Startel Secure Messaging Plus vs ePhoneGo2
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.
ePhoneGo2
This app allows employees to use their personal mobile devices for business calls, maintaining a single office number and voicemail. It ensures business calls display your office caller ID and provides access to corporate contacts, even when on the go.
- Receive office calls on mobile
- Make business calls with office caller ID
- Video calls with other users
- Corporate directory access
- Call transfer and recording
- Voicemail notifications
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To stay competitive, an organization’s high-performing employees need flexibility, to maximize their productivity without being tied to a desk. Plus, as a business, you must be able to maintain and protect sensitive company data while ensuring that your employees are fully accessible even while on the road. Employees often use personal devices for business transactions while on the road, which the company has no visibility of. These road warriors need a viable solution that gives them the ability to use their personal phones yet remain connected to the corporate communication system, enabling them to leverage business information with every call. In addition, businesses frequently lose components of the client interaction history when customers are contacted outside of their corporate phone system. Businesses need a solution that offers insight into all employee / client interactions, even those conducted while their employees were on the road. The solution is ESI ePhoneGO2™. Having the ePhoneGO2™ application on the iOS smartphone presents a user experience that mirrors the functionality of the ESI desktop phone, allowing employees who are “on-the-go” to make and receive business calls from anywhere using their personal devices, while still maintaining a single office phone number and voice mail. This also eliminates the need to publish anyone’s private mobile number to clients! Features – Receive calls on your Mobile device which were placed to your Office phone number – Make outgoing business calls remotely which appear to have been placed from your office – Calls made with ePhoneGO2™ will broadcast your office Caller ID, (not your personal phone number). – Establish one-to-one Video calls with other ePhoneGO2™ users. – Established voice-calls can also be upgraded to Video calls with other ePhoneGO2™ users. – View the Corporate directory with availability status of your contacts. – Create a list of frequently called users from the company directory or your phone’s personal contacts. – Established messaging sessions (SMS or IM). – Transfer calls (blind or supervised) as you would do from your desk. – Record calls from your mobile phone. – Turning Do-Not-Disturb ON or OFF for the mobile device. This allows you to pause alerting while you have your desk phone available). – Call routing options fully sync with your platform – Notification of new voicemail messages. – Make calls over WiFi or 3G / 4G / LTE / 5G, regular data rates apply IMPORTANT ESI ePhoneGO2™ for iOS requires an active account on the ESI Cloud PBX™ **Voice quality is highly dependent upon your WiFi or 3G / 4G / LTE / 5G network bandwidth** Warning for 3G / 4G / LTE Usage Some mobile carriers prohibit or restrict the use of VoIP calls over their networks and may interfere with, block, or institute fees for calls made over their 3G / 4G / LTE / 5G data networks. Check the terms of your cell phone agreement to determine the rules for your carrier. ESI cannot guarantee service and is not responsible for any charges or fees assessed in connection with usage of ESI ePhoneGO2™ on your mobile device. If you experience any issues please open a ticket via the ESI Support site at http://support.esi-estech.com or contact ESI Technical Support at 800-850-2151.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ePhoneGo2 at 4.3 against Startel Secure Messaging Plus's 3.3. ePhoneGo2 also leads on ratings volume (1.5K vs 6) and review sentiment (35% vs 16%). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ePhoneGo2 holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ePhoneGo2 has 1.5K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of Startel Secure Messaging Plus's written reviews are positive against 35% of ePhoneGo2's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Startel Secure Messaging Plus | ePhoneGo2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (6 ratings) | 4.3 (1.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.6% of reviews | 35.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 1.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Startel Corporation | Estech Systems, Inc. (ESI) |
Customer experience
Startel Secure Messaging Plus
ePhoneGo2
Bugs and requests
Startel Secure Messaging Plus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
ePhoneGo2
Reported bugs
3 issues- Text messages section disappeared
- Desktop version still does not properly work
- Dropped calls
Requested features
2 requests- Clearer instructions on how to receive calls after hours
- More reliable text notifications
In-app purchases
Startel Secure Messaging Plus
No in-app purchases
ePhoneGo2
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Startel Secure Messaging Plus free?
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