Text Faces for Texting vs ttmsg
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Faces for Texting
Access a vast collection of ASCII emoticons and emoji art to enhance your text messages. Express yourself with over 10,000 unique creations.
- Over 10,000 emojis
- ASCII emoticons
- Emoji art
- Enhance text messages
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This app gives you extra emojis. √ over 10000 emojis
ttmsg
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Social networking with no registration, no authentication and no saving of messages. Anonymous too. ttmsg is based on publish-subscribe protocol, MQTT. It works by sending messages to a topic. If someone or something wants to receive messages, they need to subscribe to the same topic. Primary use case for ttmsg is when you want to communicate without any registration and without saving of messages. Just agree the topic, optional password and broker and you're good to go. Agreement of topic and password is done using other means of communication such as talking on the phone or face-to-face. Secondary use case to communicate with devices over MQTT. Sample use case: - You and your friend decide topic and optionally a password. - You then agree the time when you are online. - When the time is right, you both subscribe to agreed topic. - You communicate by publishing messages to topic and respond by publishing message to the same topic. Features, including Premium: - No registration. - No authentication. - No saving of messages. - No knowing who sends or receives messages. - No notifications. If you are not using the app, you won't get any messages. - Encrypted messages, using custom password. - SSL/TLS if broker supports it. - Send images. - Uses multiple 3rd party brokers. - Use your own broker. - UI based on the great command line interface.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text Faces for Texting at none against ttmsg's 1. Text Faces for Texting also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months). ttmsg's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. ttmsg sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Text Faces for Texting asks for nothing beyond the download.
Text Faces for Texting ships an update every 3 weeks, ttmsg every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Faces for Texting | ttmsg |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ShuMei Liang | Sami Salkosuo |
Bugs and requests
Text Faces for Texting
Reported bugs
2 issues- Keyboard doesn't work on iOS 18
- Doesn't work with Twitter
Requested features
3 requests- Add a delete/backspace button for emojis
- Allow users to add their own emojis and create custom folders
- Add a 'favorites' section for quick access to frequently used emojis
ttmsg
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Faces for Texting
No in-app purchases
ttmsg
- Premium$2.99
Questions
Is Text Faces for Texting free?
Is ttmsg free?
Do Text Faces for Texting or ttmsg have ads?
Which is updated more often, Text Faces for Texting or ttmsg?
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