RingCentral vs Express Touch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RingCentral
Consolidate business communications including calls, messages, meetings, and faxes into a single application. Leverage an AI Assistant for tasks like note-taking, message polishing, and meeting transcriptions to enhance productivity.
- Unified calls, messages, meetings, and faxes
- AI Assistant for notes and transcriptions
- Team chat with file sharing
- HD video meetings with whiteboarding
- Business SMS with translations
- Digital faxing
- Work and personal modes
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Run your business communications from anywhere with AI built in. RingCentral brings your business phone, messages, and meetings into one powerful mobile app, enhanced with AI across every interaction. AI-powered communication, everywhere AI Receptionist Automatically answer, route, and manage inbound calls so your business never misses a customer. AI Calling Handle calls smarter with AI-powered assistance during and after every conversation. AI Notes and Transcripts Capture every call and meeting with transcripts, summaries, and action items. AI Conversation Expert Get insights, coaching, and recommendations to improve conversations and outcomes. AI Messaging and SMS Manage customer conversations in a shared SMS inbox and let AI draft replies and recaps. Your complete business phone on mobile • Make and receive calls with your business number • Send and receive SMS and team messages • Host and join video meetings from anywhere • Access contacts, call history, and voicemail in one place Built for teams and businesses of any size • Support sales, service, and operations on the go • Stay connected across devices with one unified system • Integrate with Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and more Enterprise-grade reliability • Secure, compliant cloud communications • 99.999% availability for business-critical conversations • Trusted by 500,000 businesses worldwide Download now and access your RingCentral communications on mobile.
Express Touch
This professional lighting controller app allows users to connect to an Express Control network via Wi-Fi. It provides touchscreen interfaces to recall pre-programmed lighting scenes, adjust color and intensity, and view schedules for fixed installations.
- Recall pre-programmed lighting scenes
- Adjust color and intensity
- View programmed lighting schedule
- Connect via Wi-Fi
- Touchscreen interface generation
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Express Control is a professional architectural lighting controller for fixed installations. Express software automatically generates touchscreen interfaces for users to recall pre-programmed lighting scenes, adjust colour and intensity, and to view the programmed lighting schedule. The Express Touch app allows users to connect a mobile device to an Express Control network over Wi-Fi to access those interface pages. Requires Express Control system. For more information visit www.pharoscontrols.com/express
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Express Touch at free against RingCentral's subscription. RingCentral's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (78K vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Express Touch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RingCentral has 78K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
RingCentral ships an update every 3 weeks, Express Touch every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RingCentral | Express Touch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (78K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 78K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #144 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 332 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RingCentral, Inc | Pharos Architectural Controls Ltd |
Customer experience
RingCentral
Express Touch
Bugs and requests
RingCentral
Reported bugs
4 issues- Missed calls and notifications
- Unreliable call quality and connectivity
- Syncing and login issues
- Inability to delete messages
Requested features
4 requests- Dark app icon
- Apple Watch support
- Improved SMS/text messaging functionality
- Customizable app interface
Express Touch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RingCentral
No in-app purchases
Express Touch
No in-app purchases









