Trillian vs Cable Messenger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trillian
This secure messaging platform offers instant communication for businesses, healthcare organizations, and individuals. It modernizes employee communication, provides HIPAA-compliant messaging for healthcare, and allows free, private communication for personal use.
- Secure business instant messaging
- HIPAA-compliant healthcare communication
- Free individual messaging
- Modern employee communication
- Privacy-focused personal chat
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Trillian is both a free instant messenger for individuals and a powerful business and clinical communication platform used by companies and healthcare systems of all sizes. Here's how we can help you: • FOR BUSINESSES: Does your business still rely on texting or cumbersome email chains? Let Trillian's modern and secure business instant messaging modernize employee communication without compromising on security or control. • FOR HEALTHCARE: Your healthcare organization needs secure instant messaging, and Trillian's HIPAA-compliant secure messaging platform has you covered. We help teams of all sizes improve clinical communication without breaking the bank. • FOR INDIVIDUALS: Stay in touch with family and friends without compromising your privacy. Your unique Trillian username can be used to send unlimited messages free of charge over your existing data plan and/or WiFi. Whether you're looking to empower secure employee instant messaging or just to keep in touch with family and friends, Trillian can help. Thanks for checking us out! Terms of Use: https://trillian.im/legal/customer-agreement/
Cable Messenger
Facilitates private and efficient team communication by masking phone numbers and accounts. Enables one-click contact notifications and multi-channel communication for urgent messages.
- Privacy protection for phone numbers and accounts
- One-click contact notification
- Efficient multi-channel communication
- No personal information exchange
- Teamwork collaboration mode
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Cable Messenger focusing on creating a new way of teamwork. The new contact and communication method not only realizes the privacy protection of the mobile phone numbers of both parties and the accounts of multiple communication platforms, but also realizes an efficient and high-delivery work communication and collaboration mode under privacy protection. [One-click notification of contacts] -No need for the mobile phone number of the other party, without any contact method, one-touch notification of contacts. [Notice efficient delivery] -You can call each other and even emergency contacts through multiple communication channels to achieve efficient delivery of notifications. 【privacy protection】 -The two parties do not exchange mobile phones without any personal information, protecting privacy in all aspects.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cable Messenger at none against Trillian's 4. Cable Messenger also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (83% vs 57%). Trillian's advantage is ratings volume (574 vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Trillian sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Cable Messenger asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cable Messenger holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trillian has 574 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Trillian's written reviews are positive against 83% of Cable Messenger's.
Trillian ships an update every 10 days, Cable Messenger every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trillian | Cable Messenger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (574 ratings) | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.3% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 574 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 230 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cerulean Studios, LLC | 傲创科技 |
Customer experience
Trillian
Cable Messenger
In-app purchases
Trillian
- Trillian Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
- Trillian Pro - Yearly$47.991 Year
- Trillian Pro - One Month$4.99
- Trillian Pro - One Year$47.90
Cable Messenger
No in-app purchases








