SMS + Poe integration
Connect SMS to Poe
ConnectChats brings your SMS chats into Poe. Ask Poe to catch you up, find any message and draft replies. Nothing gets sent until you approve it.
Free to start. No app to install. Every send needs your OK.
What Poe can do with your SMS
ConnectChats gives Poe a small set of tools. Poe calls them when you ask about your SMS chats, and only for the chats you share.
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Catch you up
Ask what you missed and Poe reads your unread SMS chats, then gives you the short version: who needs an answer, what was decided, what can wait.
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Find any message
The address someone sent last month, the price a client agreed to, the link from a group chat. Poe searches your SMS history and quotes the message.
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Draft replies
Poe writes the reply in your tone, in the chat's language, with the context of the whole thread. You read it, edit it, and send it.
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Send with your OK
When you approve a draft, ConnectChats sends it from your own SMS account and confirms delivery. Auto-send only runs in chats where you switch it on.
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Things to ask Poe
Type these in Poe once SMS is linked.
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What did I miss in my SMS chats today?
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Summarize the family group on SMS since Friday.
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Who asked me a question on SMS that I haven't answered?
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Find the address my sister sent me on SMS.
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Draft a reply to Alex on SMS saying I can make it Saturday.
How to connect SMS to Poe
It takes about two minutes. You do it once, and the same account then works in every AI app you add.
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Add ConnectChats to Poe
- Open the MCP server or connector setting that Poe offers for your account and add ConnectChats with https://api.connectchats.com/mcp.
- Poe opens the ConnectChats sign-in page, where you sign in with your passkey.
- Your shared chats are then available to the bots you talk to in Poe.
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Link your SMS account
- Open https://connectchats.com/app and choose Link a chat app, then SMS.
- On Android, open Google Messages, tap your profile picture, then Device pairing, and scan the QR code shown in ConnectChats.
- On iPhone, install the ConnectChats relay on a Mac signed in to Messages, and turn on Text Message Forwarding for that Mac on your iPhone.
- Your chats then appear in the dashboard, where you choose which ones your AI app can see.
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Pick the chats Poe can see
Every chat is listed in your ConnectChats dashboard. Share all of them or only the ones you choose. Poe never sees the rest.
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Ask Poe about your SMS
Open a new conversation in Poe and ask about your chats. Poe calls ConnectChats when it needs your messages.
How SMS and Poe work together
How SMS works with ConnectChats depends on your phone. On Android, ConnectChats pairs with Google Messages the way Google Messages for web does. On iPhone, texts come through a Mac that receives them with Text Message Forwarding.
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SMS in ConnectChats
SMS and MMS are supported on both phones, and RCS chats on Android. The phone, or the Mac on iPhone, has to stay on and online, because it is the device that actually sends and receives the texts. When a chat is linked, it starts with its last 200 messages, then everything new. Texts are sent from your own number, after you approve them.
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ConnectChats in Poe
ConnectChats works with Poe through an MCP server or connector setting, where Poe offers one for your account. Add it with https://api.connectchats.com/mcp, sign in with your passkey, and the bots you use can see the chats you share. Many of the models on Poe, such as Claude and GPT, also use ConnectChats in their own apps. The same ConnectChats account works in every AI app, so the chats you already linked are available in Poe without linking them again. ConnectChats only sees the chats you choose to share, and it asks for your approval before any reply is sent.
Your SMS stays under your control
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You pick the chats
Poe only sees the SMS chats you share. Unshare a chat and it disappears from every AI app at once.
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Drafts by default
Poe prepares replies. You approve each one before it reaches SMS, unless you turn on auto-send for that chat.
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Stored messages are encrypted
Stored messages are encrypted with a key that only your passkey can unlock. We never train models on your messages.
Questions
Can Poe read my SMS messages?
Yes, once you link SMS in ConnectChats and add ConnectChats to Poe. Poe reads only the chats you share, and only when you ask it something that needs them.
Can Poe send SMS messages for me?
Poe can draft a reply and send it after you approve it. Messages go out from your own SMS account. You can allow automatic sending for specific chats, and it stays off everywhere else.
Is the SMS to Poe integration free?
Yes. The free plan links two chat apps and works in every supported AI app, with no limit on what you ask. No card needed.
Do I need to install anything?
No. You add ConnectChats inside Poe and link SMS from your browser. There is no app to download and nothing runs on your computer.
Does it work with other AI apps too?
Yes. The same ConnectChats account works in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Manus, Muse and any AI app that supports remote MCP servers. Link SMS once and use it everywhere.
Does it use my own phone number?
Yes. Texts go out from your phone through your carrier, exactly as if you had typed them. ConnectChats does not give you a new number.
Do I need a Mac for SMS on iPhone?
Yes. Apple gives no other way to reach iPhone texts, so a Mac that stays on is required. Android does not need one.
Can I use ConnectChats with Poe today?
Yes. Add ConnectChats with https://api.connectchats.com/mcp in the MCP server or connector setting Poe offers for your account, then sign in with your passkey. The same models also use ConnectChats in Claude and ChatGPT.
Which chats can the bots in Poe see?
Only the chats you share in ConnectChats. Bots can read those chats and draft replies, and nothing is sent until you approve it.
Related pages
SMS with other AI apps
Other chat apps in Poe
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