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Message Makeover for iMessage - Colorful Bubbles

Message Makeover for iMessage - Colorful Bubbles

by Andrew Halligan

35 ratings
66 reviews
#25 in paid Social Networking
🔧 Utilities
🌐 Social Networking
$0.99

Details

  • Released
  • Updated
  • November 15, 2011
  • September 1, 2017

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Developer

Andrew Halligan
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Tired of plain iMessages? This app lets you customize your message bubbles with vibrant colors and unique fonts. Make your conversations stand out with personalized backgrounds and text colors, and preview your creations before sending.

✓Custom iMessage background color
✓Custom iMessage font color
✓Simple and intuitive interface
✓Message preview functionality
✓Direct launch to Messages app
✓Wide range of color options
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What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Message Makeover for iMessage. Based on 35 reviews and a 3.5/5 average, it highlights the 6 positives and 203 negatives reviewers mention most about this Social Networking app.

Positive things

  • 💖Fun for holidays
  • ✨Impressive compliments
  • 🎨Match loved one's colors
  • 👍Works great
  • 😍Cute patterns
  • 🌟Great app

Negative things

  • 💸Waste of money
  • 🚫Not integrated
  • 😵Too much work
  • 🖼️Sends as a picture
  • 🐌Slow to send
  • 🤏Tiny font size
  • 🪲Doesn't work
  • ❌Useless
  • 😩Frustrating
  • 🤯Confusing to use
  • 👎Bad app
  • 😞Ripped off
  • 🐌Not worth the effort
  • 😵Copy and paste required
  • 😵Has to be sent from app only
  • 😵No options to change default colors
  • 😵Not worth a dollar
  • 😵Mucking around involved
  • 😵Too much work to text
  • 😵Doesn't even send anything
  • 😵Complete waste of time
  • 😵Offends aesthetic
  • 😵Worthless
  • 😵Doesn't change iMessage window look
  • 😵Just send as a pic
  • 😵Sucks so much
  • 😵Don't working
  • 😵Total waste
  • 😵Picture message
  • 😵Can't read
  • 😵Someone should make one that works
  • 😵Sent as an image
  • 😵Wish I didn't pay
  • 😵Doesn't even work
  • 😵Sends as a picture like other apps
  • 😵No description on how to use
  • 😵Messages show as pictures
  • 😵Words are really tiny
  • 😵Rubbish
  • 😵Doesn't work properly
  • 😵Terrible app
  • 😵Takes a lot of time
  • 😵Not worth it
  • 😵Pain
  • 😵Creates an image to copy
  • 😵Good for teeny boppers
  • 😵AWFUL
  • 😵Doesn't even work
  • 😵Clever idea
  • 😵Picture
  • 😵Stupid
  • 😵Font is WAY 2 small
  • 😵Says it's an attachment
  • 😵Sooo frustrating
  • 😵Confusing
  • 😵Takes a while to get on iMessage
  • 😵Not overly good
  • 😵Sends as a picture so useless
  • 😵Can't figure out how to send
  • 😵No instructions
  • 😵Useless until explained
  • 😵Makes message a picture
  • 😵Not worth it
  • 😵Victim
  • 😵Open two apps
  • 😵Not a text, it's a picture
  • 😵Boring
  • 😵Waste of a buck
  • 😵Font size is a little small
  • 😵Have to paste it
  • 😵Worth the effort
  • 😵Larger font needed
  • 😵Font style and size choices needed
  • 😵Have to use two different screens
  • 😵Won't let you send it
  • 😵Good idea, bad app
  • 😵Copy and paste a whole text
  • 😵Pastes half the size
  • 😵Font isn't same size as iMessage
  • 😵Looks wrong
  • 😵Not same type of font
  • 😵Lame app
  • 😵Needs a makeover
  • 😵Picture message
  • 😵Font size needs to be normal
  • 😵Bubbles need resizing
  • 😵Text too close to bubble borders
  • 😵Copy & paste app
  • 😵Looking for the real thing
  • 😵Doesn't change color of font
  • 😵Fonts don't work
  • 😵Shadows don't work
  • 😵Copy and paste is frustrating
  • 😵Want choices directly from iMessage
  • 😵Can't figure out how to use
  • 😵Don't know where pasteboard is
  • 😵Text isn't so small
  • 😵Not difficult
  • 😵Comes out as a cute message image
  • 😵Girls you will love it
