Beeper is free and much more expansive!

With Beeper, everything goes through Beeper servers. With Texts, there is no intermediary, your device talks to the services directly.

Not available on iOS yet. I’d be keen to test it out once they launch it on iOS.

$12.50 a month to be able to, “iMessage (only on macOS), SMS (with iMessage), WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, IRC, Slack and Discord DMs.”

Ohhh good to know, wasn’t aware of the cost model

To keep those privacy-invading off your devices might be worth it for some.