alive5 vs Textable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
alive5
This app streamlines customer communication for agents on the go. It allows for accepting live chat requests and responding to customers via SMS/text messaging, with improvements to real-time conversation loading and message sending functionality.
- Accept live chat requests
- Respond via SMS/Text Messaging
- Real-time conversation loading
- Improved message sending
- Simplified interface
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Introducing a brand new, simplified and minimized Alive5 mobile app. We’ve redesigned and rebuilt this to work better for Agents on the go who want to accept live chat requests and answer customers via SMS/Text Messaging. Many issues were resolved where the chat conversations would not load in real-time, and also some phone versions had issues accessing the textarea to send messages.
Textable
Enable your business phone number to send and receive text and picture messages from multiple devices. Your customers can text your business number directly, and your team can manage conversations from any computer or device.
- Use business number for texting
- Send/receive texts and pictures
- Multi-device access
- Browser access on computers
- Multiple user support
- Customer texting convenience
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Is your business textable? Textable allows your business phone number to send and receive messages from multiple devices. • 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. Supported SIP Providers: Twilio Flowroute VOIP.ms Bandwidth.com Telnyx Skyetel VoIP Innovations ...and many more!
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Verdict
alive5 and Textable both sit at 3.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 42% of Textable's written reviews are positive against 0% of alive5's. Textable also leads on ratings volume (30 vs 10). alive5's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.2 for alive5 against 3.1 for Textable. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 30 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of alive5's written reviews are positive against 42% of Textable's.
alive5 ships an update every 2 months, Textable every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | alive5 | Textable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (10 ratings) — better | 3.1 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 41.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alive5, Inc | Textable LLC |
Customer experience
alive5
Textable
In-app purchases
alive5
No in-app purchases
Textable
No in-app purchases
