Group Text and Email vs Google Chat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Group Text and Email
This app provides a quick and efficient method for sending personalized group text and email messages. Utilize templates to automatically insert specific details, making your communications more impactful and tailored to recipients.
- Personalized group messaging
- Template-based message creation
- Efficient message sending
- Email and text message support
- Customizable message content
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Want to personalize your text/email messages? We got solutions for you. This app offers a faster and more effective way to send personalized group text/email messages on a regular basis. If you use a template, the app can fill in the right information to get your messages more personalized. To make your text/email messages more powerful and effective, you need this app.
Google Chat
Connect, collaborate, and accomplish tasks with AI-powered messaging. Streamline teamwork with integrations and smart features. Securely communicate with your team, whether in real-time or asynchronously.
- AI-powered conversation summaries
- Automatic message translation
- AI-powered search
- Action item capture
- Real-time huddles
- Integration with Workspace apps
- Smart chips for linking
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Google Chat is the best way for teams using Workspace to connect, collaborate and get things done. AI-first messaging & collaboration, transformed by Gemini • Stay on top of things with conversation summaries • Automatically translate messages across more than 120 languages • Find what you’re looking for with AI-powered search • Capture action items so the whole team is on the same page Everything teams need to stay connected and get work done • Start a chat with a colleague, a group or even your whole team • Tell your team when you’re heads-down or ready to connect with personalized status updates • Share detailed updates with audio & video messages • Connect in real-time, anytime with huddles The full power of Workspace to transform your teamwork • Integrated with Workspace apps like Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Tasks, and Meet • Streamline teamwork with smart chips to link files, people and spaces • Stay on top of requests, comments and approvals with the Google Drive app for Chat • Install powerful, popular Chat apps like PagerDuty, Jira, GitHub, Workday, and many more • Build no-code, low-code and pro-code apps with Chat APIs Secure • Protected by Google’s cloud-native, zero-trust architecture • No desktop apps to patch, no data stored on end-user devices • Keeps data safe with AI-powered data loss prevention (DLP) plus phishing & malware detection • Migrate away from insecure legacy platforms Chat is included as part of Google Workspace for consumer, education, and business customers. Some premium features require a paid subscription. Follow us for more: Twitter: https://twitter.com/googleworkspace Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/googleworkspace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/googleworkspace/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Google Chat at 4.6 against Group Text and Email's 4.0. Google Chat also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). Group Text and Email's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Group Text and Email sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Google Chat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Google Chat holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Chat has 306K ratings behind it against 46, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Group Text and Email's written reviews are positive against 47% of Google Chat's.
Group Text and Email ships an update every 6 weeks, Google Chat weekly. The most recent releases landed on August 16, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Group Text and Email | Google Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (46 ratings) | 4.6 (306K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 47.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 46 | 306K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #29 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 394 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Appiplayer Software | |
Customer experience
Group Text and Email
Google Chat
Bugs and requests
Group Text and Email
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Google Chat
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inconsistent message delivery and notification issues
- Trouble uploading media and files
- Compatibility problems on older devices
- Frequent app crashes and freezes
Requested features
5 requests- Add voice/video call functionality
- Improve group chat management
- Implement read receipts
- Allow customization and personalization
- Integrate SMS/MMS support
In-app purchases
Group Text and Email
- Group Text and Email Pro$7.99
Google Chat
No in-app purchases
