Comparison

Redtail Speak vs AE Summit

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

Head to head
About

Redtail Speak

This app provides a secure and compliant platform for financial advisors to text message clients and collaborate with staff. It offers real-time communication, automatic archiving, and integration with CRM systems for enhanced client relationships and team efficiency.

Highlights
  • Compliant client texting
  • Real-time staff collaboration
  • Searchable message archiving
  • Redtail CRM integration
  • Customizable client invites
  • Out of office auto-replies
  • Message templates
Features
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Redtail Speak offers a compliant way for you to text message your clients and collaborate with your staff in real-time. With texting now an everyday part of every generation’s lives, incorporating a texting solution into your practice as a financial advisor allows you to solidify your client relationships through more effective engagement and improved communications. Redtail Speak is available as a standalone texting/chat solution, while offering integration with Redtail CRM for those who subscribe to both solutions. Using Speak, every text conversation is fully searchable and automatically archived, recorded daily, and sharable with email surveillance providers, offering you a safe, compliance-approved way to communicate with your clients. Speak also empowers your team to communicate directly with each other by providing team members with access to the same communication threads, which helps to eliminate bottlenecks. We believe Speak will help you overcome many of the biggest challenges advisors face regarding client communication while also freeing up your valuable time for other important client service activities. Some of the features of Redtail Speak include: • its functionality as both a texting solution between advisors and their clients as well as a collaborative communication platform for advisors and staff • its ability to provide secure texting to clients • everything that is sent through Speak is automatically archived—everything is searchable. Institution-level searching is also available. • the capability to send and receive attachments—images, Office files, etc. View images inline, with no need to download. • integration with Redtail CRM for Redtail subscribers. For those users, your Redtail CRM contacts can be automatically synced to your Speak account and your chat history with Redtail contacts will be available inside their contact record in the CRM. • it allows you to customize your texting Invite Message to your clients. You can set that message as the default for all your team or allow them to craft their own Invite Messages. • unlimited channels for group team chats and unlimited private direct messaging for one-on-one conversations with other team members • an Out of Office option. You can set this up to automatically send a reply if a client messages you while you are unavailable. You can also set the date/time when this Out of Office response clears. • full emoji support • the ability to view messages you’ve scheduled for a later date and/or time • the ability to include photographs you take as a part of your text or chat messages, if you allow camera access • the ability to use Message Templates you’ve created in order that you might streamline creation/delivery of commonly sent messages of a similar nature About Redtail Technology: Founded in 2003, Redtail Technology is a leading provider of web-based Client Relationship Management (CRM), compliant text messaging solutions (Redtail Speak), paperless office, and email archiving solutions in the financial services industry. The company is dedicated to helping advisors efficiently grow their firms by providing them with the core technologies that drive their day-to-day operations, offering low cost and easy to implement applications and integrating with many of the industry's most widely used applications. As a pioneer in the financial technology industry, Redtail is committed to providing advisors exceptional customer service and strives to contribute in meaningful ways to its local communities in California, Arizona, and Georgia. For more information, visit www.redtailtechnology.com.

About

AE Summit

Features
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Make the most of this time to grow, collaborate and network on our Summit trips! Enhance your time onsite by downloading the AE Summit app to stay connected during our trip. This is the official app that will allow you to view the Advisor Summit and CEO Summit information you will need on each trip. When you download the app, you gain access to your personalized agenda where you can see your selected activities and additional details. Important announcements to keep you up to date. Networking opportunities with other advisors and AE team members, as well as the ability to communicate directly with event staff. All the exciting experiences on the activity feed. The ability to view and save event documents and photos. Pertinent event information. Real-time updates from the event staff.

Screenshots

Redtail Speak4 screens
AE Summit2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: AE Summit at none against Redtail Speak's shown. Redtail Speak's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 9 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Redtail Speak ships an update every 3 months, AE Summit every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Redtail Speak versus AE Summit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRedtail SpeakAE Summit
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (18 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews7.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 9 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.4 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB4 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperRedtail Technology, Inc.Galactic Performance Solutions, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Redtail Speak

No in-app purchases

None

AE Summit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Redtail Speak free?
Redtail Speak is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AE Summit free?
AE Summit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Redtail Speak or AE Summit have ads?
Redtail Speak shows ads; AE Summit does not.
Which is updated more often, Redtail Speak or AE Summit?
Redtail Speak ships an update every 3 months, and AE Summit every 9 months. Most recently, Redtail Speak was updated on June 4, 2026 and AE Summit on September 11, 2026.

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