Comparison

Skipio Messaging vs Texty Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Skipio Messaging

This app provides a powerful texting solution for businesses to enhance lead conversion and customer retention. It offers a streamlined way to engage with customers and prospects directly through their mobile devices.

Highlights
  • Lead conversion texting
  • Customer retention texting
  • Business communication
  • SMS marketing
  • Prospect engagement
Features
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Skipio is the ultimate lead conversion and customer retention texting solution for your business.

About

Texty Pro

Communicate with customers via SMS using your existing business landline or VoIP number. Collaborate with your team through a shared inbox, private notes, and dedicated channels. Send and receive multimedia messages, schedule texts, and use canned responses for efficiency.

Highlights
  • Use existing business phone number for SMS
  • Shared inbox for team collaboration
  • Private notes and conversation assignment
  • Public channels for teams and projects
  • Send/receive multimedia messages
  • Schedule text messages
  • Canned responses for quick replies
Features
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Text your customers using your existing business landline or VoIP phone number, collaborate with staff—all in one place. When you send them a text, they'll see that it came from your business phone number. Talk to more customers in less time—without the busywork. Texty Pro is the preferred platform for conversational business SMS text messaging. Forget phone calls, emails or chat. Customers want what’s easy and that’s standard text messages. Texty Pro allows you to communicate faster to make more sales by allowing you to send and receive text messages on your current business landline/VoIP phone number from anywhere. Save over an hour of your day by texting instead of answering calls! COLLABORATIVE TEXTING WITH YOUR TEAM View all the text messages in one place from any iPhone or iPad with the shared inbox so you spend less time with busywork and more time supporting customers and team members. Reply to customers' SMS text message inquiries instantly, route texts to the right staff, and jump in on any current conversation to lend a hand. ADD CONTEXT WHERE YOU NEED IT Scattered notes are a thing of the past. Give context directly on the text thread by leaving private notes that only you and your team members can read and improve accountability by assigning a conversation to you or someone. STAY FOCUSED AND ORGANIZED WITH PRIVATE CHANNELS Bring productivity to your work by creating public channels for teams, projects, ideas and more to stay focused on the current agenda everywhere, as a group. DISCUSS IN PRIVATE WITH DIRECT MESSAGES When you need to have a private discussion, just send a direct message to an individual or group direct message. USE YOUR CURRENT BUSINESS PHONE NUMBER: No need to complicate things. Simply let all your customers know that your current business phone number is text enabled (both traditional landline & VoIP phone numbers are supported). Have more than 1 business number? Add all of your phone numbers in the same account and assign them to the relevant person or department. NO ADDITIONAL HARDWARE REQUIRED: All you need is your iPhone or iPad with internet connection. No porting, forwarding, virtual numbers, hardware or services are required from your telephone company. MULTIMEDIA: Want to send and receive picture messages with customers? Sure. Go right ahead! Send emojis, pictures, GIFs, videos, voice clips, PDFs, and vCards! TEXT ON YOUR COMPUTER: You can also text with customers right from your Safari web browser on any mac TEXT WITHOUT TYPING: With just a few clicks, effortlessly send your text message using personalized canned responses.

TEXT AHEAD OF TIME: Save time and effort by planning and scheduling text messages in advance. [NOTE] • WORKS WITH TEXTY PRO WEB SERVICE: Already have Texty Pro service? Simply download and log in to securely text with customers from anywhere on your iPhone or iPad (using your device’s internet connection*). • Data charges may apply. Check with your provider for details.

Screenshots

Skipio Messaging4 screens
Texty Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Skipio Messaging at 3.8 against Texty Pro's 3.0. Skipio Messaging also leads on ratings volume (125 vs 2) and review sentiment (59% vs 40%). Texty Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). 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

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

Skipio Messaging holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skipio Messaging has 125 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Skipio Messaging's written reviews are positive against 40% of Texty Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Skipio Messaging ships an update every 3 months, Texty Pro every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Skipio Messaging versus Texty Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkipio MessagingTexty Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (125 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews59.2% of reviews — better40.0% of reviews
Number of ratings125 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSkipio, LLCXEDIA NETWORKS, INC.

