Reminders and MMS receiving: announcing a major new FrontlineSMS release

Today, we’re very pleased to announce a new FrontlineSMS release – version 1.6.16, to be precise – with two major new features: MMS receiving and the Reminders module! Ripples of clouds in Nairobi sky, sent in by Taz during MMS testing With this release, FrontlineSMS allows you to receive multimedia messages via a standard email account. More complex than SMS messages, MMS can include text, images, video and audio. This is a massive... Read More

Focus on the users, and all else will follow

If we were to have a mantra on the FrontlineSMS project, it would be this: “Focus on the users, and all else will follow”. From the very beginning we’ve been unashamedly focused on servicing the needs of our growing NGO user base. Much of the advanced functionality you see in the software today has been requested by users over the course of the last four years, and much of the feature request list we’re working through today... Read More