When it comes to instant messaging programs on iPhone chances are you would not be mentioning a Google based product as one of the main ones. Apple and Google have been fierce rivals since Google’s inception but now it seems that they are at least trying to play nice with Apple now having Hangouts available for iOS devices.

The top and most popular instant messaging programs such as Whatsapp, LINE and Facebook all offer the same features and functionality as the rest so what can Google really bring to the table that is new when it comes to offering features for Hangouts?

The answer is not that much to be honest. As you would expect Hangouts performs and has more features on its native Android than iOS due to the fact that the Android OS platform is more lenient than iOS (for example you can use Hangouts on Android to send SMS messages but you cannot do so for iOS) but despite this limitation Hangouts on iOS is still a competent instant messaging program and so it makes sense that spy phone software such as FlexiSPY has added it to its already impressive roster of captured IM services.

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How important is IM capturing for spy phone software?

IM capturing has become a staple feature for most spy phone software. However how well and what IM services are captured vary depending on the spy phone software you are looking to purchase. For example Mobistealth does offer support for Whatsapp capturing on iPhone but no other IM services are captured. Instead Mobistealth prefers to capture IM services on computers instead with Whatsapp and BBM being the only ones they offer for mobile phones.

This is quite a difference when compared with FlexiSPY which offers support for an incredible 13 instant messaging services including the subject of this article, Hangouts which Mobistealth does not offer. But sometimes it is not just the number of IM services that are supported which is important but the amount and quality of the IM data that is captured from the target device and uploaded to the online account but what does this really mean?

It means does the spy phone software just capture the text of the conversation or does it capture the shared rich media elements as well such as stickers, emoticons, pictures, videos or GPS location? The more data that is shared in terms of rich media which is captured and uploaded the better the spy phone software but it does not end there. Once the data has been captured and uploaded to the online account it has to be displayed in a format that is easy to understand so that the customer does not have to search through all the data themselves.

So the accuracy of data captured, because shared rich media such as images, videos and GPS location usually can convey far more meaning than just plain text now, is now as important as how the captured data is displayed to be understood by the customer so how well does Mobistealth and FlexiSPY stack up in these key areas?


Mobistealth offers no Hangouts IM capturing

Mobistealth only offers, at best, a limited amount of support for IM capturing on smartphones and support for Google Hangouts is not one of the IM services that they offer. This ultimately means that FlexiSPY is the better advantage for Hangouts capturing although perhaps Mobistealth will add more IM services to be captured in the future the same way that Mobile Spy did and this may include Hangouts.



FlexiSPY captures the shared rich media and text from Hangouts.

FlexiSPY not only captures the text from chats that take place during a Hangouts conversation as well as the profile information of all recipients but it also captures the shared rich media as well such as images, emoticons and GPS location data. Immediately then FlexiSPY is better at capturing Hangouts than Mobistealth but that is not all.

FlexiSPY delivers the captured Hangouts information in the online FlexiSPY account in conversation view which means that it looks as close as it does on the phone itself so you can immediately understand what you are seeing and do not have to spend time searching through pages of data to find what you think may be important information as you do with other spy phone software.

Not only that but all the captured shared rich media inside the FlexiSPY online account can be downloaded and saved directly to your computer so you can analyse it as required. This is something that no other spy phone software actually gives you and it further cements FlexiSPY as the go to spy phone software for those who really want to know the secrets other people are keeping through IM conversations.


FlexiSPY gives you Hangouts capturing where Mobistealth doesn’t

The evidence here speaks for itself.

Mobistealth does not offer Hangouts capturing of any kind compared to FlexiSPY which offers it and does it better than any other competitor. That is to say FlexiSPY captures more of any IM conversation and shared rich media than any other spy phone competitor for all of its supported IM services, not just Hangouts.

This means that right now if you believe someone in your life is not being truthful and that they may be exposing secrets over IM services such as Hangouts then it is only FlexiSPY that gives you the complete conversation which includes all shared rich media as well as making it as easy to understand as possible.

This is why FlexiSPY is committed to providing not only the best level of IM capturing but supporting the latest IM services and Hangouts is proof of this as no other spy phone competitor captures as many IM services as FlexiSPY or gives you same level of detail for data captured and uploaded making FlexiSPY the obvious choice if you want to spy on IM conversations.

In the table below you can see how FlexiSPY compares to its competitors when capturing other IM applications across all supported smartphone platforms.



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