Comparison

Pingtumi vs DefaultSMS

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pingtumi

This app is a collection of powerful messaging and creative tools. It allows users to design and share various visual content, organize events, and communicate through group messaging and rich media. Privacy is a key focus, with no phone number or contact access required.

Highlights
  • Design greeting cards and invitations
  • Create custom sticky notes
  • Generate AI images and character videos
  • Set alerts for important events
  • Group messaging
  • Share rich, visual content
  • Save and organize places
Features
Read full description

Pingtumi — A Collection of Powerful Messaging Apps Pingtumi brings together a growing collection of powerful messaging apps designed to help you create, communicate, organize, and share in more meaningful ways. Whether you’re sending something personal, planning with others, exploring places, or creating with AI, Pingtumi gives you the tools to do it all in one place. Design and share: • Greeting cards and invitations • Custom sticky notes • AI-generated images • AI character videos Organize and Plan • Alerts for important events • Shared communication tools for planning and coordination • Collections of places you want to save, organize, and share Connect and Communicate • Group messaging • Powerful iMessage experiences • Easy sharing through rich, visual content At Pingtumi, privacy matters. • No phone number required to subscribe • No contact access required • No selling of your data Pingtumi isn’t just one app — it’s a flexible collection of mini apps built for creativity, communication, and connection. Download Pingtumi and explore the app that fits the moment. Happy Pinging!

About

DefaultSMS

This app allows you to set your preferred messaging applications like Telegram or WhatsApp as the default for handling SMS and tapping on phone number links. It acts as a redirector, ensuring convenience and privacy by processing all data on-device.

Highlights
  • Set default messaging app
  • Redirect SMS and link taps
  • Supports Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal
  • On-device data processing
  • Easy setup
  • Privacy-focused
Read full description

Popular messaging platforms such as Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal has yet to support the new Default Apps option in Settings, which would have allowed your iPhone to automatically use these apps instead of the stock Messages app for sending messages or when you tap on phone numbers or message links. That's why we've made DefaultSMS - It acts as a redirector to enable you to set your Default Messaging App as Telegram, WhatsApp or Signal!  When you tap on a phone number anywhere on your phone, the system will prompt you to ask if you would like to call or message. Once you've set DefaultSMS up, you can directly open your favourite messaging app, in place of the default stock Messages app, for ultimate convenience! We have also designed the app with privacy in mind, ensuring that all processes are done on device, with no phone numbers or data logged anywhere in app. It simply accepts the details that the system provides, and passing it along to the messaging app that you prefer. Setup is easy too. Simply set DefaultSMS as your default messaging app in the Settings app, and choose your desired messaging app in DefaultSMS. Note: DefaultSMS is a product made by an independent developer, and is not supported, endorsed or affiliated with WhatsApp Messenger, Telegram Messenger or Signal Messenger, in any way or form.

Screenshots

Pingtumi4 screens
DefaultSMS2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pingtumi at Free against DefaultSMS's $0.99. Pingtumi also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). DefaultSMS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On rating, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pingtumi is free to download; DefaultSMS costs $0.99 up front. Pingtumi sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. DefaultSMS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Pingtumi against 4.7 for DefaultSMS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Pingtumi's written reviews are positive against 100% of DefaultSMS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pingtumi ships an update weekly, DefaultSMS every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 2, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Pingtumi versus DefaultSMS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPingtumiDefaultSMS
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (8 ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8 — better3
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#129 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size489 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPingtumi, Inc.Vincent Neo

Customer experience

Pingtumi

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

DefaultSMS

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Pingtumi

One-time5
  • 6 Coins$2.49
  • 10 Coins$3.99
  • 20 Coins$6.99
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  • 50 Coins$14.99
  • 100 Coins$24.99
None

DefaultSMS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pingtumi free?
Pingtumi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DefaultSMS free?
DefaultSMS costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pingtumi or DefaultSMS?
DefaultSMS is rated higher. Pingtumi averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while DefaultSMS averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Pingtumi or DefaultSMS have ads?
Neither Pingtumi nor DefaultSMS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pingtumi or DefaultSMS?
Pingtumi ships an update weekly, and DefaultSMS every 3 weeks. Most recently, Pingtumi was updated on September 2, 2026 and DefaultSMS on September 23, 2026.

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