PATLive vs Tresta
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PATLive
Manage your business communications on the go. Update your receptionist's call handling, and review call summaries, messages, voicemails, and transfer details directly from your mobile device.
- Update receptionist status
- Review call summaries
- Access messages
- View voicemails
- Manage transfer details
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With the PATLive mobile app, you can manage your business from anywhere. Easily update your status to instantly change how receptionists are handling your calls, and review call summaries, messages, voicemails and transfer details. To use the PATLive mobile app, you must be a current customer with a Starter, Standard, Premium, Pro or Pro+ virtual receptionist plan. To learn more about becoming a customer or for assistance with your current account, visit www.patlive.com or call +1 (800) 775-7790.
Tresta
This business phone system offers unlimited calling and texting on a dedicated business number, accessible from your smartphone. It provides essential collaboration features to enhance your company's professional image and communication capabilities.
- Unlimited calling
- Unlimited texting
- Business phone number
- Collaboration features
- Mobile accessibility
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Tresta is a business phone system that’s as mobile as you are, with all the calling, texting and collaboration features you need to help your business look its best. Install Tresta on your smartphone today and begin taking advantage of unlimited calling and texting on your business phone number - from anywhere. Note: The Tresta app uses call bridging to facilitate outbound calls. This requires voice and data to access with your iPhone service provider.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PATLive at 5.0 against Tresta's 4.7. PATLive also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.0). Tresta's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PATLive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 12 respectively.
PATLive ships an update every 2 months, Tresta monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PATLive | Tresta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better | 4.7 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 17.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PATLive, Inc. | Tresta |
Customer experience
PATLive
Tresta
Bugs and requests
PATLive
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Tresta
Reported bugs
57 issues- Text messages no longer show up
- Error message pops up 50% of the time
- Can't make calls until force quit
- Phone locks/shuts off when listening to recordings
- Buggy and often non-responsive iPhone app
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- New update = can't make calls
- Spinning wheel of eternity when calling
- App glitching
- No notifications for text messages
- App directs to website for many options
- No login option on mobile app
- Website doesn't show text conversations
- App won't load texts
- Intermittently does not alert to new messages
- App crashes/closes immediately on iOS
- App doesn't allow picking up calls
- Automatically hangs up calls
- Message app deletes itself, won't send, or sends multiple times
- Caller ID works half the time
- Can't listen to voicemails
- Rings once, no opportunity to answer
- Only allows access to quarter of contact list
- Deletes input when looking elsewhere
- Won't connect calls
- Doesn't send login code
- App constantly freezes
- MMS no longer possible
- Audio gets cut off when phone locks during recordings
- Slow app tends to lag and not display messages at real time correctly
- Call quality dropped badly
- Noticeable delay between speaking and being heard
- Constant delay and echo
- Search shows no results
- Doesn't show contact names
- Notifications don't show
- Text messages not being sent/received
- Calls not connecting to the app
- Call drops
- Lost business due to bugs
- Inconsistent and buggy
- Problems never fixed, got worse
- App having issues, engineers working on it
- Sloppy UI, easy to push wrong buttons
- Bug after bug, can't get code together
- Price went up, features stopped working
- Service feels like perpetual beta
- App is slow and a pain to use
- Technology is from years ago
- Slow when working
- App loads forever
- Customer service and support MIA
- Horrendous customer support
- Chronically malfunctioning app
- Poor design
- Missing key features
- No call transfer
- Web app softphone and text messaging not available
Requested features
11 requests- Make it possible to have a contact list within the Tresta app
- Faster response time between multiple tabs
- Add dark mode option
- Improve UI to look more like a phone service
- Ability to block harassment numbers
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- Add call transfer functionality
- Web app softphone and text messaging over browser
- Fix audio cut off when phone locks during recordings
- Make it possible to cancel membership online
- Add login option to mobile app
- Allow users to see who each number belongs to
In-app purchases
PATLive
No in-app purchases
Tresta
No in-app purchases
