Contacts Groups vs GroupSpeak
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contacts Groups
Easily send mass text messages and emails to your organized contact groups. Save time and stay connected with friends, family, or customers by sending messages, vCards, or even attachments to multiple people at once. Features include push notifications, one-tap calling, and birthday reminders.
- Mass SMS and email sending
- vCard sharing
- Push notifications
- One-tap calling
- Birthday reminders
- Message templates
- iCloud sync
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Contacts Groups make it easy to mass send messages to your groups of friends, family, customers, or others. The app can send text messages and emails to multiple contacts at one time. It's the best way to keep in touch. When sending a message to groups of contacts, you can include vCards in the email or message body. This makes it easy to send a message to your entire address book. Use Contacts Groups to save time and stay in contact with the people you care about. Note: You can install the app on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The app also provides you with several powerful features, such as: - Push notifications - Know when someone sends you a message - Email & SMS - Send text messages & emails easily - One-tap call - Call contacts directly from the app - iCloud Sync for Groups and Contacts - Birthday reminders - Send a bulk text message (SMS or iMessage) to a group of people. - Send out bulk emails with attachments - Create message templates in advance. - Import photos, videos, and files from iCloud Drive - Share contacts as vCard - Works on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (iPad and iPod can only send iMessages) - In 11 Languages to Choose From, such as English, Español, Français, Deutsch, Português (Br.), Português, Italiano, 中文 (Simplified), Руcский, 日本語, 한국어 Please Note: If you found this app helpful, please Like, Review, and Comment.
GroupSpeak
Effortlessly send personalized text messages to multiple contacts simultaneously. Organize contacts into groups, utilize message templates for recurring texts, and sync across devices. Import contacts and groups easily from CSV files.
- Create and manage contact groups
- Send personalized mass texts
- Automatic group messaging
- Message templates
- iCloud sync across devices
- CSV contact import
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GroupSpeak makes group messaging fast and effortless. Easily send personalized texts to multiple contacts at once, all from a clean and intuitive app. Create and manage groups in seconds, find contacts instantly, and select multiple numbers per person when needed. Save time with message templates for recurring texts and stay connected with ease. Features: • Create and manage groups of contacts • Send messages to groups individually or all at once • Automatically send messages to group contacts • Use templates for recurring messages • Sync your groups across all your Apple devices with iCloud • Import contacts or entire groups from a CSV file Terms of Use: https://lazyboard.app/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://lazyboard.app/our-apps-privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Contacts Groups at none against GroupSpeak's 3. Contacts Groups also leads on ratings volume (111 vs 16) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). GroupSpeak's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 9 months). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. GroupSpeak sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Contacts Groups asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Contacts Groups against 4.2 for GroupSpeak. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Contacts Groups has 111 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 33% and 33% positive.
Contacts Groups ships an update every 9 months, GroupSpeak every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contacts Groups | GroupSpeak |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (111 ratings) | 4.2 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 111 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LiveBird Technologies Private Limited | Elsayed Hussein |
Customer experience
Contacts Groups
GroupSpeak
In-app purchases
Contacts Groups
No in-app purchases
GroupSpeak
- Monthly Pro Subscription$1.991 Month
- Yearly Pro Subscription$14.991 Year
- LazyGroup Pro$29.99
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