Inbox vs respond.io
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inbox
This app allows teams to communicate with customers through live chat on their website or mobile app. It provides conversation history, notes, and enhanced customer information for better engagement. Stay connected with your audience anytime, anywhere.
- Live chat with customers
- Receive real-time notifications
- View full conversation history
- Add notes to customer profiles
- Access enhanced customer information
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Inbox by GoSquared enables teams to talk with their customers via Live Chat while on the go. Receive notifications when customers ask questions via GoSquared Live Chat on your website or in your iOS app. For every customer, you can see the whole conversation history, add notes and even see enhanced information about the person you're speaking with. GoSquared Live Chat transforms the way your team communicates with your visitors and customers. If you’re new to GoSquared, check out our website first – you can learn more and sign up for free today.
respond.io
Manage customer conversations from multiple messaging channels in one unified inbox. Empower your team with AI-assisted replies, real-time updates, and contact management to enhance marketing, sales, and support efforts.
- Unified inbox for all channels
- Team collaboration on conversations
- AI-assisted replies and translation
- Real-time message notifications
- Contact management and updates
- Spam message filtering
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Connect with customers anytime, anywhere with the respond.io mobile app. Respond.io is a customer conversation platform where human teams and AI Agents manage WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, voice, and email conversations — all from one inbox, on your phone. Key features: - Unified inbox: See every WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, and email conversation in one inbox, alongside your team. - AI Agents: Let AI Agents answer, qualify, and hand off conversations to your team the moment a human needs to step in — with the full conversation history carried over. - Team collaboration: Assign or reassign conversations to Agents or AI Agents, add internal comments for context, and see AI-generated conversation summaries and closing notes automatically. - Calls: Answer and return voice calls in the same thread as your chats — for your team, and your AI Agents. - Reply with AI Assist: Draft accurate replies and translate conversations in real time, so language differences don't slow down a response. - Lifecycle stages: Move a contact through Lifecycle stages — New Lead, Hot Lead, Customer, and more — right from the conversation, so pipeline progress stays current wherever your team is. - Real-time updates: Get instant notifications for new messages, so you can respond quickly and keep conversations moving, wherever you are. - Add & update contacts: Add new contacts on the spot and keep existing contact data current, so every reply is based on accurate information. - Spam management: Block spam automatically, so your inbox only shows genuine conversations. Download the respond.io mobile app to keep every conversation — and every deal — moving, wherever your team is. New to respond.io? Sign up for an account on desktop to get started.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: respond.io at 4.3 against Inbox's 2.0. respond.io also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). Inbox's advantage is review sentiment (25% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
respond.io holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 17 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of Inbox's written reviews are positive against 0% of respond.io's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Inbox ships an update monthly, respond.io every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inbox | respond.io |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (6 ratings) | 4.3 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Go Squared Ltd. | Rocketbots |
Customer experience
Inbox
respond.io
In-app purchases
Inbox
No in-app purchases
respond.io
No in-app purchases









