Comparison

Email & SMS Templates vs SA Group Text

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

Head to head
About

Email & SMS Templates

Quickly send pre-defined email and SMS messages from custom templates. Organize your templates into lists and send messages with just a few taps. Integrates with your address book for easy recipient selection.

Highlights
  • Create SMS and email templates
  • Quickly send messages
  • Organize templates into lists
  • Add recipients from address book
  • Backup and restore data with Dropbox
  • Designed for iPhone & iPad
Features
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SEND EMAILS AND SMS/TEXT MESSAGES QUICKLY FROM TEMPLATES YOU PRE-DEFINE • Integrates with your address book • Organize templates into lists • Saves you lots of time • Easy and intuitive • Looks great on both iPhone & iPad The Email and SMS Templates application allows you to quickly send email and SMS/text messages from templates that you pre-define. Create your templates once and send the messages over and over again with ease. FEATURES: • Create SMS and email templates • Quickly send messages with only a few taps • Designed for both iPhone & iPad • Organize your templates into lists • Modify existing templates and lists with ease • Create as many lists and templates as you want • Add recipients from your phone address book • Backup & Restore your data with Dropbox • Messages are sent from within the app Do you send the same emails or SMS/text messages often, but feel that this is not easy because of the time it takes to re-type the message every time? This app will help you with this as it allows you to create your own message templates that you can reuse every time you need to send a message. This app is ideal for individuals that send the same type of email & SMS/text messages regularly, such as sales people, persons that arrange meetings and events on a regular basis etc. It is also very useful if you often send out SMS messages like “I’m running a little bit late but will be there in 10 minutes”. You can now also backup and restore template data to your Dropbox account (requires that you have an account registered with Dropbox.com). This allows you to make safety backups of your templates. You can also use backup & restore to transfer data between devices that you own. PLEASE NOTE: • The SMS sending feature is only available on the iPhone. • You can only write text based email templates. HTML templates are not supported.

About

SA Group Text

Easily send personalized group text messages by importing recipient lists and messages from Excel spreadsheets. This app allows for dynamic message content based on recipient data, streamlining communication for businesses and organizations.

Highlights
  • Import group SMS from Excel
  • Personalize messages with tags
  • Create and manage contact groups
  • Send unsent messages
  • Preview messages before sending
  • Split large messages
  • Supports online SMS providers
Features
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SA Group Text is the most efficient way to send group messages. You can add recipient names and phone numbers in an Excel file. You can enter static or personalized text messages right in the Excel spreadsheet. For example, if you enter “Hi {first name}, ...” in a message, the app will take the first name of the recipients and personalize the message, generating text such as “Hi David, …” , “Hi Michael, …”… You can use an Excel spreadsheet again without editing the spreadsheet on your computer. You can just pick an Excel file, type in a quick message and send it. It is similar to sending a message to a group. SA Group Text is also an easy way to send text messages to the contacts on your iPhone. Just pick groups or individual contacts, type in a static or personalized message and send it. Who uses SA Group Text ? 1) Small Businesses 2) Religious Groups 3) Retail 4) Nightlife - Bars & Nightclubs 5) Restaurants 6) Banks/Financial Institutions 7) Insurance Companies 8) Event Marketers (With hundreds (or even thousands) of people attending your events) 9) Traditional Media 10) Schools 11) Social Groups 12) Real Estate With SA Group Text you can : 1. Import group SMS from an Excel file via USB/WiFi/Email. 2. Create your own groups in an Excel spreadsheet and send messages to them. 3. Send unsent messages . If the app is terminated while sending group SMS, the sending task will be continued next time you launch the app.. 4. Insert tags ({nickname},{firstname},{lastname},{nickname},{company} etc) in your text message in order to create personalized messages. When you use this function, each message has a personal touch. For example: Dear {firstname}, Welcome to our dinner party. 5. Use MS Excel 2003 / 2007 / 2010 , OpenOffice.org , Apple Numbers or any other Excel-compatible applications to create your group text messages. Be sure to save as an Excel 97-2003 Workbook. 6. Export an Excel template , and use it to create your own Excel file. 7. Send SMS to as many recipients as you need within your Excel file 8. Limit the number of recipients per message. The app will split a large message into multiple separate messages. 9. Create a formatted Excel file easily. The file can contain only two columns : Mobile and Message. You can find more example spreadsheets on the app’s website. 10. Create flexible group SMS in your spreadsheet. For example “{family} Family – Practice Tomorrow at 5pm for little {kidname}!” becomes “David Family – Practice Tomorrow at 5pm for little Johnny!”. The names change over and over again. 11. Create contact groups, you can create in-app groups for Exchange contacts. 12. Choose contacts organized in groups, companies, job titles and cities. 13. Preview messages before sending them out. 14. Skip duplicated phone numbers and messages. 15. The lite version has ads. 16. Send online sms, supporting Twilio and Nexmo. 17. Find a way to send messages without user interaction, please contact to samyuservice@gmail.com for details. IMPORTANT NOTE : Please check the setting of "Group Messaging" on the iPhone settings. If the option is available, set it to OFF (yes OFF) to be able to send to large groups. If it's on, the iPhone will try to send MMS instead of SMS and will fail to send to large groups. More detail and up-to-date help guides are available in samapp.com.

