Skipio Messaging vs LoopSpark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Lead conversion texting
- Customer retention texting
- Business communication
- SMS marketing
- Prospect engagement
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Skipio is the ultimate lead conversion and customer retention texting solution for your business.
LoopSpark
Manage client communications, tasks, and team collaboration on the go. This app provides tools for calling, SMS, task organization, and client profile access, specifically designed for fitness businesses.
- Client communication (calls & SMS)
- Task management and organization
- Client profile access
- Team collaboration tools
- Business growth features
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Respond to communications, manage your tasks, and stay connected to your clients without staying connected to a desktop computer. Keep the conversation moving - call and SMS clients and prospects, wherever you are. Stay on top of your team - ensure tasks are being completed, and tasks assigned to you are organized. Be prepared for client conversations - access your client profiles on the go. LoopSpark is a full suite of client communication, team collaboration, and reporting tools for gyms and fitness studios. Save time, nurture and celebrate clients, win-back lost clients, and grow your business.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Skipio Messaging at 3.8 against LoopSpark's 3.0. Skipio Messaging also leads on ratings volume (125 vs 5) and review sentiment (59% vs 50%). On price, update cadence, 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.
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 5, 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 50% of LoopSpark's.
Skipio Messaging ships an update every 3 months, LoopSpark every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skipio Messaging | LoopSpark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (125 ratings) — better | 3.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 125 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Skipio, LLC | John Homyk |
Customer experience
Skipio Messaging
LoopSpark
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
LoopSpark
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Skipio Messaging
No in-app purchases
LoopSpark
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Skipio Messaging free?
Is LoopSpark free?
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