Comparison

Captivated Texting vs Insellerate

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

Head to head
About

Captivated Texting

Transform your business phone number into a conversational channel. Communicate with customers via text, share rich media, and manage contacts. Streamline payments, appointments, and paperwork directly within conversations.

Highlights
  • Customer texting channel
  • Media sharing
  • Contact organization
  • Searchable conversations
  • Scheduled messages
  • Payment collection
  • Appointment booking
  • Automated replies
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

Insellerate

This app offers mortgage professionals tools for lead management, marketing automation, and real-time communication. It integrates with LOS systems to streamline pipeline management and enhance client interactions.

Highlights
  • Lead management and distribution
  • Marketing automation
  • LOS integration
  • In-app real-time communication
  • Pipeline management
Features
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The Insellerate, LLC mobile application provides mortgage professionals mobile lead management and distribution, marketing automation, LOS integration, in-app real-time communication via phone or SMS, and overall pipeline management.

Screenshots

Captivated Texting4 screens
Insellerate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Insellerate at 67% against Captivated Texting's 0%. Insellerate also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). Captivated Texting's advantage is rating (3.5 vs 2.9). 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

Captivated Texting holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 15 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Captivated Texting's written reviews are positive against 67% of Insellerate's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Captivated Texting ships an update every 7 months, Insellerate monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Captivated Texting versus Insellerate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCaptivated TextingInsellerate
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (20 ratings) — better2.9 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB28 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCaptivated, LLCInsellerate

Customer experience

Captivated Texting

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

Insellerate

All ratings15 ratings
Positive46.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative53.3%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Captivated Texting

No in-app purchases

None

Insellerate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Captivated Texting free?
Captivated Texting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Insellerate free?
Insellerate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Captivated Texting or Insellerate?
Captivated Texting is rated higher. Captivated Texting averages 3.5 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Insellerate averages 2.9 from 15 ratings.
Do Captivated Texting or Insellerate have ads?
Neither Captivated Texting nor Insellerate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Captivated Texting or Insellerate?
Captivated Texting ships an update every 7 months, and Insellerate monthly. Most recently, Captivated Texting was updated on November 11, 2026 and Insellerate on November 3, 2026.

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