SMS vs Driveway Alert
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SMS
Send and receive SMS and MMS messages across your devices seamlessly. Your messages stay synced and accessible from your mobile device or web browser, using your existing phone number. It offers easy setup and secure cloud integration.
- Cross-device SMS and MMS sync
- Cloud integration for message backup
- Use your own phone number
- Seamless syncing across devices
- Easy setup
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Stay connected everywhere with SMS Plus — the easy way to send and receive SMS messages using your personal flip phone number. SMS Plus allows you to send and receive SMS and MMS messages across your devices seamlessly. Whether you're using your mobile device or a web browser, your messages stay synced and accessible whenever you need them. KEY FEATURES Cross-Device SMS Sync Send and receive SMS and MMS messages across supported devices. Cloud Integration Your messages stay in sync automatically, securely stored and accessible anytime. Easy Setup No technical skills needed — start syncing your messages in minutes. Use Your Own Number SMS Plus works with your existing flip phone number — just like your native SMS app.
Driveway Alert
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Driveway Alert watches your Ring driveway camera and tells you which car just pulled in. Save the cars you know — family, partners, regular visitors — by make, model, body type and colour, and get a clear notification the moment one of them arrives, and a different one when something unfamiliar does. Driveway Alert does not read licence plates. No plate text is produced, matched or stored. • CARS YOU KNOW, BY NAME Save a vehicle once and give it a name. When it comes back the alert says who it is, instead of "motion detected". • QUIET HOURS FOR THE UNFAMILIAR During the hours you choose (10pm–6am by default) an unfamiliar vehicle raises a low-key heads-up, so you can check without being woken by everything else. • ARRIVALS YOU CAN SCAN The arrivals list groups the day by time, with the vehicle description, the name you gave it, and how sure the match is. Tap an arrival for the detail and the snapshot it came from. • YOUR DATA A snapshot is taken from your Ring camera to describe the vehicle and is kept with the arrival so you can see what triggered it. Snapshots and arrivals are deleted automatically after 90 days. Deleting your account removes everything. • RING INTEGRATION Driveway Alert is a Ring partner app. Link it from your Ring account — no extra hardware. Terms and Privacy Policy: https://drivewayalert.erbacciltd.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Driveway Alert at every 10 days against SMS's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SMS ships an update every 3 weeks, Driveway Alert every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SMS | Driveway Alert |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tawlq. Inc | Nicola Erbacci |
In-app purchases
SMS
No in-app purchases
Driveway Alert
No in-app purchases
