Tidio vs Formilla Live Chat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tidio
This app provides an all-in-one AI customer support solution for businesses. It combines live chat, chatbots, and lead generation tools to enhance customer satisfaction and drive sales. Manage customer interactions and gather visitor information from anywhere.
- Live chat with customers
- AI-powered chatbots for lead generation
- Quick response templates
- Real-time visitor list
- Detailed visitor information
- Push notifications for new messages
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The Tidio app gives you access to Tidio’s all-in-one AI customer support software suite comprising help desk, chatbot/AI agent, live chat, and lead generation features. With the Tidio mobile app, you’ll be able to use live chat and chatbots for customer satisfaction, increasing sales, generating leads and much more. Features: -Talk to your customers wherever you are Quick Responses - send them during a conversation in a single click, so you can spend more time answering complex enquiries Chatbots - generate leads while you’re offline using chatbots Live Visitor List - list of all visitors browsing your website Visitors Details - access details such as visitor IP, city, country, device type and browser Push Notifications - get notifications about new messages, even when the app is closed
Formilla Live Chat
Enhance your website's customer engagement by enabling real-time chat with visitors, even when you're away. This tool offers instant installation, push notifications for new messages, and visitor monitoring to help you never miss an opportunity.
- Instant website installation
- Push notifications for new chats
- Real-time visitor monitoring
- Canned messages for quick replies
- Customizable chatbots
- Branding and theme customization
- Multi-language support
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Install Formilla Live Chat on your website and allow your visitors to chat with you, even when you're on the go! Simply download this app and login with your existing Formilla Live Chat premium account. Formilla Live Chat features: Installs Instantly: Our live chat software works with any website platform, including WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Shopify, Drupal, and many more. Use one of our existing plugins to install instantly and chat with your users on-the-go from your iPhone or iPad. Push Notifications: Stay logged in any time of day and receive push notifications even if the Formilla Live Chat app is closed or in the background. Never miss a chat, support, or sales opportunity again! From within the app, you can even enable push notifications whenever a new visitor arrives on your website. Real-time Visitor Monitoring: The Formilla Live Chat app will automatically display and update the number of active visitors currently on your website right on your iPhone or iPad. Initiate live chats with users, see what web pages they have visited, the referring site URL, whether they're a new or returning user, etc. Formilla Live Chat visitor monitoring comes with any of our Premium account packages. Canned Messages (Saved Replies): Create Canned Messages to respond to customers very quickly! Simply save the full message as a shortcut, and use it to send responses in less than a second! Custom Bots: Chatbots work around the clock to automatically qualify leads, book meetings, and provide information about your products or services to customers, even without having to chat with a live person! A.I. Chat Bots: Helper Chat Bots respond to common visitor questions 24/7, with the power of Artificial Intelligence. Custom Branding, Colors, & Themes: Formilla Live Chat software Premium packages allow you to customize your chat widgets to match your site's look and feel. Change the color of the chat button/widget, chat message and font color, backgrounds, etc. Upload your own online and offline live chat images to use in your header, footer, etc. to encourage customers to live chat! Language Support (International): Our Language support option allows you to customize the text of the live chat buttons, chat forms, and offline email forms. Our Premium packages allow you to customize your live chat widget in any language, including Spanish, French, Indonesian, Portuguese, Chinese, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Polish, and much more! Pro-active Chat: Enable pro-active chat to trigger live chat automatically with a visitor on your website after a defined number of seconds. User/Agent is Typing a Message...: Now you don't need to wonder if the person you're chatting with is even on the other end! Formilla Live Chat keeps visitors and agents informed if the User or Agent is typing a message. This improves usability and makes conversations more enjoyable. Visitor Technical Info: Easily access your chat visitor's technical details from your iPhone or iPad such as what operating system, browser, or screen resolution they're using. Advanced Customization: Formilla Live Chat software gives you the ability to stretch the width and height of the live chat button, add an image such as your logo, and control the location down to the pixel! You get access to the CSS for the live chat button and attention grabber to make it look perfect!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tidio at 4.8 against Formilla Live Chat's 3.3. Tidio also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (4.8K vs 9). Formilla Live Chat's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Tidio holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tidio has 4.8K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Tidio's written reviews are positive against 62% of Formilla Live Chat's.
Tidio ships an update every 9 days, Formilla Live Chat every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tidio | Formilla Live Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.8K ratings) — better | 3.3 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews — better | 61.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.8K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TIDIO POLAND SP Z O O | Formilla.com |
Customer experience
Tidio
Formilla Live Chat
Bugs and requests
Tidio
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to stay logged in
- Failure to show live chat messages
- Blurring of customer information
- Frequent app log-outs
Requested features
5 requests- Multi-account support
- Customizable notification sounds
- Improved mobile app functionality
- Integration with other platforms
- More detailed analytics and reporting
Formilla Live Chat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tidio
No in-app purchases
Formilla Live Chat
No in-app purchases
Questions
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