Comparison

Texty Pro vs TextBox.app

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

TextBox.app

This app allows existing customers to manage business text communications using their company's existing phone number. Read and reply to customer messages directly from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Send and receive text messages
  • Use existing business phone number
  • Mobile access for existing customers
  • Manage customer communications
  • Log in with account credentials
Features
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This is the new TextBox.app 2.0 version of TextBox for mobile. It works only for EXISTING TextBox customers. TextBox empowers businesses to communicate with customers the way customers prefer -through text using the business's existing telephone number. Using your TextBox account credentials, log in on your phone to read and reply to messages being sent to your TextBox activated landline VoIP or toll-free telephone number.

Screenshots

Texty Pro4 screens
TextBox.app4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TextBox.app at 100% against Texty Pro's 40%. TextBox.app also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Texty Pro's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Texty Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Texty Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of TextBox.app's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Texty Pro versus TextBox.app: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTexty ProTextBox.app
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXEDIA NETWORKS, INC.VOSS CODING, LLC

Customer experience

Texty Pro

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%

TextBox.app

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Texty Pro

No in-app purchases

None

TextBox.app

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Texty Pro free?
Texty Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TextBox.app free?
TextBox.app is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Texty Pro or TextBox.app?
Texty Pro is rated higher. Texty Pro averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while TextBox.app averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Texty Pro or TextBox.app have ads?
Neither Texty Pro nor TextBox.app shows ads.

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