Customer experience

Skipio Messaging

All ratings125 ratings
Positive67.2%
Neutral9.6%
Negative23.2%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive59.2%
Neutral15.5%
Negative25.4%

Texty Pro

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%

Bugs and requests

Skipio Messaging

Reported bugs

63 issues
  • Login issues on Android
  • Error messages preventing client responses
  • Forwarding not working
  • Scheduled messages not being received
  • Text messages appearing scrambled
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  • Photo library not opening correctly
  • No landscape mode on iPad
  • Web version 'send' button missing
  • Web version consistently logs out or disables login
  • App is buggy
  • App freezes frequently
  • App does not send messages
  • App requires account deletion to downgrade
  • Cannot carry back-and-forth conversations without restarting
  • New messages do not appear without manual refresh
  • Getting back to the main screen is impossible
  • Unable to view scheduled messages on the app
  • App freezes on a daily basis
  • App crashes daily
  • App requires daily reinstallation
  • App does not work on phone
  • Cannot submit login credentials
  • Cannot manually remove a contact from a campaign
  • Previous version had more functionality
  • Cannot call a contact from within the app
  • Cannot text a contact from within the app
  • Search for contact by name returns 'zilch'
  • App crashes every single time
  • Displays 'sorry. Something went wrong'
  • No notifications on mobile devices
  • No character count displayed
  • Messages over character limit do not send
  • Messages are not showing up in real time
  • Significant delay in messages
  • Users are replying to older messages
  • No way to call a person from the app
  • No answers from support for numerous requests
  • Upgrades are less user-friendly
  • Some tasks take longer to complete
  • App quits unexpectedly
  • Incoming messages never show or load
  • Outgoing messages do not get sent
  • Mechanism to report issues removed
  • Login process is unclear
  • Update is very glitchy
  • Cannot see scheduled messages section
  • Cannot see date and time when scheduling messages
  • App does not work with newest iOS update
  • App crashes immediately
  • App does not deliver notifications for new texts
  • App keeps crashing
  • Mobile app is slow to sync with desktop
  • App is confusing
  • App glitched and missed important messages
  • App does not work
  • App does not load anything in the account
  • Cannot send a new message
  • Message counter shows negative red numbers
  • Send icon is not clickable
  • Cannot update customer info in the app
  • App is missing a lot of functionality
  • Cannot call a contact from the Contacts/Address Book Page
  • Cannot edit a Campaign from the app

Requested features

34 requests
  • Fix Android sign-in issues
  • Fix 'something went wrong' error
  • Fix forwarding and scheduled messages
  • Fix scrambled text messages
  • Fix photo library access
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  • Add landscape mode for iPad
  • Fix 'send' button on web version
  • Improve Chrome web version login stability
  • Add dark mode
  • Improve campaign building visibility in app
  • Add ability to call contact from within the app
  • Add ability to text contact from within the app
  • Improve contact search functionality
  • Add character count feature
  • Improve real-time message display
  • Add ability to call person from app
  • Make upgrades more user-friendly
  • Reduce steps for tasks
  • Improve app stability
  • Fix incoming/outgoing message issues
  • Restore issue reporting mechanism
  • Simplify login process
  • Fix glitchy update issues
  • Add scheduled messages section with date/time
  • Ensure compatibility with latest iOS updates
  • Improve notification delivery
  • Allow updating customer info in app
  • Add campaign management to app
  • Allow adding people to groups within the app
  • Allow changing groups within the app
  • Add option to star messages like on desktop
  • Add campaign creation directly from the app
  • Allow calling a contact from the Contacts/Address Book Page
  • Allow editing a Campaign from the app

Texty Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Skipio Messaging

No in-app purchases

None

Texty Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Skipio Messaging free?
Skipio Messaging is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Texty Pro free?
Texty Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Skipio Messaging or Texty Pro?
Skipio Messaging is rated higher. Skipio Messaging averages 3.8 out of 5 from 125 ratings, while Texty Pro averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Skipio Messaging or Texty Pro have ads?
Neither Skipio Messaging nor Texty Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Skipio Messaging or Texty Pro?
Skipio Messaging ships an update every 3 months, and Texty Pro every 5 weeks. Most recently, Skipio Messaging was updated on October 29, 2026 and Texty Pro on October 26, 2026.

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