Skipio Messaging vs Grow by PushPress
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.
Grow by PushPress
This app streamlines business growth by automating lead nurturing and member retention. It integrates your website, CRM, and Core account to manage communications, track conversions, and organize tasks. Features include automated workflows, conversion tracking, and centralized messaging.
- Automated lead nurturing workflows
- Member retention automation
- Website and CRM integration
- Centralized communication management (SMS, email, social)
- Conversion data tracking
- Task delegation and reminders
- SEO-optimized website creation
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Grow is the full-stack website and CRM solution that will grow your business. Save time by automating your lead nurture and member retention process with a seamless integration between your website, CRM, and Core account. Automatically add leads to workflows to convert to customers. Track where leads are in the funnel to stay organized and know who to follow up with. Track conversion data to see what is working for your business so you can make adjustments as needed. Manage conversations for SMS, Facebook, email, Instagram, GMB all in one place. Set reminders/create tasks to support delegating work to your coaches/associates Grow accounts come with a website that has been built to maximize SEO performance and speed. Create email templates to send out your to the desired audiences for things like newsletters and event invitations. Create surveys to gather data surrounding client satisfaction, or get input on ways to improve your business. Actions that happen in your Core account will push updates to your Grow account to keep things accurate in both platforms.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Grow by PushPress at 4.8 against Skipio Messaging's 3.8. Grow by PushPress also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). Skipio Messaging's advantage is ratings volume (125 vs 9). 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.
Grow by PushPress holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skipio Messaging has 125 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Skipio Messaging ships an update every 3 months, Grow by PushPress every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skipio Messaging | Grow by PushPress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (125 ratings) | 4.8 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 125 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 340 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Skipio, LLC | PushPress, Inc. |
Customer experience
Skipio Messaging
Grow by PushPress
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
Grow by PushPress
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Skipio Messaging
No in-app purchases
Grow by PushPress
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Skipio Messaging free?
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