Textline vs SimpleTexting
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
SimpleTexting
This app enables businesses to send mass SMS and MMS campaigns to large groups or engage in one-on-one conversations. It offers features for scheduling messages, managing contacts, and tracking campaign analytics to streamline business communication.
- Mass SMS/MMS campaigns
- Two-way threaded inbox
- Scheduled texts and drip campaigns
- Contact list management
- Text-to-join keywords
- Campaign analytics
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Everyone reads their texts. SimpleTexting helps you send them. With our app, your business can reach large groups with mass texts or connect one-on-one with two-way messaging. Use SimpleTexting to: Send texts to large groups • Create and send mass SMS and MMS campaign to a list of contacts • Add images to your campaigns right from your Camera Roll • View replies rates, click-through rates, and other analytics Have two-way conversations • Text individual contacts from in an intuitive, threaded inbox • Assign conversations to other teammates • Snooze conversations or mark them as done to keep your inbox tidy • Sort conversions by open, scheduled, snoozed, closed, and unread Set up automated texts • Schedule mass texts or individual replies ahead of time • Create drip campaigns to keep subscribers engaged • Add an away message to get back to messages right away Manage your contacts • View, add, or update your lists and segments • Create text-to-join keywords to build your list of contacts • Keep an eye on subscriber growth and unsubscribes About SimpleTexting SimpleTexting simplifies communication for small businesses. With over 17,000 customers, we send millions of texts every day. From team updates to marketing campaigns, we provide all you need for seamless texting. SimpleTexting is part of Sinch, a leading global Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) provider, offering messaging, voice and video communication solutions to a global customer base.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SimpleTexting at 4.7 against Textline's 2.7. SimpleTexting also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (3.4K vs 22). Textline's advantage is review sentiment (35% vs 22%) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SimpleTexting holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SimpleTexting has 3.4K ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 35% of Textline's written reviews are positive against 22% of SimpleTexting'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, SimpleTexting every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Textline | SimpleTexting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (22 ratings) | 4.7 (3.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.3% of reviews — better | 21.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 22 | 3.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Textline, Inc | Made Simple Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
Textline
SimpleTexting
Bugs and requests
Textline
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SimpleTexting
Reported bugs
4 issues- App freezes and crashes
- Blank screens and loading issues
- Persistent notification badges
- Inconsistent message delivery
Requested features
4 requests- Improved app stability and reliability
- Better notification system
- More transparent pricing and plans
- Enhanced integration with other platforms
In-app purchases
Textline
No in-app purchases
SimpleTexting
No in-app purchases