  • 😵Copy & paste is not hard
  • 😵Someone needs to come up with an app
  • 😵Truthfully changes color of font
  • 😵DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY
  • 😵Font size too small
  • 😵Can't send it out
  • 😵Undecided
  • 😵Fonts are a little small
  • 😵Option to choose font size would be better
  • 😵No option not to have a shadow
  • 😵If these changes were made I would use it
  • 😵Poor app
  • 😵Save money don't buy
  • 😵Total rip off
  • 😵Maybe apple will let us change this one day
  • 😵Colour
  • 😵Rubbish
  • 😵COMPLETE RUBBISH
  • 😵HIDDEN CHARGES FROM NETWORK
  • 😵Separate thing
  • 😵Takes forever to send
  • 😵Sends as an attachment
  • 😵MMS charge
  • 😵Save ur pennies
  • 😵Garbage
  • 😵Horrible
  • 😵Awful
  • 😵Extra time to switch between apps
  • 😵Constantly change the message
  • 😵Further disappointment
  • 😵Not worth it
  • 😵Font size and type
  • 😵Looks wrong
  • 😵Way too small
  • 😵Not the same type of font
  • 😵Makeover
  • 😵Lame app
  • 😵Needs a makeover
  • 😵Waste of a penny
  • 😵Picture message
  • 😵Text
  • 😵Text size needs to be normal
  • 😵Bubbles need to be resized
  • 😵Text is way too close to the bubbles borders
  • 😵App is decent
  • 😵Love it
  • 😵Copies it for you
  • 😵All you have to do is paste it
  • 😵Love the striped pattern background
  • 👊Hate it
  • 👎Is a copy & paste app
  • 👎DO NOT get it
  • 👎Someone needs to come up with an app
  • 👎That truthfully changes the color of your font
  • 👎DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY
  • 👎Waste of money
  • 👎Can only get the color bubble to change
  • 👎Fonts don't work
  • 👎Shadows don't work
  • 👎Copy and paste is frustrating
  • 👎I want an app that will give me choices directly from iMessage
  • 👎Waste of money
  • 👎Can't figure out how to use it
  • 👎Don't know where the "pasteboard" is
  • 👎So far complete waste of money
  • 👎I think it could be cool
  • 👎The app is good
  • 👎Many colors and patterns to choose from
  • 👎It would be great if the text wasn't so small
  • 👎Finally
  • 👎Something for those of us not wanting to jail break
  • 👎Super cute patterns
  • 👎Yes, you have to copy and paste but so what
  • 👎It's not difficult
  • 👎Comes out as a cute message image
  • 👎Girls you will love it
  • 👊Hate it
  • 👎Is a copy & paste app
  • 👎DO NOT get it
  • 👎Someone needs to come up with an app
  • 👎That truthfully changes the color of your font
  • 👎DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY
  • 👎Waste of money
  • 👎Can only get the color bubble to change
  • 👎Fonts don't work
  • 👎Shadows don't work
  • 👎Copy and paste is frustrating
  • 👎I want an app that will give me choices directly from iMessage
  • 👎Waste of money
  • 👎Can't figure out how to use it
  • 👎Don't know where the "pasteboard" is
  • 👎So far complete waste of money
  • 👎I think it could be cool
  • 👎The app is good
  • 👎Many colors and patterns to choose from
  • 👎It would be great if the text wasn't so small
  • 👎Finally
  • 👎Something for those of us not wanting to jail break
  • 👎Super cute patterns
  • 👎Yes, you have to copy and paste but so what
  • 👎It's not difficult
  • 👎Comes out as a cute message image
  • 👎Girls you will love it
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What's New in Message Makeover for iMessage

2.0.0

September 1, 2017

This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. - Added the ability to directly insert your iMessages into the Messages app for sending (no more copy and paste!) - Completely revamped the application to support the latest version of iOS and beyond! Thanks to all of our Message Makeover fans! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any suggestions or feedback!

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This app dropped -1 position in Social Networking chart.

Last updated on August 20, 2026.

