Pingtumi vs DefaultSMS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
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.
- Set default messaging app
- Redirect SMS and link taps
- Supports Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal
- On-device data processing
- Easy setup
- Privacy-focused
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Pingtumi ships an update weekly, DefaultSMS every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 2, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pingtumi | DefaultSMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #129 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 489 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pingtumi, Inc. | Vincent Neo |
Customer experience
Pingtumi
DefaultSMS
In-app purchases
Pingtumi
- 6 Coins$2.49
- 10 Coins$3.99
- 20 Coins$6.99
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- 50 Coins$14.99
- 100 Coins$24.99
DefaultSMS
No in-app purchases









