Text Delay vs MessageDesk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Delay
Schedule texts, tweets, and emails to be sent at a later time. Automate message delivery for convenience and to ensure messages are sent at the optimal moment. Offers a premium service for fully automatic sending without user interaction.
- Schedule text messages
- Schedule tweets
- Schedule emails
- Automatic message sending
- Delayed message delivery
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** Over 250,000 messages have been scheduled using Text Delay! Thank you for all the support. ** Delay sending your texts, send when they make sense! Send texts, tweets and emails when it's the right time. This app also offers Text Delay Plus. A service that sends texts automatically when you want them sent. It's not a reminder, you don't have to tap anything, it just sends your text when you want it sent. Terms of Use: https://textdelay.app/terms
MessageDesk
Integrate SMS messaging into your business phone lines, including VoIP and landlines. This app offers a shared team inbox and broadcast capabilities for efficient communication. Features like scheduled messages, autoresponders, and templates help streamline SMS workflows.
- Add SMS to business phone numbers
- Shared team SMS inbox
- Mass text broadcasts
- Scheduled text messages
- Keyword-based autoresponders
- Automation
- Pre-saved text message templates
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Add texting to any business phone number including VoIP and landlines. Use MessageDesk's shared team SMS inbox and mass text broadcasts to get the right message to the right people at the right time. Streamline your SMS communication and save time with scheduled text messages, keyword-based autoresponders, automation, and pre-saved text message templates.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MessageDesk at 80% against Text Delay's 15%. MessageDesk also leads on rating (3.7 vs 2.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 8). Text Delay's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, 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. Text Delay sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. MessageDesk asks for nothing beyond the download.
MessageDesk holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 48 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of Text Delay's written reviews are positive against 80% of MessageDesk's.
Text Delay ships an update every 2 months, MessageDesk every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Delay | MessageDesk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (48 ratings) | 3.7 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nick Walter | Alderwood Labs Inc. |
Customer experience
Text Delay
MessageDesk
Bugs and requests
Text Delay
Reported bugs
12 issues- Scheduled messages fail to send despite appearing sent
- Messages marked 'overdue' without being delivered
- Auto-send feature requires manual send despite paid subscription
- Texts send from random/unknown phone numbers instead of user's number
- App crashes during message composition and sending
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- Support email contact form greyed out and non-functional
- Signature not saving or persisting in app
- No account recovery mechanism for forgotten credentials
- Notification system fails to alert users at scheduled times
- Messages sent with app advertisement footer
- Free version lacks any meaningful functionality
- Premium features still unavailable after purchase
Requested features
13 requests- One-time purchase option instead of monthly subscription
- True automatic text sending without manual intervention
- Send texts from user's own phone number
- Edit functionality for pending/scheduled messages
- Ability to resend previously sent messages at different times
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- iMessage support in addition to SMS
- Email scheduling with auto-send capability
- Social media post scheduling with auto-send
- Proper signature saving and display
- Account recovery options (forgot password/username)
- Multiple contact support options (phone, chat, etc.)
- No signature option for messages
- Expand to other communication platforms
MessageDesk
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Delay
- Text Delay Plus - Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Text Delay Plus - 3 Months7 Days trial$26.993 Months
- Text Delay Plus - 6 Months7 Days trial$47.996 Months
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- Text Delay Plus - Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Add 1 Month$4.99
- Add 3 Months$12.99
- Add 6 Months$24.99
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- Add 1 Year$44.99
MessageDesk
No in-app purchases
