Comparison

Contacts Grouping Lite vs GroupSpeak

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

Head to head
About

Contacts Grouping Lite

Organize your contacts into custom groups with this intuitive management tool. Easily create, edit, and delete groups, and manage individual contacts. Send emails or texts to entire groups, and quickly search your address book.

Highlights
  • Automatic group creation by company name
  • Custom group creation, editing, and deletion
  • Individual contact management
  • Contact search functionality
  • Send emails to group members
  • Send SMS to group members (iPhone only)
  • Customizable group sorting and coloring
Features
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Contacts Grouping is the most popular contact management software with easy-to-use. Features 1. Contact could be gathered in the groups automatically by company names. 2. Groups could be created, edited, or deleted freely. 3. You could also create, delete, and edit a single contact. 4. It support to search for contacts 5. And send email to all group members 6. Fantastic respond speed 7. Support to send sms/text to all group members(just for iPhone) 8.You could change the group's sort 9.You could change the group's color Mark: English,Japanese,Chinese versions are available. By downloading or using this app, you agree to Apple's standard Terms of Use. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

GroupSpeak

Effortlessly send personalized text messages to multiple contacts simultaneously. Organize contacts into groups, utilize message templates for recurring texts, and sync across devices. Import contacts and groups easily from CSV files.

Highlights
  • Create and manage contact groups
  • Send personalized mass texts
  • Automatic group messaging
  • Message templates
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • CSV contact import
Features
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Text your whole group in one tap. GroupSpeak sends the same message to many people at once, and each person gets it as a private 1-to-1 text addressed to them by name. It's for anyone who texts the same people again and again: coaches and team parents, church groups and choirs, clubs, teachers, small businesses, landlords, and event hosts. SEND IT YOUR WAY • One by one: each contact gets a private text, so nobody sees the other recipients and there are no reply-all chains • Automatically: send to the whole list hands-free with the free GroupSpeak shortcut • As a group: start one group conversation with everyone PERSONALIZE EVERY MESSAGE Add #[FirstName], #[LastName] or #[Company] and GroupSpeak fills in each person's details. "Hi Ava!", "Hi Liam!", "Hi Emma!", all from one message. ORGANIZE CONTACTS INTO GROUPS • Build groups from your phone contacts in seconds • Import contacts or whole groups from a CSV file • Choose which number to use when a contact has several • Search, edit and select or unselect everyone with one tap SAVE TIME WITH TEMPLATES Save the messages you send often, such as practice reminders, meeting updates, flash sales and holiday greetings, and reuse them in one tap. MORE • Attach a photo to your message • Email a group as well as texting it • Your groups sync across your iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud • Messages go through your own Messages app, using your own number and plan GROUPSPEAK PRO GroupSpeak is free to download. Upgrade to Pro with a monthly or yearly subscription, or with a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel them in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://lazyboard.app/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://lazyboard.app/our-apps-privacy-policy

Screenshots

Contacts Grouping Lite4 screens
GroupSpeak4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: GroupSpeak at none against Contacts Grouping Lite's shown. Contacts Grouping Lite's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (69 vs 17). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Contacts Grouping Lite sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and GroupSpeak sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Contacts Grouping Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 69 and 17 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of Contacts Grouping Lite's written reviews are positive against 50% of GroupSpeak's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contacts Grouping Lite ships an update every 2 months, GroupSpeak every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Contacts Grouping Lite versus GroupSpeak: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContacts Grouping LiteGroupSpeak
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (69 ratings) — better4.2 (17 ratings)
Positive reviews45.6% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings69 — better17
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEJingElsayed Hussein

Customer experience

Contacts Grouping Lite

All ratings69 ratings
Positive92.8%
Neutral1.4%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive45.6%
Neutral12.8%
Negative41.6%

GroupSpeak

All ratings16 ratings
Positive68.8%
Neutral18.8%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Contacts Grouping Lite

Subscriptions1
  • Remove Ads$0.991 Month
3 purchases

GroupSpeak

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro Subscription$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • GroupSpeak Pro$29.99

Questions

Is Contacts Grouping Lite free?
Contacts Grouping Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GroupSpeak free?
GroupSpeak is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Contacts Grouping Lite or GroupSpeak?
Contacts Grouping Lite is rated higher. Contacts Grouping Lite averages 4.7 out of 5 from 69 ratings, while GroupSpeak averages 4.2 from 17 ratings.
Do Contacts Grouping Lite or GroupSpeak have ads?
Contacts Grouping Lite shows ads; GroupSpeak does not.
Which is updated more often, Contacts Grouping Lite or GroupSpeak?
Contacts Grouping Lite ships an update every 2 months, and GroupSpeak every 5 weeks. Most recently, Contacts Grouping Lite was updated on November 1, 2026 and GroupSpeak on November 3, 2026.

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