Beeper vs Pilot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beeper
Consolidate all your conversations from multiple messaging platforms into a single application. Send and receive messages across nine different chat networks, streamlining your communication experience.
- Supports 9 chat networks
- Unified inbox
- Send and receive messages
- Desktop app available
- Cross-platform compatibility
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You want to talk to people, not switch apps. Beeper puts WhatsApp, Instagram, Google Messages, and 12 more in one app. Connect up to 5 accounts for free. CONNECT UP TO 15 CHAT APPS WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Discord, Google Chat, Google Messages, Google Voice, Line, LinkedIn, Signal, Slack, Telegram, Tumblr, Viber, and X (Twitter) MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS PER APP You've got two WhatsApp accounts, personal and business. Connect both and see everything in one inbox. FIND ANY MESSAGE, INSTANTLY Search every chat app at once. Filter by person, by app, or by what you're looking for: images, video, links, and files. CONTROL THE CHAT CHAOS · Merge chats across apps into one conversation. · Organize with labels: friends, work, family. · Custom notifications to avoid interruptions. · Clear one inbox, not one per app. WORKS ON ALL YOUR DEVICES Beeper works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chromebook. Everything stays in sync. Start a reply at your desk, finish it on the train. DO MORE WITH BEEPER PLUS · 10 accounts, up to 3 per chat app · Unlimited merged chats and labels · Reminders: never drop the ball · Send later: write at midnight, send at 9am · Incognito mode: read quietly · Voice note transcription · Custom app icon Privacy Policy: https://beeper.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://beeper.com/terms
Pilot
Discover new TV shows with personalized recommendations based on your favorite actors and directors. Log, rate, and review episodes, seasons, and shows, and share your thoughts with friends. Keep track of what you've watched and what's coming up next.
- Personalized show recommendations
- Log, rate, and review episodes/seasons/shows
- Create and share custom lists
- Follow friends and see their activity
- Maintain a watchlist
- New episode notifications
- Collaborate on watchlists
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Pilot is all about discovering shows and sharing your opinions with your friends, with exclusive recommendations tailored to the actors and directors you love - all ad-free. What you can do • Log, rate, and review shows, seasons, and individual episodes, with the date you watched • Keep a diary of everything you've watched, in order, backdated if you logged it late • Build unlimited lists of shows, seasons, episodes, or actors, and share them • Follow friends and see what they're watching and what they thought • Keep a watchlist, and pick up where you left off from the home screen • Get notified when a show you're watching drops a new episode • See what premieres next, including shows that haven't aired yet • Collaborate with friends on watchlists and rankings • Go deeper with the actors you love through recommendations based on your watching across all platforms Reviews can be public or friends only. Drafts stay private until you publish. Free, with no ads and no subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pilot at none against Beeper's 4. Pilot also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Beeper's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Beeper sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Pilot asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pilot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beeper has 1.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Beeper's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pilot's.
Beeper ships an update every 6 days, Pilot every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beeper | Pilot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.1K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 481 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Automattic | Amit Venugopal |
Customer experience
Beeper
Pilot
Bugs and requests
Beeper
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes when trying to tag users
- Deletes parts of message when typing on Mac
Requested features
1 request- Support for more services like Threads, Bluesky, Matrix, Reddit Chat, Twitch, & TikTok DMs
Pilot
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Beeper
- Beeper Plus Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Beeper Plus Plus Monthly7 Days trial$49.991 Month
- Beeper Plus Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
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- Beeper Plus Plus Yearly7 Days trial$499.991 Year
Pilot
No in-app purchases
