CallHippo vs Telerivet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CallHippo
This virtual phone system provides local and toll-free numbers from over 50 countries. Businesses can quickly set up a complete phone system with an intuitive interface and powerful backend.
- Virtual phone system
- Local & Toll Free numbers
- 50+ countries
- Instant setup
- Easy to use interface
- Robust backend
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CallHippo is a VoIP based Virtual Phone System which allows startups, small business and enterprise to get Local & Toll Free numbers instantly from over 50+ countries around the world. With our easy to use interface and robust backend architecture, any business can setup their phone system in less than 3 minutes.
Telerivet
Facilitate global customer, employee, and community communication via SMS and voice. Organize messages and contacts, and build automated services like polls and subscriptions. Manage campaigns and services on the go with mobile notifications.
- Send and receive SMS
- Organize messages and contacts
- Automated services (polls, subscriptions)
- Interactive voice response (IVR)
- Team messaging from virtual numbers
- Mobile campaign management
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Telerivet makes it easy for businesses and organizations anywhere in the world to communicate with their customers, employees, and community via SMS and voice. Telerivet provides powerful tools to send and receive SMS, organize your messages and contacts, and create automated services such as opt-in subscriptions, polls, auto-replies, and interactive voice response systems. By connecting one or more virtual phone numbers to your Telerivet account, you can allow mobile phone users to send SMS messages to your business or organization. You can also invite your entire team to send messages from your virtual number or alphanumeric sender ID. With the Telerivet app, you can receive notifications when someone sends an SMS to your virtual number, and manage your campaigns and services from your phone. SMS and voice calls are sent and received via third-party providers such as Nexmo, not from the iOS device itself. The Telerivet iOS app provides a mobile-friendly interface to the functionality in the Telerivet web app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Telerivet at 100% against CallHippo's 28%. Telerivet also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.8) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). CallHippo's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (52 vs 6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Telerivet holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CallHippo has 52 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of CallHippo's written reviews are positive against 100% of Telerivet's.
CallHippo ships an update every 3 weeks, Telerivet every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CallHippo | Telerivet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (52 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ankit Dudhwewala | Telerivet, Inc. |
Customer experience
CallHippo
Telerivet
Bugs and requests
CallHippo
Reported bugs
19 issues- App crashes frequently on iOS
- Session expired and keeps loading
- App crashes on MacBook
- App crashes on startup
- App crashes when opening SMS conversations
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- App crashes after updates
- App doesn't ring on phone
- App doesn't allow login
- App doesn't stay open on iPhone
- App crashes on iPhone X
- App crashes when SMS feature is used
- Cannot create account
- App doesn't work
- Cannot answer phone calls
- Cannot login with website credentials
- Cannot receive calls
- Cannot receive SMS
- Virtual number disappeared
- App not working on iPhone
Requested features
6 requests- Fix UI for iPhone
- Improve iOS app reliability
- Allow sending photos in text messages
- Support Google sign-in on app
- Allow sending international messages
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- More attractive UI
Telerivet
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CallHippo
No in-app purchases
Telerivet
No in-app purchases
