The present invention relates to a short message remarking method and device, and belongs to the technical field of terminals. The method comprises: displaying a remark input box when a remarking instruction to a target short message is received, wherein the target short message is at least one received message; acquiring information input in the remark input box; and setting the input information as remarking information of the target short message. Namely, the invention provides a method allowing the short message to be remarked, the received short message can be remarked with characteristic information such as the use of the short message, so that a user can clearly know the characteristic information such as the use of each short message.