Kenect vs Business Messenger Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kenect
Connect with customers through text messaging to boost leads, gather online reviews, and process payments. Initiate video calls directly from text conversations.
- Customer texting
- Lead generation
- Online review generation
- Payment capture
- Video chat via text
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Engage with your customers where they are - texting on their phone. Double your leads, generate online reviews, capture payments and start video chat conversations all via text message.
Business Messenger Pro
Communicate with customers via a dedicated number, convert website visitors into leads, and encourage positive reviews. This tool helps businesses get paid and supercharge their growth.
- Dedicated business number for texting
- Convert website visitors to customers
- Track new sales leads
- Generate customer reviews
- Facilitate payments
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Text customers from a dedicated number! Convert website visitors into customers! Track new sales leads! Turn customers into amazing reviews! Get paid! Supercharge your business with Business Messenger Pro.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Business Messenger Pro at 5.0 against Kenect's 3.9. Kenect's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (69 vs 1). 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.
Business Messenger Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kenect has 69 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Kenect ships an update fortnightly, Business Messenger Pro every 7 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Kenect | Business Messenger Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (69 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 69 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kenect, LLC | Chekkit |
Customer experience
Kenect
Business Messenger Pro
In-app purchases
Kenect
No in-app purchases
Business Messenger Pro
No in-app purchases
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