Txtwire vs Hi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Txtwire
Easily send custom group text messages to your subscribers. Organize contacts into lists and compose, preview, and send messages directly from your device. Secure authentication ensures quick and safe access.
- Send group text messages
- Manage subscriber lists
- Compose and preview messages
- Secure authentication
- Add contacts to messages
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A simple way to send messages to your Txtwire subscribers. Take the difficulty out of communicating with your subscribers. Create and send your custom message to any of your subscriber lists right from the palm of your hand. - Touch ID for quick and secure authentication - Quickly add your divisions, groups, and individual subscribers to a message - Compose, preview, and send group text messages with ease
Hi
Send and receive text and picture messages using your business phone number from any device. Allows multiple users to access the same number for team collaboration. Customers can text your business number easily without needing a separate app.
- Send/receive texts from business number
- Supports text and picture messages
- Use on multiple devices with one sign-in
- Access via web browser
- Multiple users can share a number
- Customer-friendly communication
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With Hi-Link SMS, you can send and receive texts from your Hi-Link business phone numbers. Make and receive text messages using your business phone number! • Use your business phone number to text instead of your personal number • Send and receive text and picture messages to/from any cell phone number in the continental US View your messages on multiple devices: • Use your account on multiple devices with one sign-in • Access your messages from any computer via your browser (Chrome/Firefox/Edge) • Multiple users can access the same number so you or your team can reply to any message Now your customers can communicate with you with the ease and convenience that they have when texting with friends and family. No need to download a separate messaging “app” to contact you - they can simply text your business number and get in touch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Hi at 14.0 against Txtwire's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 Txtwire against 5.0 for Hi. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Txtwire ships an update every 17 months, Hi every 27 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Txtwire | Hi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months — better | Every 27 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Txtwire Technologies, Inc. | Textable |
Customer experience
Txtwire
Hi
In-app purchases
Txtwire
No in-app purchases
Hi
No in-app purchases
