairing both but the issue remains. This happens even if my phone is on my desk about a foot away from my latop.

Hopeful

I think this is a good start and it got me pretty excited since before I couldn’t sync anything from my phone to my microsoft laptop! I like how it shows my notifications from other apps. I also enjoy the mimic of imessage where it allows gifs, emojis and even emoticons.
As people have mentioned, the conversation will not sync if you switch to text on your phone. There are also delays with messages coming in from imessage and to start a conversation I have to type in the designated phone number instead of the contact name which is inconvenient. However, the app does warn you it can’t sync message history and any messages from your phone. This the best app that’s worked so far for getting notifications on my laptop from my phone and at least I can text a little! I hope they will add a feature where we can change the theme of the chat and make kt more colorful! I hope it will continue to be worked on and improved : )

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your suggestions and feature requests. We shared this with our product team to take a look at it for future planning.

Use it everyday!

I’m the type of person who rarely gives anything full stars on ratings. However, after realizing that I have used this almost daily for years and have made surr its on all of my computers and phones, this app actually deserves full stars.

The first initial connection between your phone and your computer can sometimes be difficult or confusing, depending on the device, but afterwards it's really user-friendly. The auto-connect options make it virtually seamless when you first get to your computer for the day.

I hope they come out with a few more capabilities in the future, as of right now, the app is limited to only a few things. Loading older text messages would really help make continuing conversations on your computer nicer. And I like controlling the music on my phone from my computer.