If you’re tired of reaching for your phone every time you get a message notification, shbullet is giving you another excellent reason to check it out.

The newest shbullet update gives you the ability to respond to messages from atsApp, Telegram, Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, ne using your . eviously, this functionality only existed for SMS messages.

You’ll need the shbullet desktop app for ndows (beta), OS X, or the Chrome extension to make this happen.

If you want to see it in action, shbullet put together a brief video.

However, there’s a caveat with the Hangouts implementation. To get it to work, you need to install the Android ar app from the ay Store. No, you don’t need an Android ar watch, just the app.  has probably tied in the ability to get Hangouts notifications on another device to Android ar. 

The other condition is that you need to be using Android 4.4 or above.  

The impact on you: If you haven’t tried shbullet, let this be the impetus to give it a go. It lets you leave your phone on the desk get Android notifications on the desktop. There’s also a growing list of websites services that use shbullet’s Channels for updating you on new content, so you can get pinged with info as much as you want.