Hyper vs Text Me Out
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hyper
Receive real-time emergency alerts for your location and any other configured addresses, such as a child's school or workplace. Share critical updates instantly through various social media platforms and email.
- Real-time emergency updates
- Public safety alerts
- Hazardous materials notifications
- Weather alerts
- Monitor multiple locations
- Share alerts via social media
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Get up-to-the-minute updates on emergencies that affect you and your loved ones, from weather to hazardous materials to public safety alerts. Hyper-Reach Anywhere connects to the world-class Hyper-Reach Emergency Notification System in your county to provide you instant information. If your county does not have Hyper-Reach yet, ask them for it. In addition to providing timely information about your own location, you can receive emergency information on any number of other locations you configure, like your child’s school, parent’s home, or your work. Share relevant alerts instantly via email, Facebook, Twitter, or other social media.
Text Me Out
This app provides first responders with a streamlined way to view recent dispatch pages and receive instant push notifications. Users can also listen to recordings of pages to catch any missed details like location or incident information.
- View recent dispatch pages
- Push notification alerts
- Instant page recordings
- Missed information playback
- Designed for first responders
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Text Me Out allows fire fighters and first responders to view a list of all of their recent pages. You will be notified via push notification when you are paged out. If you didn't catch some information in the page, such as location or issue, you can listen to a instant recording of the page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hyper at Free against Text Me Out's $14.99. Text Me Out's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 2.2) and review sentiment (45% vs 7%). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
Hyper is free to download; Text Me Out costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Text Me Out holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of Hyper's written reviews are positive against 45% of Text Me Out's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hyper | Text Me Out |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 2.2 (19 ratings) | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.1% of reviews | 45.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ashergroup, Inc. | Jeremy Jefferson |
Customer experience
Hyper
Text Me Out
In-app purchases
Hyper
No in-app purchases
Text Me Out
No in-app purchases
