TalkKing vs BLE Messenger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TalkKing
Connect with friends from your address book through live chat and messaging. Share text, photos, and even offline messages that are delivered when your friends are online. It offers a free alternative for instant communication.
- Live chat with friends
- Send text messages
- Share photos
- Offline message delivery
- Add friends from address book
- Free SMS invitations
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TalkKing is a live-chat application that allows you to add friends from your address book into the app. It is also named as TalkKing,Talk King,齐聊,齊聊,乜都傾,SMS,Instant Message,Whatsapp,WeChat,Facebook,LINE,Skype,MSN,Telegram. With TalkKing, you can send text messages, photos, and even offline messages to your friends. Whenever your friends open TalkKing, they can receive your offline messages or directly have a live chat with you! To receive the validation code when registering, please use your mobile phone number. An alternative to WhatsApp. 1. Free SMS 2. Send photos 3. Add friends from your phone's address book 4. Send invitation to your friends by Free SMS 5. Receive live message and notifications
BLE Messenger
Connect with nearby users without Wi-Fi or radio networks. Share photos, sound data, and messages securely with end-to-end encryption. Resume conversations easily and delete sent messages if needed.
- Nearby user detection and connection
- Secure encrypted messaging
- Photo and sound data sharing
- Message deletion
- Conversation history
- Background notifications
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This app does not necessary for wi-fi or radio network. Can be easily detecting users and connect by nearby users. Can use to setting to that. Alert, notification, or notification previews. Conversation can be easily resumed, You can reconnect to users. When app is background, notification to your device. And You can share the photos and recorded sound data to other user. You can share the timeline for friends and yourself. record is can be sent like and erase. Implemented to Encrypt function. You can sent secure message. Even if a wrong message is sent to the partner, it's OK! It can be eliminated from an option. Let's you start to the conversation, and share!!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BLE Messenger at 100% against TalkKing's 10%. BLE Messenger also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3). TalkKing's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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
TalkKing is free to download; BLE Messenger costs $0.99 up front. BLE Messenger sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TalkKing asks for nothing beyond the download.
BLE Messenger holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of TalkKing's written reviews are positive against 100% of BLE Messenger's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TalkKing | BLE Messenger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Reasonable Software | Ohkubo Yuhei |
Customer experience
TalkKing
BLE Messenger
In-app purchases
TalkKing
No in-app purchases
BLE Messenger
- Background color$0.99
