Airdroid is free in the Google Play Store. It offers a premium service for a monthly fee that provides access across networks and a few extras. But we don’t think you’ll need them.
Airdroid is an impressive productivity app, it allows you to do so much more than just send and receive SMS through your PC, allowing you to access files from your Android device and even take remote control of a few aspects of your Android gear. Airdroid has been mentioned a few times before here on the sight, most recently as a tool to remotely clear your microSD card before using Android Device Manager to factory reset your device.
To use Airdroid for your SMS, follow Airdroid’s fairly simple and bulletproof instructions on your phone to connect your PC to your Android device. From there, click into the Messages section of Airdroid on your PC and enjoy.
DeskSMS is free in the Google Play Store. While the app may be free, the service will run a small fee to go beyond a short trial period.
DeskSMS is brought to you by Koushik Dutta, a popular Android app developer responsible for a number of unique and powerfully productive apps, such as Helium backup, Clockword Mod ROM manager and AllCast. DeskSMS is one of those apps specifically built to handle your SMS through the computer.
DeskSMS takes the approach of piggybacking on top of your other communication tools. In short, you send a chat or email message from your PC and it will translate into an SMS message through your Android device.
MightyText is free in the Google Play Store, with no additional service fees. They’ve got a Chrome extension too.
MightyText is another popular app that is focus built for SMS management through your computer. MightyText focuses on handling your messages through a web browser, providing a web page for you to visit, from which all of your messages are synced between PC and Android device. Simply follow the setup instruction in the Android app and you’ll be up and running in a few clicks.
MySMS is free in the Google Play Store. A premium option is available that brings sync across devices, backup into cloud services, export to a text file and more.
MySMS is another option that utilizes a web page to access and control your SMS off your Android phone. Startup the app and log in on your Android device, follow the instructions through and it will provide the local URL that you’ll need to access on your PC.
PushBullet is free in the Google Play Store. Not only is there no extra fees to worry about, but Pushbullet offers APIs that allow you to build your own apps and programs to operate on their service.

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