Meta Business Suite vs Google Chat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meta Business Suite
Manage your business presence across Facebook and Instagram. Create, schedule, and publish content, engage with customers through unified messaging, and analyze performance with insights. Automate responses to save time and stay organized with notifications.
- Create, schedule, and manage posts and stories
- Respond to messages and comments in one place
- Automate responses
- View performance insights
- Manage notifications and to-do list
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Grow your business and connect with more people with Meta Business Suite. Use this app to: • Create, schedule, and manage posts and stories across your Facebook Page and Instagram account • Connect with more customers by responding to all of your messages and comments in one place—you can even automate responses to save time • View insights about how people are interacting with your posts, stories and ads so you can create content that resonates with them • View your notifications and to-do list so you can stay on top of what matters most
Google Chat
Connect, collaborate, and accomplish tasks with AI-powered messaging. Streamline teamwork with integrations and smart features. Securely communicate with your team, whether in real-time or asynchronously.
- AI-powered conversation summaries
- Automatic message translation
- AI-powered search
- Action item capture
- Real-time huddles
- Integration with Workspace apps
- Smart chips for linking
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Google Chat is the best way for teams using Workspace to connect, collaborate and get things done. AI-first messaging & collaboration, transformed by Gemini • Stay on top of things with conversation summaries • Automatically translate messages across more than 120 languages • Find what you’re looking for with AI-powered search • Capture action items so the whole team is on the same page Everything teams need to stay connected and get work done • Start a chat with a colleague, a group or even your whole team • Tell your team when you’re heads-down or ready to connect with personalized status updates • Share detailed updates with audio & video messages • Connect in real-time, anytime with huddles The full power of Workspace to transform your teamwork • Integrated with Workspace apps like Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Tasks, and Meet • Streamline teamwork with smart chips to link files, people and spaces • Stay on top of requests, comments and approvals with the Google Drive app for Chat • Install powerful, popular Chat apps like PagerDuty, Jira, GitHub, Workday, and many more • Build no-code, low-code and pro-code apps with Chat APIs Secure • Protected by Google’s cloud-native, zero-trust architecture • No desktop apps to patch, no data stored on end-user devices • Keeps data safe with AI-powered data loss prevention (DLP) plus phishing & malware detection • Migrate away from insecure legacy platforms Chat is included as part of Google Workspace for consumer, education, and business customers. Some premium features require a paid subscription. Follow us for more: Twitter: https://twitter.com/googleworkspace Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/googleworkspace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/googleworkspace/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Google Chat at none against Meta Business Suite's shown. Meta Business Suite's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Meta Business Suite against 4.6 for Google Chat. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 510K and 307K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Meta Business Suite's written reviews are positive against 46% of Google Chat's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Meta Business Suite | Google Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (510K ratings) — better | 4.6 (307K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.4% of reviews — better | 45.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 510K — better | 307K |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #24 — better | #29 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 348 MB | 402 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Google LLC |
Customer experience
Meta Business Suite
Google Chat
User reviews
Meta Business Suite
From 510K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Useful for managing accounts across platforms
- 📅 Appointment feature
- 🔗 Ability to post to both Facebook and Instagram
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy and buggy
- 🔔 Persistent notifications that don't disappear
- 📤 Issues with posting and sharing content
- 🤖 Lack of human support and poor communication from developers
- 🔒 Security and privacy concerns
Google Chat
From 307K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Convenient for contacting friends
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Efficient messaging
- 🚀 Seamless integration with Google Suite
- 👍 Useful for business communication
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy and unreliable
- 🤔 Confusing layout and UI
- 🔒 Concerns about privacy and security
- 🔋 High battery drain
- 🤔 Lacks key features from previous Google messaging apps
Bugs and requests
Meta Business Suite
Reported bugs
5 issues- Notifications not working properly
- Messages not showing up or getting lost
- Inability to view or reply to comments and messages
- Scheduled posts not publishing correctly
- Crashing and freezing issues
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to edit scheduled posts
- Improved notification management
- Better integration between Facebook and Instagram
- More user-friendly interface
- Restore previous features from Facebook Pages app
Google Chat
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inconsistent message delivery and notification issues
- Trouble uploading media and files
- Compatibility problems on older devices
- Frequent app crashes and freezes
Requested features
5 requests- Add voice/video call functionality
- Improve group chat management
- Implement read receipts
- Allow customization and personalization
- Integrate SMS/MMS support
In-app purchases
Meta Business Suite
No in-app purchases
Google Chat
No in-app purchases
