Skipio Messaging vs Essen Billing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skipio Messaging
This business communication tool streamlines lead conversion and customer retention through text messaging. It offers features for managing conversations, scheduling messages, and attaching media, aiming to save time and increase revenue.
- Lead conversion texting
- Customer retention messaging
- Schedule messages
- Attach photos
- Manage conversations
- Searchable contacts
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Skipio is the ultimate lead conversion and customer retention texting solution for your business.
Essen Billing
This app digitizes claim submissions for healthcare providers, integrating with a revenue cycle management platform. It allows for updating patient rosters, submitting claims, and tracking billing status to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Digitize claim submissions
- Integrates with RCM platform
- Access real-time codes
- Update patient rosters
- Track billing status
- User-friendly platform
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Essen Health Care’s internal billing capture app empowers providers in both the Nursing Home and Hospitalist divisions to streamline billing claims and enhance operational efficiency. This in-house solution digitizes claim submissions, integrating directly with our Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) platform, PARCS, to access real-time ICD and CPT codes. Providers can update patient rosters, submit claims, and track billing status, reducing the need for manual interventions and improving claim accuracy. Our flexible design enables new feature introductions as needs evolve, giving Essen Health Care greater control over the billing process. Whether you’re managing daily tasks or tracking long-term goals, our app provides a centralized, user-friendly platform to optimize billing across divisions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Skipio Messaging at 125 against Essen Billing's 5. Essen Billing's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and rating (4.0 vs 3.8). 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.
Essen Billing holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. 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.
Skipio Messaging ships an update every 3 months, Essen Billing monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skipio Messaging | Essen Billing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (125 ratings) | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 125 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Skipio, LLC | Essen Medical Associates, PC |
Customer experience
Skipio Messaging
Essen Billing
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
Essen Billing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Skipio Messaging
No in-app purchases
Essen Billing
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Skipio Messaging free?
Is Essen Billing free?
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