Comparison

Text vs Kontact

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

Head to head
About

Text

This app allows existing Text-Em-All customers to manage mass text messaging and automated calling services on the go. Receive instant notifications for replies and direct messages, craft responses remotely, and manage conversations efficiently. It's designed for sending important informational and emergency alerts, not marketing or political messages.

Highlights
  • Instant notification of replies and direct messages
  • Craft and send responses remotely
  • Manage and mark conversations as done
  • Switch between multiple text numbers
  • Manage contact opt-out status
Features
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This app is for Text-Em-All customers with an existing account. Text-Em-All is the leading provider of mass text messaging and automated calling services, serving 16,000+ organizations since 2005. The platform delivers personalized messages fast, whether they’re going to five people or 50,000. Organizations use Text-Em-All to send appointment reminders, emergency alerts, shift notifications, promotional campaigns, severe weather updates, payment reminders, church communications, and more. Today, the app supports two-way conversations. Use it to stay connected with your contacts when you’re away from your desk: • Get notified: Instantly see when a contact replies to a broadcast or sends you a direct message. • Reply anywhere: Respond on the go without waiting to get back to your computer. • Manage conversations: Mark threads done as you go and keep track of what still needs attention. • View multiple numbers: Accounts with more than one text number can switch between them to manage messages. • Manage opt-outs: Update a contact’s opt-out status directly from the app. Responsible Use Policy Mass texting and calling have the power to reach people when it counts. We built Text-Em-All to deliver the messages that matter, and we take that seriously. We respectfully decline to work with organizations whose use cases conflict with our values, including unsolicited contact and political solicitation. If you enjoy using Text-Em-All, please leave us a review. If something’s not working or you have an idea to share, reach out at support@text-em-all.com.

About

Kontact

Organize your connections with advanced features like sorting by date added and custom tagging. Send personalized mass texts to groups using saved templates. Streamline communication and never lose track of important contacts again.

Highlights
  • Sort contacts by date added
  • Apply custom tags to contacts
  • Send personalized mass texts
  • Create and use message templates
  • Individual message sending option
  • Enhanced contact organization
Features
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Text everyone at once. Make it feel one-on-one. Kontact turns your iPhone contacts into something you can actually work with: tag people into groups, save the messages you send over and over, and fire them off as private texts that fill in each person's name automatically. MASS TEXT WITHOUT THE GROUP CHAT Pick a group, pick a message, send. Kontact delivers a separate text to each person — nobody sees anyone else's number, and nobody gets dragged into a 30-person thread. Or switch to Group mode when you do want everyone talking in one place. Before anything sends, you get a preview of the exact text every single person will receive, and you can edit any one of them by hand. TAG YOUR CONTACTS Create any tag you want and drop people into it. You choose the names, you choose who goes in. A tag can hold other tags, so a broad one can contain narrower ones. • City: Miami, NYC, LA • Clients: Hot Leads, Cold Leads, Existing • Family: Immediate, Extended Filter by one tag or several at once, matching all of them or any of them. Then text the whole filtered group in two taps. SAVE YOUR MESSAGES AS TEMPLATES Stop retyping the same thing. Save any message as a template, sort templates into categories, and reorder them however you like. Drop in {First Name}, {Last Name}, or {Company} and Kontact fills in the right details for each recipient, so a message you wrote once still reads like you wrote it for them. Templates people actually use: class reminders from trainers, listing updates from realtors, a sales pitch you can tweak per audience, event invites, follow-ups after a networking night, opening lines you know work. FIND THE PERSON YOU JUST MET Sort by date added and the newest contacts come first. You met them Thursday, you forgot the spelling of their name, and now you don't need it. BUILT ON YOUR REAL CONTACTS Kontact reads and writes your actual iPhone address book — no separate copy to maintain, no import step. Add a contact and it lands in Contacts. From any contact you can text, call, FaceTime, email, WhatsApp, or open their Instagram. Your tags and templates sync to your account, so switching phones doesn't lose your work. ALSO IN HERE • Light, dark, and automatic themes • Full VoiceOver support • Instant search and A–Z fast scroll • 21 short how-to videos built into the app • Free — no subscription, no per-message fees QUESTIONS OR IDEAS? Email support@techsweet.io. We read everything and we ship fast.

Screenshots

Text4 screens
Kontact4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Kontact at 93% against Text's 15%. Kontact also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.8). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Kontact holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of Text's written reviews are positive against 93% of Kontact's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text ships an update every 5 months, Kontact every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Text versus Kontact: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextKontact
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (28 ratings)4.7 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.4% of reviews92.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings28 — better18
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperText-Em-AllTechSweet LLC

Customer experience

Text

All ratings27 ratings
Positive40.7%
Neutral3.7%
Negative55.6%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive15.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative84.6%

Kontact

All ratings17 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%

In-app purchases

None

Text

No in-app purchases

None

Kontact

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text free?
Text is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kontact free?
Kontact is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Text or Kontact?
Kontact is rated higher. Text averages 2.8 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while Kontact averages 4.7 from 18 ratings.
Do Text or Kontact have ads?
Neither Text nor Kontact shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text or Kontact?
Text ships an update every 5 months, and Kontact every 3 months. Most recently, Text was updated on October 24, 2026 and Kontact on October 24, 2026.

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