TruText vs Texting with Approved Contact
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TruText
Enable businesses to text customers using their existing landline numbers. This mobile application serves as an extension of the company's online software, streamlining customer communication.
- Text from landline numbers
- Customer communication tool
- Extension of online software
- Business-focused features
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This app provides businesses to use their landline numbers to text their customers. This is an extension of our online software.
Texting with Approved Contact
Send SMS/MMS messages to customers and partners directly from your existing phone numbers. This business tool enables secure storage and review of texts within collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex, facilitating integration with CRMs.
- Send SMS/MMS from existing numbers
- Data loss and prevention storage
- Review texts in Teams and Webex
- Import texts into CRM
- Use existing phone numbers
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Texting with Approved Contact will allow you to send SMS/MMS to your customers and partners from your existing numbers! Allow your organization's texts to be stored for input into data loss and prevention. Open, review, and respond to texts in products like Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex - the same texts you'd receive on your phone through this app. Make texts available to import into your CRM or other business applications. Contact sales@approvedcontact.com to set up your number today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TruText at every 2 months against Texting with Approved Contact's every 5 months. On price, rating, ratings volume 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
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 — 5.0 for TruText against 5.0 for Texting with Approved Contact. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
TruText ships an update every 2 months, Texting with Approved Contact every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | TruText | Texting with Approved Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TruText LLC | Approved Contact, LLC |
In-app purchases
TruText
No in-app purchases
Texting with Approved Contact
No in-app purchases
Questions
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