alive5 vs Beetexting
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.
Beetexting
This business text messaging app enables sales and service teams to foster stronger customer relationships. It functions as a comprehensive SMS/MMS CRM, allowing for conversational texting, mass messaging, and team collaboration. Access services from desktop or on-the-go.
- Conversational texting
- Mass texting/broadcast messages
- Targeted customer lists
- Team collaboration and notes
- Scheduled messages
- SMS/MMS autoresponders
- Text-enable existing phone numbers
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Beetexting is a business text messaging app that sales and service teams use to build deeper stronger relationships with their customers and clients. Team's love it because it's more than just text message marketing software for mass texting; it's an entire texting platform or SMS/MMS CRM for teams to have conversational discussions with each other and their customers thru text message. Your team can access the services from their desktop computer or on-the-go with this app. This is a companion app for Beetexting users to access their services on-the-go.Here are some of Beetexting's features you can take for a test drive as part of our 14-day free trial: SMS Marketing Mass text or Broadcast Messages Tag Customers to Make Targeted Lists Text Customers One-on-one / Conversational Texting Group Texting Filter Inbox to Stay Organized Claim Conversations Resolve Conversations Transfer Conversations to a Teammate Internal Team Notes Tag Teammates on Internal Notes to Notify Them Schedule Text Messages Templates and Shared Team Quick Replies Business Texting Service with SMS/MMS SMS/MMS Out of Office Autoresponders SMS/MM Keyword Autoresponders and Automations Business SMS (send text, links, and emojis) Business MMS (send images, videos, documents, and GIFs) Text Enable Existing Landlines or VOIP Phone Numbers Create New Local Numbers (you choose your area code) Create New Toll-Free Numbers Much, Much More ++++ Beetexting; a beeline to deeper customer relationships. Questions? Give us a buzz! (309) 605-0390 (call or text)
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Verdict
alive5 and Beetexting both sit at 3.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 25% of Beetexting's written reviews are positive against 0% of alive5's. Beetexting also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). alive5's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 Beetexting. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 20 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of alive5's written reviews are positive against 25% of Beetexting's.
alive5 ships an update every 2 months, Beetexting fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | alive5 | Beetexting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (10 ratings) — better | 3.1 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Alive5, Inc | Technocentra Group LLC |
Customer experience
alive5
Beetexting
In-app purchases
alive5
No in-app purchases
Beetexting
No in-app purchases









