Texty Pro vs MessageDesk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Texty Pro
Communicate with customers via SMS using your existing business landline or VoIP number. Collaborate with your team through a shared inbox, private notes, and dedicated channels. Send and receive multimedia messages, schedule texts, and use canned responses for efficiency.
- Use existing business phone number for SMS
- Shared inbox for team collaboration
- Private notes and conversation assignment
- Public channels for teams and projects
- Send/receive multimedia messages
- Schedule text messages
- Canned responses for quick replies
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Text your customers using your existing business landline or VoIP phone number, collaborate with staff—all in one place. When you send them a text, they'll see that it came from your business phone number. Talk to more customers in less time—without the busywork. Texty Pro is the preferred platform for conversational business SMS text messaging. Forget phone calls, emails or chat. Customers want what’s easy and that’s standard text messages. Texty Pro allows you to communicate faster to make more sales by allowing you to send and receive text messages on your current business landline/VoIP phone number from anywhere. Save over an hour of your day by texting instead of answering calls! COLLABORATIVE TEXTING WITH YOUR TEAM View all the text messages in one place from any iPhone or iPad with the shared inbox so you spend less time with busywork and more time supporting customers and team members. Reply to customers' SMS text message inquiries instantly, route texts to the right staff, and jump in on any current conversation to lend a hand. ADD CONTEXT WHERE YOU NEED IT Scattered notes are a thing of the past. Give context directly on the text thread by leaving private notes that only you and your team members can read and improve accountability by assigning a conversation to you or someone. STAY FOCUSED AND ORGANIZED WITH PRIVATE CHANNELS Bring productivity to your work by creating public channels for teams, projects, ideas and more to stay focused on the current agenda everywhere, as a group. DISCUSS IN PRIVATE WITH DIRECT MESSAGES When you need to have a private discussion, just send a direct message to an individual or group direct message. USE YOUR CURRENT BUSINESS PHONE NUMBER: No need to complicate things. Simply let all your customers know that your current business phone number is text enabled (both traditional landline & VoIP phone numbers are supported). Have more than 1 business number? Add all of your phone numbers in the same account and assign them to the relevant person or department. NO ADDITIONAL HARDWARE REQUIRED: All you need is your iPhone or iPad with internet connection. No porting, forwarding, virtual numbers, hardware or services are required from your telephone company. MULTIMEDIA: Want to send and receive picture messages with customers? Sure. Go right ahead! Send emojis, pictures, GIFs, videos, voice clips, PDFs, and vCards! TEXT ON YOUR COMPUTER: You can also text with customers right from your Safari web browser on any mac TEXT WITHOUT TYPING: With just a few clicks, effortlessly send your text message using personalized canned responses. TEXT AHEAD OF TIME: Save time and effort by planning and scheduling text messages in advance. [NOTE] • WORKS WITH TEXTY PRO WEB SERVICE: Already have Texty Pro service? Simply download and log in to securely text with customers from anywhere on your iPhone or iPad (using your device’s internet connection*). • Data charges may apply. Check with your provider for details.
MessageDesk
Integrate SMS messaging into your business phone lines, including VoIP and landlines. This app offers a shared team inbox and broadcast capabilities for efficient communication. Features like scheduled messages, autoresponders, and templates help streamline SMS workflows.
- Add SMS to business phone numbers
- Shared team SMS inbox
- Mass text broadcasts
- Scheduled text messages
- Keyword-based autoresponders
- Automation
- Pre-saved text message templates
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Add texting to any business phone number including VoIP and landlines. Use MessageDesk's shared team SMS inbox and mass text broadcasts to get the right message to the right people at the right time. Streamline your SMS communication and save time with scheduled text messages, keyword-based autoresponders, automation, and pre-saved text message templates.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MessageDesk at 80% against Texty Pro's 33%. MessageDesk also leads on rating (3.3 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (20 vs 2). Texty Pro's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
MessageDesk holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MessageDesk has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Texty Pro's written reviews are positive against 80% of MessageDesk's.
Texty Pro ships an update every 5 weeks, MessageDesk every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Texty Pro | MessageDesk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.3 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | XEDIA NETWORKS, INC. | Alderwood Labs Inc. |
Customer experience
Texty Pro
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In-app purchases
Texty Pro
No in-app purchases
MessageDesk
No in-app purchases
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