The Software
FrontlineSMS is award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. Once installed, the program enables users to send and receive text messages with groups of people through mobile phones. What you communicate is up to you, making FrontlineSMS useful in many different ways. You can:
- Create and manage all of your SMS-related contact groups
- View incoming and outgoing message history
- Collect data via SMS, and export data for easy analysis
- Run your own SMS information service using auto-replies
- No need to be on-line for any of the above – works on any GSM network via your own PC or laptop
- Learn about many more functions through our help files and user resources
Our goal is for our FrontlineSMS software to be accessible, intuitive and powerful; letting you use SMS – the most widespread digital platform on the planet – to manage people, deliver services, and share and collect information.
Get started with FrontlineSMS software!
- Download our free softward and test it out today!
- In order to use FrontlineSMS you either need a compatible phone or modem or to be connected to an online messaging service. Learn more about this through our phones and modems page here.
- The latest version of FrontlineSMS on public release is currently 1.6.16.3. If you have a previous version you can find out how to upgrade here.
- Find out how to create electronic versions of simple data collection forms with our FrontlineForms tool.
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