VentureTel SMS vs BLIQ Messaging
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VentureTel SMS
This app allows businesses to text customers using their existing phone service. It also provides end-users with voicemail access and phone feature management, including call forwarding and 'Find Me' options.
- Business texting capabilities
- Voicemail access
- Call forwarding management
- Find Me feature management
- Integration with VentureTel phone service
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Nearly 90% of consumers want to communicate with businesses via texting and VentureTel SMS enables businesses to do just that with your phone service from VentureTel. This app also enables end users to check voicemail and manage phone features like call forwarding, “Find Me” features, and more.
BLIQ Messaging
Communicate with customers through integrated messaging and phone calls using your company's main number. The platform offers a unified interface for team collaboration across text and WhatsApp, enhancing business marketing and communication efforts.
- Customer messaging and phone calls
- Team collaboration interface
- Integrated text and WhatsApp
- Unified communication platform
- Customer engagement features
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BLIQ is a powerful communication app enabling you to interact with your customers via messaging and/or phone calls using your main company phone number. BLIQ will allow your entire team to interact with your customers seamlessly as a team – with text and WhatsApp integrated into the same interface – to the larger success of your business marketing and communication needs. BLIQ contains dozens of customer engagement features that were previously not available at all, or not available in the context of business messaging. By seamlessly formulating them into the fabric of the platform, BLIQ has taken “user-friendly” to a whole new level.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BLIQ Messaging at fortnightly against VentureTel SMS's monthly. VentureTel SMS's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for VentureTel SMS against 5.0 for BLIQ Messaging. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
VentureTel SMS ships an update monthly, BLIQ Messaging fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VentureTel SMS | BLIQ Messaging |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tech Strategies, Inc. | BLIQ Messaging |
Customer experience
VentureTel SMS
BLIQ Messaging
In-app purchases
VentureTel SMS
No in-app purchases
BLIQ Messaging
No in-app purchases
Questions
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