Screenshots

Email & SMS Templates4 screens
SA Group Text4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Email & SMS Templates at 3.5 against SA Group Text's 2.7. Email & SMS Templates also leads on price ($1.99 vs $2.99). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Email & SMS Templates costs $1.99 and SA Group Text $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Email & SMS Templates holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Email & SMS Templates's written reviews are positive against 58% of SA Group Text's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Email & SMS Templates ships an update every 3 months, SA Group Text every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Email & SMS Templates versus SA Group Text: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmail & SMS TemplatesSA Group Text
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating3.5 (8 ratings) — better2.7 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews61.0% of reviews — better58.0% of reviews
Number of ratings811 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPocket MindedShenZhen SamApp Technology Development Co., Ltd

Customer experience

Email & SMS Templates

All ratings8 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive61.0%
Neutral9.8%
Negative29.3%

SA Group Text

All ratings11 ratings
Positive27.3%
Neutral27.3%
Negative45.5%
Written reviews100 reviews
Positive58.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative32.0%

Bugs and requests

Email & SMS Templates

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

SA Group Text

Reported bugs

50 issues
  • App doesn't work
  • Cannot edit contact groups
  • App down/not working
  • Cannot upload excel files
  • App stuck on black screen
Show 45 more
  • Not sending to Android users
  • Requires iMessage
  • Cannot load contacts from Excel
  • Decimal point rounding issue
  • Site rarely reachable
  • Messages fail to send
  • No background operation
  • Cannot upload documents via WiFi
  • Requires .xls format
  • No updates, app crashes
  • Duplicate messages
  • Looks bad/zoomed on larger phones
  • 90 messages remain in queue on iOS 7
  • Not sending to Android users
  • App crashes when updating contacts
  • Too expensive for poor implementation
  • Messages not sending after updates
  • App crashes
  • Not working on iOS 7
  • Bad since iOS 7
  • Potential security risk/hack
  • Cannot send photos
  • Server not responding
  • Bugs after upgrade
  • Cannot select/erase unwanted contacts
  • Lag when switching to iPhone SMS mode
  • Not sending to non-iPhones
  • App does not work on i5S
  • Does nothing needed on iPhone 5
  • No export functionality
  • Cannot send texts unless recipients are iPhones
  • Does not support older iOS versions
  • Keep lists inside the app
  • Import group into local database
  • Allow sending to all contacts with one click
  • Improve dark mode support
  • App crashes anytime I want to update contacts
  • Cannot upload excel docs from email
  • Paid app charged full price with discount
  • App is useless
  • Last update not working
  • Cannot see sent messages
  • Messages not sending
  • Group SMS is difficult
  • Program gives errors with >100 people

Requested features

21 requests
  • Integration with Launch Center Pro/widget
  • Touch ID in iOS 11
  • Automatic sending with pre-defined pauses
  • Automatic sending without manual confirmation
  • Update for iPhone 6 Plus compatibility
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  • Ability to send photos
  • Blacklist feature
  • Automate sending with one click
  • Add 'search' fields to filter recipients
  • Manage contacts section
  • Automatic send when tag is inserted
  • Automate sending
  • Send to all numbers with one click
  • Add a tutorial
  • Automatic sending option
  • Export SMS messages to computer
  • Support for older iOS versions
  • Keep lists inside the app
  • Import group into local database
  • Allow sending to all contacts with one click
  • Improve dark mode support

In-app purchases

None

Email & SMS Templates

No in-app purchases

None

SA Group Text

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Email & SMS Templates free?
Email & SMS Templates costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SA Group Text free?
SA Group Text costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Email & SMS Templates or SA Group Text?
Email & SMS Templates is rated higher. Email & SMS Templates averages 3.5 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while SA Group Text averages 2.7 from 11 ratings.
Do Email & SMS Templates or SA Group Text have ads?
Neither Email & SMS Templates nor SA Group Text shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Email & SMS Templates or SA Group Text?
Email & SMS Templates ships an update every 3 months, and SA Group Text every 2 months. Most recently, Email & SMS Templates was updated on November 1, 2026 and SA Group Text on November 1, 2026.

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