SimpleTexting vs Community
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleTexting
This app enables businesses to send mass SMS and MMS campaigns to large groups or engage in one-on-one conversations. It offers features for scheduling messages, managing contacts, and tracking campaign analytics to streamline business communication.
- Mass SMS/MMS campaigns
- Two-way threaded inbox
- Scheduled texts and drip campaigns
- Contact list management
- Text-to-join keywords
- Campaign analytics
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Everyone reads their texts. SimpleTexting helps you send them. With our app, your business can reach large groups with mass texts or connect one-on-one with two-way messaging. Use SimpleTexting to: Send texts to large groups • Create and send mass SMS and MMS campaign to a list of contacts • Add images to your campaigns right from your Camera Roll • View replies rates, click-through rates, and other analytics Have two-way conversations • Text individual contacts from in an intuitive, threaded inbox • Assign conversations to other teammates • Snooze conversations or mark them as done to keep your inbox tidy • Sort conversions by open, scheduled, snoozed, closed, and unread Set up automated texts • Schedule mass texts or individual replies ahead of time • Create drip campaigns to keep subscribers engaged • Add an away message to get back to messages right away Manage your contacts • View, add, or update your lists and segments • Create text-to-join keywords to build your list of contacts • Keep an eye on subscriber growth and unsubscribes About SimpleTexting SimpleTexting simplifies communication for small businesses. With over 17,000 customers, we send millions of texts every day. From team updates to marketing campaigns, we provide all you need for seamless texting. SimpleTexting is part of Sinch, a leading global Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) provider, offering messaging, voice and video communication solutions to a global customer base.
Community
This app enables leaders to build direct relationships and engage in one-on-one conversations with their members at scale via text messaging. It facilitates trusted marketing and communication channels, driving member actions, sales, and revenue.
- Direct member communication
- One-on-one conversations
- Text messaging at scale
- Trusted marketing channel
- Drive member actions
- Convert to sales and revenue
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Community powers direct relationships and one-on-one conversations between Leaders and their Members through text messaging at scale. Launched in 2019 and headquartered in Santa Monica, CA, Community is breaking new ground in trusted marketing and communications channels by connecting Leaders - global pop culture stars, local community organizers, small business owners, media companies, and brands - to their Members to drive conversations that convert into actions, sales, revenue and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SimpleTexting at 4.7 against Community's 3.2. SimpleTexting also leads on ratings volume (3.4K vs 140) and device support (3 vs 1). Community's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SimpleTexting holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SimpleTexting has 3.4K ratings behind it against 140, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of SimpleTexting's written reviews are positive against 29% of Community's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SimpleTexting ships an update every 3 months, Community every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleTexting | Community |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.4K ratings) — better | 3.2 (140 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 21.8% of reviews | 28.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.4K — better | 140 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Made Simple Ventures LLC | Community.com, Inc. |
Customer experience
SimpleTexting
Community
User reviews
SimpleTexting
From 3.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 💡 Helpful for businesses
- 🚀 Efficient mass messaging
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🐛 Unreliable notifications
- 🐛 Slow loading and performance issues
- 💰 Expensive pricing
- 🔒 Privacy concerns
Community
From 140 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simplifies life
- 👍 Very useful
- 👍 Powerful tool
- 👍 Great for texting audience
- 👍 Super easy to use
Room to improve
- 🐛 Login issues
- 🐛 Not working
- 🐛 Unresponsive company
- 🐛 Unvalued customers
- 🐛 Frustrating experience
Bugs and requests
SimpleTexting
Reported bugs
4 issues- App freezes and crashes
- Blank screens and loading issues
- Persistent notification badges
- Inconsistent message delivery
Requested features
4 requests- Improved app stability and reliability
- Better notification system
- More transparent pricing and plans
- Enhanced integration with other platforms
Community
Reported bugs
32 issues- Email or password incorrect
- Login issues
- Cannot copy and paste
- Support emails unresponsive
- Cannot cancel subscription
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- Video and photo features are bad
- New update removed key feature
- Cannot send messages to specific communities together
- Filter removes all recipients
- App Store not allowing update
- App requires iOS 16 or higher
- Multiple phones cannot use app
- App won't load
- Crashes constantly
- Cannot copy paste responses or links
- Software has so many bugs
- App is unstable
- Notifications don't show randomly
- Messages disappear then show up again
- Low quality video
- App won't even load
- Billed twice after cancellation
- Hides phone numbers collected
- Doesn't show collected numbers
- Limited to 1000 recipients per month
- Help email rejected
- Delayed messages
- App crashes often
- Bugs continue to be an issue
- Forgot password issues
- Reset password email never sent
- No answer from support emails
Requested features
8 requests- Dark Mode
- Notifications for new texts
- See names of birthday celebrants
- Push notifications
- Option to choose message notifications
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- Online ability to manage account members
- Text from Apple Watches
- Make phone numbers optional
In-app purchases
SimpleTexting
No in-app purchases
Community
No in-app purchases







