Comparison

Captivated Texting vs Standard Bell SMS

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

Standard Bell SMS

Send and receive text messages using your dedicated business phone number. This app allows individuals and teams to communicate with customers via SMS and MMS from a business line, accessible across multiple devices and browsers. It simplifies customer outreach by enabling them to text your business number just like they would a personal contact.

Highlights
  • Send/receive texts from business number
  • Text and picture messaging
  • Multi-device access
  • Web browser access
  • Team access to shared number
Features
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With Standard Bell SMS, you can send and receive texts from your Standard Bell business phone numbers. Make and receive text messages using your business phone number! • Use your business phone number to text instead of your personal number • Send and receive text and picture messages to/from any cell phone number in the continental US View your messages on multiple devices: • Use your account on multiple devices with one sign-in • Access your messages from any computer via your browser (Chrome/Firefox/Edge) • Multiple users can access the same number so you or your team can reply to any message Now your customers can communicate with you with the ease and convenience that they have when texting with friends and family. No need to download a separate messaging “app” to contact you - they can simply text your business number and get in touch.

Screenshots

Captivated Texting4 screens
Standard Bell SMS3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Standard Bell SMS at 100% against Captivated Texting's 0%. Standard Bell SMS also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5). Captivated Texting's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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

Standard Bell SMS 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Captivated Texting's written reviews are positive against 100% of Standard Bell SMS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Captivated Texting ships an update every 7 months, Standard Bell SMS every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Captivated Texting versus Standard Bell SMS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCaptivated TextingStandard Bell SMS
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (20 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.014.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCaptivated, LLCTextable

Customer experience

Captivated Texting

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

Standard Bell SMS

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Captivated Texting

No in-app purchases

None

Standard Bell SMS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Captivated Texting free?
Captivated Texting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Standard Bell SMS free?
Standard Bell SMS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Captivated Texting or Standard Bell SMS?
Standard Bell SMS is rated higher. Captivated Texting averages 3.5 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Standard Bell SMS averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Captivated Texting or Standard Bell SMS have ads?
Neither Captivated Texting nor Standard Bell SMS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Captivated Texting or Standard Bell SMS?
Captivated Texting ships an update every 7 months, and Standard Bell SMS every 4 months. Most recently, Captivated Texting was updated on October 11, 2026 and Standard Bell SMS on October 17, 2026.

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