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Top 10 Best Text Spying Apps to Track Messages

Spying on someone’s text messages is very easy to do. One way to do this is to get access to their phones physically and read all their messages. However, rarely, is that so easy — and has a larger risk of being caught. The best alternative for grabbing someone’s phone is to use an app that is used to spy on text messages.

These apps are designed to be stealthy and are made for spying. All you have to do is install the app and then you can use the for reading the text messages of someone without much of a worry.

Here is a list of the top 10 apps that you can use to spy on text messages:

  • Spyier Text Spy

This is an app used to monitor phones and is also a text message reader. It has some extremely powerful features which make this app top the list of text message spying apps. It can be easily used and doesn’t need any extra technical skills. The app is so advanced that it allows you to spy on messages without jailbreaking. This app also has a stealth mode and also makes sure that your privacy is not compromised.

  • Spyic Text Spy

Spyic is the second-best spying app in the market currently. It can be used on both iOS and Android devices. It has a well-established reputation and has extremely reliable features.  With the help of this app, you can get access to someone’s messages from both your phone and PC. It will also send you the deleted messages and also archived ones. It reveals contact information, names, and also any media shred through the texts.

  • Cocospy

The third on the list is an app called Cocospy. It is another well-known spy app and can work on both Android and iOS. This app also helps in monitoring any activity on the phone apart from just reading text messages. You can get access to it from any web browser. It is used by numerous people worldwide and is a genuine app. it also checks the media files and contact s in the phone and also makes sure to get access to the deleted messages.

  • Fami360

This app is more of a parental control solution. The design of this app is such that it allows the parents to get access to the devices that your children use very remotely and in secrecy, thus also reading the messages that they exchange. The app can be sued to monitor the devices through other phones and PC. It monitors text messages, media exchanged, social media activities, contacts, phone calls and many more.

  • SMS Peeper

SMS Peeper is an amazing choice in the case of a remote text message reader. It allows the users to read the last hundred messages that have been sent and received by the device and it works remotely. It is not really a full-fledged spy application and cannot monitor the other activities performed through the device. One drawback of the app is it doesn’t monitor anything other than text; it doesn’t get access to call logs and media.

  • SpyBubble

SpyBubble is a spy app that can work on multiple platforms. It allows the user to get access to the messages exchanged in any Android device. This app can also monitor other activities performed from this device. It can be used to read social media messages as well.

  • Appmia

This is an app used to monitor mobile devices as well as track the messages in it. The app is quite famous and has more than 250,000 highly active users. Appmia can be used to keep a record of messages sent and delivered by a device and also through their social media accounts.

  • Auto Forward

Another one of the text message spying apps in the market that can make its name to the list of top 10 text message spying apps is called Auto Forward. This app is very easy to set up and can work on both iOS and Android platforms. It gives access to both text messages and also the media files that are shared through texts. Even though this app is highly reliable and helpful, it is extremely costly.

  • iKey Monitor

Taking up the ninth spot in this list is the iKey Monitor app. This app is mostly famous because of its ability to spy on social media messages. It can work on both iOS and Android devices and also allows you to take screenshots of the texts.

  • Copy9

Copy9 marks the end of the list of the top 10 text message spying apps. It is a very dependable app and has been helping users for years now. This app offers a free trial and works only on Android platforms. It also has a dated interface. It is the lack of its availability on the iOS devices that brings it so down the list.

Even though the top three are the best in the lot, all these apps are amazingly helpful in spying on text messages of a device.

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Rana Rajput
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