We do not recommend any of these solutions, as they often require providing your Apple login credentials to a third-party and routing all of your messages through a random server. In the past, we've seen solutions that promise to bring iMessage to Android phones through a series of workarounds. Read: The best antivirus protection of 2019 for Windows 10 There are now a number of quite good alternatives for those of us who use a mixture of iOS, Android, Mac and Windows.
But that doesn't mean you can't chat from the comfort of your Windows PC. The downside for Windows users - iMessage won't on your PC.
Apple's chat service has set the gold standard for a seamless messaging experience, where iMessage on the Mac picks up where you leave off on your iPhone. It turns out, there are several, fully capable, messaging options for Windows users.