Comparison

Captivated Texting vs UPExperience

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Send/receive texts, photos, videos
  • Contact management and organization
  • Payment collection via text
  • Message scheduling and automation
  • Internal team chat
  • Appointment booking and management
Features
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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.

About

UPExperience

This business texting solution enables companies to communicate directly with customers via SMS, ensuring high open rates and real-time engagement. It facilitates instant notifications for responses, surveys, signatures, and payments, syncing across devices for seamless communication.

Highlights
  • TCPA Compliant Business Texting
  • Real-time Customer Communication
  • Instant Notifications
  • Cross-device Syncing
  • Automated Messaging
Features
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UpdatePromise powers more than 20,000 businesses today and is now available for Mac OS. Consumers expect to be communicated with via SMS Text Messaging, UpdatePromise helps you meet that expectation through TCPA Compliant Business Texting solutions that have been proven by over 10 Million Consumer Connections. UpdatePromise communicates directly to your customers' cell phones without the need for them to install an app. And since more than 96% of text messages are opened within 90 seconds, you and your customers will be communicating in real time! Real time communications generate increased sales, higher customer satisfaction rates and Net Promoter Scores that build your brand and repeat customer base, further increasing your revenue and profits! Instant notifications tell you when a customer responds to a text message, gives a negative survey or completed an online electronic signature or payment. The UpdatePromise Mac OS app is synced across your desktop and other mobile devices in real time so you never miss a message, alert or instant notification. Automated Messaging (On Integrated Systems)

Screenshots

Captivated Texting4 screens
UPExperience4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: UPExperience at 50% against Captivated Texting's 0%. UPExperience also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months) and rating (3.8 vs 3.5). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

UPExperience holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Captivated Texting's written reviews are positive against 50% of UPExperience's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Captivated Texting ships an update every 7 months, UPExperience every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Captivated Texting versus UPExperience: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCaptivated TextingUPExperience
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (20 ratings)3.8 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20 — better13
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCaptivated, LLCFlash of Genius, Incorporated

Customer experience

Captivated Texting

All ratings20 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative75.0%

UPExperience

All ratings13 ratings
Positive69.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.8%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Captivated Texting

No in-app purchases

None

UPExperience

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Captivated Texting free?
Captivated Texting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is UPExperience free?
UPExperience is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Captivated Texting or UPExperience?
UPExperience is rated higher. Captivated Texting averages 3.5 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while UPExperience averages 3.8 from 13 ratings.
Do Captivated Texting or UPExperience have ads?
Neither Captivated Texting nor UPExperience shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Captivated Texting or UPExperience?
Captivated Texting ships an update every 7 months, and UPExperience every 2 weeks. Most recently, Captivated Texting was updated on September 25, 2026 and UPExperience on June 1, 2026.

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