Textable vs Sangoma Chat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Textable
Enable your business phone number to send and receive text and picture messages from multiple devices. Your customers can text your business number directly, and your team can manage conversations from any computer or device.
- Use business number for texting
- Send/receive texts and pictures
- Multi-device access
- Browser access on computers
- Multiple user support
- Customer texting convenience
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Is your business textable? Textable allows your business phone number to send and receive messages from multiple devices. • Use your business phone number to text instead of your personal number • Send and receive text and picture messages to/from any cell phone number in the continental US View your messages on multiple devices: • Use your account on multiple devices with one sign-in • Access your messages from any computer via your browser (Chrome/Firefox/Edge) • Multiple users can access the same number so you or your team can reply to any message Now your customers can communicate with you with the ease and convenience that they have when texting with friends and family. No need to download a separate messaging “app” to contact you - they can simply text your business number and get in touch. Supported SIP Providers: Twilio Flowroute VOIP.ms Bandwidth.com Telnyx Skyetel VoIP Innovations ...and many more!
Sangoma Chat
Communicate with colleagues via text and SMS, and integrate with other Sangoma business tools for video conferencing and voicemail. Requires a business phone system account from Sangoma Technologies.
- Text messaging with coworkers
- SMS messaging with external numbers
- Video conference integration
- Voicemail access
- Call log and favorite contacts
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Sangoma Chat lets you * Exchange text messages with your coworkers, and SMS messages with external phone numbers * Find your contacts and send a text or SMS message, or place a call to them using the Sangoma Talk app (formerly Sangoma Connect) * Create and join video conferences using the Sangoma Meet app * Change your Status and listen to your Voicemail messages, plus see your Call Log and Favorite contacts. Requirements: - iOS 13 - An account with Switchvox, FreePBX, or PBXact business phone system from Sangoma Technologies (your PBX). - The most recent version of your PBX. (Previous versions may support some of the features of the app.) - A valid SSL certificate on your PBX, signed by a trusted 3rd party certificate authority. Once you have the app on your iPhone, open the app and enter the fully qualified domain name (meaning the hostname, not the numeric IP address) of your PBX, your extension number, and your password, and click Sign in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Textable at 42% against Sangoma Chat's 17%. Textable also leads on rating (3.1 vs 2.9) and ratings volume (30 vs 10). Sangoma Chat's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Textable holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Textable's written reviews are positive against 17% of Sangoma Chat's.
Textable ships an update every 5 months, Sangoma Chat every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Textable | Sangoma Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (30 ratings) — better | 2.9 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Textable LLC | Sangoma Technologies |
Customer experience
Textable
Sangoma Chat
In-app purchases
Textable
No in-app purchases
Sangoma Chat
No in-app purchases









