Startel Secure Messaging Plus vs alive5
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Startel Secure Messaging Plus
This app provides a secure and HIPAA-compliant method for sending and receiving text messages. It features end-to-end encryption, expiring messages, and remote wipe capabilities to protect sensitive information.
- HIPAA and HITECH compliant
- End-to-end message encryption
- Expiring messages (up to 30 days)
- Voice and image attachments
- Remote wipe capability
- Device receipt notifications
- Multi-device single login
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The Startel Secure Messaging Plus application is a safe and effective way to send and receive HIPAA compliant text messages. Message content and attachments are encrypted on servers and on smartphones, and in transmission. Fully configurable, senders are in complete control of determining the length of message life within a maximum 30 day period. Selected features include: expiring messages, voice/image attachment capability, remote wipe capability and device receipt notifications. Startel Secure Messaging Plus supports HIPAA and HITECH compliance. Users can receive messages across multiple devices using a single login including tablets, smartphones, and personal computers. If protecting your sensitive text messages is of importance to you, your organization and your industry – choose right and depend on Startel Secure Messaging Plus.
alive5
This app streamlines customer communication for agents on the go. It allows for accepting live chat requests and responding to customers via SMS/text messaging, with improvements to real-time conversation loading and message sending functionality.
- Accept live chat requests
- Respond via SMS/Text Messaging
- Real-time conversation loading
- Improved message sending
- Simplified interface
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Introducing a brand new, simplified and minimized Alive5 mobile app. We’ve redesigned and rebuilt this to work better for Agents on the go who want to accept live chat requests and answer customers via SMS/Text Messaging. Many issues were resolved where the chat conversations would not load in real-time, and also some phone versions had issues accessing the textarea to send messages.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Startel Secure Messaging Plus at 16% against alive5's 0%. alive5's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Startel Secure Messaging Plus ships an update every 4 months, alive5 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 23, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Startel Secure Messaging Plus | alive5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.2 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Startel Coporation | Alive5, Inc |
Customer experience
Startel Secure Messaging Plus
alive5
In-app purchases
Startel Secure Messaging Plus
No in-app purchases
alive5
No in-app purchases
Questions
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