User reviews

Most RecentHighest RatedLowest Rated

Terrible for 16.7.4 letters too large

How to set size of font? This app hasn't been updated in 6 years. Maybe it is not compatible with later ios versions. Not recommended.
TTTwolfTTTwolf

TEXTING is an ADVENTURE NOW

So much fun to match a loved ones favorite colors to their texts. Plus, holidays are more special also! It’s VERY IMPRESSIVE! Love the complements❣️
Kathy Sullivan 💜🎀OKC
nana nangnana nang

Awful

Do not waste your money. The app is not integrated as it shows. The bubbles are not the same size and anybody not on the same iOS as you cannot receive it. I want my money back
Yi-awful-iYYi-awful-iY

Doesn’t work

My iPhone supports this app but I have to write a msg from the app only. Even to reply there is no change from the regular default colours. No options for me to change default colours. Waste of $1.39! I could have bought chocolate.
Jeno0309Jeno0309

Not bad

Would rather use iPhone messenger. It’s especially annoying you have to enter the persons name you are texting everytime you text plus I thought the available colours and fonts would be installed into default messenger but you have to text from the messenger makeover app. It’s not worth a dollar for all the mucking around involved.
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Developer apps

Message Makeover - Colorful Text Message Bubbles
Message Makeover - Colorful Text Message Bubbles

by Andrew Halligan

🌐 Social Networking

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$0.99
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User experience

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Reported Bugs

40 issues

Letters too large

Bug

Not compatible with later iOS versions

Bug

Bubbles not same size

Bug

Cannot receive messages

Bug

Has to write message from app only

Bug

No change from regular default colors when replying

Bug

Doesn't work

Bug

Doesn't send anything

Bug

Sends as a picture message

Bug

Cannot see words after typing and pasting

Bug

Sent as an image rather than a text/iMessage

Bug

Doesn't work

Bug

Messages show as pictures

Bug

Words are really tiny

Bug

Sends as a picture

Bug

Can't read

Bug

Doesn't work properly

Bug

Takes a lot of time

Bug

Has to paste and copy

Bug

Creates an image to copy

Bug

Leaves the app, goes into iMessages, and then pastes

Bug

Message doesn't send

Bug

Says it's an attachment, not message

Bug

Can't send it out

Bug

Fonts are a little small

Bug

No option not to have a shadow

Bug

Text size needs to be normal iPhone text size

Bug

Bubbles need to be resized to fit like the iPhone

Bug

Text is way too close to the bubbles borders

Bug

Won't let you send it

Bug

Can only get the color bubble to change

Bug

Fonts don't work

Bug

Shadows don't work

Bug

Can't figure out how to use it

Bug

Don't know where the "pasteboard" is

Bug

Text isn't so small

Bug

Comes out as a cute message image

Bug

Is a copy & paste app

Bug

Truthfully changes the color of your font

Bug

I want an app that will give me choices directly from iMessage

Bug
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Requested Features

11 requests

Set size of font

Feature

Change default colors

Feature

Integrated into iMessage

Feature

Actual message bubble change

Feature

Larger font size

Feature

Font style and size choices

Feature

Option to not have a shadow

Feature

Normal iPhone text size

Feature

Bubbles resized to fit iPhone

Feature

More font options

Feature

Direct choices from iMessage

Feature

FAQ

What does Message Makeover for iMessage do?

This app allows you to customize the appearance of your iMessages. You can change the background color of your message bubbles and the color of the text within them, making your conversations more visually engaging.

What are the key features of this app?

Key features include custom iMessage background and font colors, a simple interface for easy use, a preview function to see your message before sending, and the ability to launch the Messages app directly from within the application. It also offers a vast array of color choices.

Is this app free to use?

Yes, the app is completely free to use. Sending and receiving messages customized with this app is 100% free, meaning there are no additional costs associated with its core functionality.

What devices is Message Makeover for iMessage compatible with?

The application is designed for use on iPod Touch, iPad, and iPhone devices. It enhances the native iMessage experience on these Apple mobile devices.

How can I make my iMessages stand out?

You can make your iMessages stand out by using the app's customization options. Select unique background and font colors from the extensive palette to create bold, colorful messages that are distinct from standard iMessage appearances.