MessageDesk vs Hoursaurus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Hoursaurus
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Hoursaurus is the time tracking app designed specifically for therapists and mental health professionals. Built by a therapist's family member who understood the unique challenges of therapy billing, Hoursaurus makes tracking billable hours, evaluations, and cancellations effortless. Key Features: • Separate tracking for billable hours, evaluations, and cancellations • Flexible 15, 30, 45, and 60-minute time slots • Professional weekly summaries ready for billing submission • Set default hours for each weekday • Daily reminders to log your hours • All data stored locally on your device – complete privacy Perfect for private practice therapists, counselors, clinical psychologists, social workers, and any mental health professional who bills by the hour. Stop struggling with spreadsheets or generic time trackers. Hoursaurus speaks your language and respects your time. Simple. Professional. Private.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hoursaurus at none against MessageDesk's shown. MessageDesk's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0.0 vs 17.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | MessageDesk | Hoursaurus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (17 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alderwood Labs Inc. | Nikolai Nobadi |
In-app purchases
MessageDesk
No in-app purchases
Hoursaurus
No in-app purchases









