UPExperience vs SimplyConnect Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UPExperience
This business texting solution enables companies to communicate directly with customers via SMS, ensuring high open rates and real-time engagement. It facilitates instant notifications for responses, surveys, signatures, and payments, syncing across devices for seamless communication.
- TCPA Compliant Business Texting
- Real-time Customer Communication
- Instant Notifications
- Cross-device Syncing
- Automated Messaging
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UpdatePromise powers more than 20,000 businesses today and is now available for Mac OS. Consumers expect to be communicated with via SMS Text Messaging, UpdatePromise helps you meet that expectation through TCPA Compliant Business Texting solutions that have been proven by over 10 Million Consumer Connections. UpdatePromise communicates directly to your customers' cell phones without the need for them to install an app. And since more than 96% of text messages are opened within 90 seconds, you and your customers will be communicating in real time! Real time communications generate increased sales, higher customer satisfaction rates and Net Promoter Scores that build your brand and repeat customer base, further increasing your revenue and profits! Instant notifications tell you when a customer responds to a text message, gives a negative survey or completed an online electronic signature or payment. The UpdatePromise Mac OS app is synced across your desktop and other mobile devices in real time so you never miss a message, alert or instant notification. Automated Messaging (On Integrated Systems)
SimplyConnect Mobile
Enhance customer communication with a business texting platform. Send and receive SMS/MMS messages using existing or new U.S. phone numbers, with features like auto-responses, contact management, and global support.
- Text-enable current phone numbers
- Engage customers with promotions
- Set automated responses
- Monitor all business texts
- Manage contacts and schedule messages
- Support global messaging
- Ensure compliance with industry guidelines
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Better Engage Customers with Business Texting SimplyConnect provides nationwide text-enablement for any U.S.-based number through a user-friendly platform. With our SMS and MMS messaging, you can seamlessly send and receive messages via hybrid landline, toll-free and VoIP numbers in the U.S., Canada and many international destinations. Add customized greetings to your accounts to make them even more recognizable, then customize your messages with dynamic elements that recognize a variety of user preferences such as name, location, past conversations and more. Why SimplyConnect? SimplyConnect is a comprehensive cloud messaging solution that lets you send and receive SMS and MMS messages from your business phone numbers, including traditional landlines. Use existing business phone numbers, or obtain new numbers, to connect with customers opening new communication avenues that reinforces your brand. Reach customers in their preferred medium: TEXT! With a host of features, SimplyConnect is the newest communication weapon for business. Capabilities: • Text-Enable Current Numbers Use your existing business phone number to contact customers via SMS and MMS messages • Engage Customers Text promotions, track responses and ROI, and utilize customizable templates to make texts more personable • Set Auto-Responses Automatically respond to customers 24 hours a day with customized and suggested text responses • Monitor Messages Oversee all texts sent and received by your business from one account and receive email notification of unread messages • Manage Contacts and Schedule Messages Save customer contact information in a searchable database and schedule recurring messages • Support Global Messaging Enjoy seamless texting across multiple languages communicating with native speakers • Resolve Customer Issues Maintain records and history of customer interactions for issue resolution or new opportunities • Ensure Compliance Send text messages that adhere to CTIA, telecom industry organization that defines messaging Best Practices and guidelines How is SimplyConnect Implemented? Simple and fast. Use an existing number or procure a new number from NUSO. Sign into the app. Start sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages on your local business number or your toll-free number. SimplyConnect Use Cases Multiple Number Assignments • Support center managers can assign multiple text-enabled phone numbers to multiple users across different shifts to ensure that there are no gaps in coverage. • Text marketing campaigns across multiple regions and track performance by assigning different local numbers for each region. • Multiple agents can view or respond to activity on a single text thread from their business number. Message Blasts • Want to take a poll? A business can text customers en masse and set up an auto-response for those who reply. • Set up text distribution lists to send targeted messages to specific groups. Message Archiving • Businesses can search historical text archives for compliance and auditing. • Customer service teams can access text history to reference and resolve customer issues. Business Texting Facts: Texts Are More Engaging • 99% are opened by users • 95% of texts are read in less than 3 minutes • 45% of texts receive a response Texts Resolve Issues Faster than Phone Calls • Texting is 10x faster than calling • Average text response time is 90 seconds or less • Text messages are read in under 5 seconds, on average Texting is Preferred in the United States • 90% of consumers want to use texting to reach businesses • 50-65% of people prefer texts over calls
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: UPExperience at 3.7 against SimplyConnect Mobile's 2.0. UPExperience also leads on ratings volume (15 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.
UPExperience holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UPExperience has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | UPExperience | SimplyConnect Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (15 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Update Promise | NUSO Cloud |
Customer experience
UPExperience
SimplyConnect Mobile
In-app purchases
UPExperience
No in-app purchases
SimplyConnect Mobile
No in-app purchases
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