SlickText vs Community
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SlickText
This platform helps businesses build customer relationships through targeted, personalized text messages. It offers tools to grow your audience, automate messaging, manage customer support, and monitor engagement analytics.
- Audience growth tools
- Personalized mass texting
- Automated messaging workflows
- Shared inbox for customer support
- Engagement analytics
- Website popups and QR codes
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SlickText is the #1 rated SMS marketing service that helps you create valuable relationships with your audience through targeted, personalized text messages. Our innovative platform powers the messaging for more than 15,000 brands across every industry, from early startups to thriving enterprises. Whether you’re new to SMS or ready to elevate your performance, our customer-obsessed team is here to guide you every step of the way. - Grow your audience fast with built-in marketing tools like website popups, QR codes, tap-to-join links, and keywords. - Send personalized, mass texts that make every person feel like one in a million. - Automate your messaging and eliminate manual tasks with custom Workflows. - Build a reputation for five-star customer support with a fully featured shared Inbox. - Monitor critical analytics on subscriber engagement, resolution times, Workflow performance, and more.
Community
This app enables leaders to build direct relationships and engage in one-on-one conversations with their members at scale via text messaging. It facilitates trusted marketing and communication channels, driving member actions, sales, and revenue.
- Direct member communication
- One-on-one conversations
- Text messaging at scale
- Trusted marketing channel
- Drive member actions
- Convert to sales and revenue
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Community powers direct relationships and one-on-one conversations between Leaders and their Members through text messaging at scale. Launched in 2019 and headquartered in Santa Monica, CA, Community is breaking new ground in trusted marketing and communications channels by connecting Leaders - global pop culture stars, local community organizers, small business owners, media companies, and brands - to their Members to drive conversations that convert into actions, sales, revenue and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SlickText at 4.4 against Community's 3.2. SlickText also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Community's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, review sentiment, 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.
SlickText holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Community has 140 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 28% of SlickText's written reviews are positive against 29% of Community's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SlickText ships an update every 6 months, Community every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SlickText | Community |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) — better | 3.2 (140 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 27.8% of reviews | 28.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 140 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Matthew Baglia | Community.com, Inc. |
Customer experience
SlickText
Community
Bugs and requests
SlickText
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Community
Reported bugs
32 issues- Email or password incorrect
- Login issues
- Cannot copy and paste
- Support emails unresponsive
- Cannot cancel subscription
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- Video and photo features are bad
- New update removed key feature
- Cannot send messages to specific communities together
- Filter removes all recipients
- App Store not allowing update
- App requires iOS 16 or higher
- Multiple phones cannot use app
- App won't load
- Crashes constantly
- Cannot copy paste responses or links
- Software has so many bugs
- App is unstable
- Notifications don't show randomly
- Messages disappear then show up again
- Low quality video
- App won't even load
- Billed twice after cancellation
- Hides phone numbers collected
- Doesn't show collected numbers
- Limited to 1000 recipients per month
- Help email rejected
- Delayed messages
- App crashes often
- Bugs continue to be an issue
- Forgot password issues
- Reset password email never sent
- No answer from support emails
Requested features
8 requests- Dark Mode
- Notifications for new texts
- See names of birthday celebrants
- Push notifications
- Option to choose message notifications
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- Online ability to manage account members
- Text from Apple Watches
- Make phone numbers optional
In-app purchases
SlickText
No in-app purchases
Community
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is SlickText free?
Is Community free?
Which has better reviews, SlickText or Community?
Do SlickText or Community have ads?
Which is updated more often, SlickText or Community?
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