Captivated Texting vs Dashboard AE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Captivated Texting
Communicate with customers via text message using your business landline. Send and receive messages, photos, videos, and collect payments. Organize contacts, schedule messages, and automate workflows for efficient business communication.
- Send/receive texts, photos, videos
- Contact management and organization
- Payment collection via text
- Message scheduling and automation
- Internal team chat
- Appointment booking and management
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Your business already has a phone number. Captivated turns it into a real conversation channel — no app for customers to download, no new number to remember. They just text you, the same way they text everyone else in their life. From the thread, your team does the actual job. Send real-time messages loaded with photos and videos when a phone call won't cut it. Keep every contact organized with editable profiles, tags, and internal notes only your team can see. Dig up any conversation instantly with search. Running behind on something? Schedule a message and it goes out exactly when you meant it to. Payments, paperwork, and appointments live in the same thread. Collect payments by credit card or ACH, send forms and surveys, request a customer's location, and book appointments straight onto your calendar — synced with Google or Microsoft, so nothing falls through the cracks. Send your business contact card and a customer has your number saved in one tap. Growing your list is just as simple with built-in opt-in links and QR codes. And when volume picks up, Captivated scales with you. Unlimited keyword replies route conversations automatically, automations send the right message to the right department without anyone lifting a finger, and workflows keep your whole team following the same playbook. Need to loop in a coworker without leaving the app? Internal team chat keeps that conversation right next to the customer one. Your customers are already texting everyone else in their life. Give them a reason to text you too.
Dashboard AE
This event app helps attendees navigate curated drive routes and stay updated with real-time agendas and reminders. It also provides access to product information and allows direct chat with event staff.
- Real-time agenda with reminders
- Curated drive route navigation
- Product and venue information
- Chat with event staff
- Event-specific content access
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Dashboard AE is an automotive-focused event app for smartphones. It provides event attendees with a real-time agenda, drive route, and chat function. Product and venue information is also available. The app's intended use is for events where participants drive a vehicle on a specific route. Use Dashboard AE to: - Navigate a curated drive route (patent pending) - View agenda items and get reminders about the items - Find product specifications - Chat with event staff
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dashboard AE at 5.0 against Captivated Texting's 3.5. Dashboard AE also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). Captivated Texting's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
Dashboard AE holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Captivated Texting has 20 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Captivated Texting ships an update every 7 months, Dashboard AE every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Captivated Texting | Dashboard AE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Captivated, LLC | Automotive Events |
Customer experience
Captivated Texting
Dashboard AE
In-app purchases
Captivated Texting
No in-app purchases
Dashboard AE
No in-app purchases









