Captivated Texting vs MessageView
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.
MessageView
This business texting application helps companies engage with customers through features like auto-replies and message blasts. It includes built-in reporting tools for response tracking and archives all messages for security and auditing.
- Customer engagement tools
- Auto-replies
- Message blasts
- Response tracking
- Message archiving
- Auditing capabilities
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Allow customers to engage with you, not just communicate. MessageView is a business texting application that has features such as auto-replies, and message blasts. The built-in reporting tools contain response tracking so you remain in full compliance. All messages are archived for security and auditing purposes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MessageView at 4.3 against Captivated Texting's 3.5. MessageView also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). Captivated Texting's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
MessageView holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 6 respectively.
Captivated Texting ships an update every 7 months, MessageView every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Captivated Texting | MessageView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (20 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Captivated, LLC | Brightlink Communications LLC |
Customer experience
Captivated Texting
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In-app purchases
Captivated Texting
No in-app purchases
MessageView
No in-app purchases
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