Textline vs Tresta
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Textline
Enable your team to provide customer support and sales through SMS. Customers can text your business directly without needing an app, leveraging the high open rates of text messages for faster responses and improved satisfaction. This mobile app syncs with the web service for on-the-go team collaboration.
- Team SMS for customer support
- Dedicated business phone numbers
- Syncs with web service
- Conversation assignments
- Message templates
- Automated responses
- NPS surveys via SMS
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Deliver innovative, personalized Customer Support and Sales for your Business. Textline lets your whole team chat with customers using SMS, not Short Codes. Your customers won't need to install an app, they can text your business via your dedicated Textline phone number. Since 98% of text messages are opened, customers are 7x more likely to respond to your text compared to a phone call or email. Textline decreases response time and improves customer satisfaction. The Textline iOS app is a companion app to the Textline web service, intended to provide a set of on-the-go features to Textline users. * iPhone App syncs with textline.com for both Mobile and Desktop use * Multiple Phone Numbers for different Departments * Text Message as a Team with accounts for multiple Agents * Assignments: Assign Conversations to Team Members * Whispers: Include notes inline with Customer Conversations * Shortcuts: Store templates for frequently used business text replies * Address Book: Save searchable notes about your loyal customers * Notifications: Get alerts on your Desktop or Mobile device when New Messages arrive * Auto Responses: Send an automated greeting or a special message for offline hours * Availability: Toggle your status from Available to Away * Scheduled Messages: Compose a text message to be sent later * Facebook Messenger: Add your Facebook page as an additional Department * NPS: Send Net Promoter Score surveys via SMS * Integrations: Connect Textline to Zendesk, Slack, and Zapier
Tresta
This business phone system offers unlimited calling and texting on a dedicated business number, accessible from your smartphone. It provides essential collaboration features to enhance your company's professional image and communication capabilities.
- Unlimited calling
- Unlimited texting
- Business phone number
- Collaboration features
- Mobile accessibility
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Tresta is a business phone system that’s as mobile as you are, with all the calling, texting and collaboration features you need to help your business look its best. Install Tresta on your smartphone today and begin taking advantage of unlimited calling and texting on your business phone number - from anywhere. Note: The Tresta app uses call bridging to facilitate outbound calls. This requires voice and data to access with your iPhone service provider.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tresta at 4.7 against Textline's 2.7. Tresta also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Textline's advantage is review sentiment (35% vs 17%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Tresta holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 12 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 35% of Textline's written reviews are positive against 17% of Tresta's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Textline ships an update every 2 months, Tresta monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Textline | Tresta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (22 ratings) | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.3% of reviews — better | 17.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Textline, Inc | Tresta |
Customer experience
Textline
Tresta
In-app purchases
Textline
No in-app purchases
Tresta
No in-app purchases








