Textable vs Twilio Flex
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!
Twilio Flex
This app extends your contact center to mobile devices, enabling customer-facing teams to access shared customer data and AI features. It facilitates compliant omnichannel communications, reduces handle times, and improves visibility for quality management.
- Omnichannel communications
- Shared customer data view
- AI-powered productivity
- Reduced handle time
- Quality management tools
- Mobile interaction analysis
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Flex Mobile extends your Twilio Flex contact center to connect customers with your employees, wherever they are. Flex Mobile unlocks all Twilio Flex functionality to empower customer-facing teams with a shared view of customer data to reduce handle time, AI features to increase productivity, and compliant omnichannel communications on personal devices. Contact center interactions can now be routed to the right employee, wherever they are, to connect employees in the field, in-store, or at local branches to reduce transfer rates and improve visibility by analyzing interactions over mobile devices. Supervisors can use this enhanced visibility to improve quality management on mobile communications and ensure every customer interaction is delivering value. Flex Mobile requires an existing Twilio Flex account.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Twilio Flex at 5.0 against Textable's 3.1. Textable's advantage is review sentiment (42% vs 0%) and ratings volume (30 vs 7). 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.
Twilio Flex holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 42% of Textable's written reviews are positive against 0% of Twilio Flex's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Textable ships an update every 5 months, Twilio Flex every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and August 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Textable | Twilio Flex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Textable LLC | Twilio, Inc. |
Customer experience
Textable
Twilio Flex
In-app purchases
Textable
No in-app purchases
Twilio Flex
No in-app purchases








