Beeper Mini Brings iMessage to Android with Direct, Encrypted Connection to Apple's Servers

The new app reverse-engineers Apple's iMessage protocol, allowing Android users to send and receive iMessages directly, maintaining end-to-end encryption and not requiring an Apple ID sign-in.

Beeper Mini, a new app from messaging startup Beeper, has reverse-engineered Apple's iMessage protocol to allow Android users to send and receive iMessages directly to Apple's servers, maintaining end-to-end encryption and not requiring an Apple ID sign-in.
The app mimics the iMessage experience on iPhone, turning Android users' green bubbles into blue bubbles on iPhones, supporting features such as high-resolution photos and videos, threads, replies, read receipts, direct messages and group chats, tapback emoji reactions, editing and unsending messages.
Beeper Mini does not connect to any servers at Beeper itself, only to Apple's servers, the way a 'real' iMessage text would, and the encryption keys never leave a user's device.
The app is competitively priced at $2.99 per month, with a 7-day free trial, and Beeper's iMessage code will be open source for others to review.
Beeper Mini is available to the public today on Google Play Store.