Comparison

Text Faces for Texting vs ttmsg

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Over 10,000 emojis
  • ASCII emoticons
  • Emoji art
  • Enhance text messages
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This app gives you extra emojis. √ over 10000 emojis

About

ttmsg

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Text Faces for Texting4 screens
ttmsg2 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ttmsg sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Text Faces for Texting asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Text Faces for Texting versus ttmsg: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText Faces for Textingttmsg
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 9 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB15 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperShuMei LiangSami 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

None

Text Faces for Texting

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

ttmsg

One-time1
  • Premium$2.99

Questions

Is Text Faces for Texting free?
Text Faces for Texting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ttmsg free?
ttmsg is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Text Faces for Texting or ttmsg have ads?
Text Faces for Texting shows ads; ttmsg does not.
Which is updated more often, Text Faces for Texting or ttmsg?
Text Faces for Texting ships an update every 3 weeks, and ttmsg every 9 months. Most recently, Text Faces for Texting was updated on September 23, 2026 and ttmsg on September 18, 2026.

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