FollowUp App vs MessageDesk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FollowUp App
This app enables businesses to communicate with customers via SMS text messaging, confirming appointments, marketing offers, and generating reviews. It helps save time and resources compared to traditional phone calls and emails.
- Send SMS messages to customers
- Confirm appointments
- Market special offers
- Generate customer reviews
- Text-enable existing business number
- Save time and resources
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98% of texts are opened and 89% of your customer prefer them to phone calls and emails. SMS text messaging is the best way for a business to both reach out to customers and for customers to reach a business. We make it easy, including the ability to text enable your current business phone number. Start connecting with customers today. Start sending text messages to your epoxy customers in seconds, use text & SMS to: Confirm appointments. Market special offers. Connect with customers searching on Google. Convert leads into customers. Save time and resources Still making phone calls to confirm estimates or reach out to new customers? Not only is this process time consuming it’s ineffective and inefficient. Using SMS you and your customers can quickly exchange messages without having to wait for a time when both parties are free. Many customers quickly see upwards of 50% time savings per staff member when using text vs the phone. Generate customer reviews More Reviews = More Customers -- Raise your Google rankings and improve your SEO by automatically generating more positive customer reviews. Fully automated or manual, cross-post great reviews to social media and your website automatically.
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 rating: FollowUp App at 5.0 against MessageDesk's 3.3. FollowUp App also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). MessageDesk's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (20 vs 5). 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.
FollowUp App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of FollowUp App's written reviews are positive against 80% of MessageDesk's.
FollowUp App ships an update every 2 months, MessageDesk every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | FollowUp App | MessageDesk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 3.3 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | 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 | 16.6 | 13.0.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 342 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Gomez | Alderwood Labs Inc. |
Customer experience
FollowUp App
MessageDesk
In-app purchases
FollowUp App
No in-app purchases
MessageDesk
No in-app purchases









