Comparison

Text2Drive vs Numa

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Text2Drive

Facilitates communication between dealership employees and customers. Enables sending messages and photos, particularly for repair updates. Requires an existing Text2Drive account to function.

Highlights
  • Employee-to-employee chat
  • Customer chat
  • Photo sharing
  • Repair updates
  • Dealership operations
Features
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An extension of the Text2Drive communication platform, the Mobile Operations Module allows dealership employees to chat with each other or with customers and send them photos (typically of a required repair). This free app only works with a Text2Drive account.

About

Numa

This app transforms your business's voicemail and phone line into a text-enabled communication channel. It rescues missed calls with automated text replies, allows customers to text directly, and can even handle automatic order taking for restaurants. Manage all your business communications, including social media messages, from a single inbox.

Highlights
  • Text-enable voicemail and phone line
  • Automated text replies to missed calls
  • Direct customer texting
  • Automatic order taking for restaurants
  • Unified inbox for messages
  • Automatic language translation
Features
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Say goodbye to missed calls, voicemails, and phone tag. Let Numa text-enable your business’s voicemail and existing phone line! Highlights: * Rescue Missed Calls - your business’s voicemail offers to text customers back when you can’t pick up the phone, rescuing missed customers * Text-Enable Your Phone Line - customers who prefer texting can now text your business directly, enticing new customers * Auto-Replies - Numa saves you time by learning to auto-reply to customers’ common questions * Automatic Order Taking - restaurants can optionally let customers order ahead via text message, integrated directly into their existing Point of Sale and kitchen printers Details: * Easy Setup - no need to switch phone lines or providers; no new hardware required * Use Anywhere - quickly reply to your customers from a mobile phone, desktop computer, or tablet * Nothing Required of Customers - your customers don’t need to install any new app or create any new accounts; they simply call and text your business like normal * Shared Inbox - add additional employees to reply to customers even quicker; assign specific conversations to the employee best equipped to handle it * Unified Messaging - route your business’s Facebook messages, Google My Business messages, and web chats into Numa Messenger too; you still only have one Inbox to check * Automatic Translations - if you do business with customers who speak other languages, Numa Messenger can act as translator, letting you and your customers seamlessly text in your preferred languages

Screenshots

Text2Drive4 screens
Numa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Numa at 75% against Text2Drive's 22%. Numa also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.9) and update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly). Text2Drive's advantage is ratings volume (99 vs 21). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Numa holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 99 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Text2Drive's written reviews are positive against 75% of Numa's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text2Drive ships an update monthly, Numa every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Text2Drive versus Numa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText2DriveNuma
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.9 (99 ratings)4.0 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews21.8% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings99 — better21
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperText2DriveNumberAI

Customer experience

Text2Drive

All ratings99 ratings
Positive20.2%
Neutral3.0%
Negative76.8%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive21.8%
Neutral1.8%
Negative76.4%

Numa

All ratings21 ratings
Positive76.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative23.8%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Text2Drive

Reported bugs

44 issues
  • Removed reviews
  • App takes up gigabytes of storage
  • Selectivity of photo/video uploads
  • Videos upload with no sound
  • Videos don't go through
Show 39 more
  • Need to restart phone to record video again
  • Cancel button in place of send button
  • Videos send but feedback says otherwise
  • Videos are never clear
  • App is laggy
  • Notification interruption causes video loss
  • Cannot log in
  • Videos do not upload after recording
  • Gray screen when finishing video
  • Freezing when starting video
  • Accidentally deleted videos due to cancel button placement
  • App crashes a lot
  • Camera never focuses
  • Adding photos/videos from media library fails or duplicates
  • White screen when recording
  • No landscape mode
  • Horrible compression
  • App constantly uses more storage
  • No cache clearing option
  • Cannot record on newer phones (iPhone 14 Max)
  • Photos are compressed gibberish
  • Screen is white indefinitely when adding photo manually
  • App is slow and sometimes doesn't load
  • Desktop site shows out of order responses
  • Screen going white when recording
  • Won't upload despite showing uploaded
  • Customers can't open videos
  • App has issues with Bluetooth devices active
  • Metrics produced are flawed
  • Unable to upload photos from gallery (white screen)
  • Crashes every time since update
  • App keeps all videos with no way to delete
  • Opens camera screen then freezes
  • Face recognition cycles multiple times
  • Upload video/picture doesn't go through if phone is closed
  • App doesn't close if phone is left open
  • Super slow, pictures don't load properly
  • App freezes on login screen
  • App shuts down when entering username

Requested features

16 requests
  • Allow deletion of saved videos/data
  • Improve video/photo quality
  • Fix camera focus issue
  • Add landscape mode for iPads
  • Add option to unsend videos
Show 11 more
  • Fix UI update issues (cancel button placement)
  • Show all messages, not just selected ones
  • Allow editing of videos
  • Fix Bluetooth device interference
  • Improve face recognition reliability
  • Allow app to close when phone screen is off
  • Improve upload speed
  • Add cache clearing option
  • Fix issues with older phones (iPhone 5s)
  • Filter notifications between advisors
  • Improve app performance for notifications

Numa

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Text2Drive

No in-app purchases

None

Numa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text2Drive free?
Text2Drive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Numa free?
Numa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Text2Drive or Numa?
Numa is rated higher. Text2Drive averages 1.9 out of 5 from 99 ratings, while Numa averages 4.0 from 21 ratings.
Do Text2Drive or Numa have ads?
Neither Text2Drive nor Numa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text2Drive or Numa?
Text2Drive ships an update monthly, and Numa every 8 days. Most recently, Text2Drive was updated on October 13, 2026 and Numa on October 9, 2026.

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