Text Request vs Appointy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Request
This app allows businesses to manage customer conversations and send messages on the go. It provides real-time notifications for new messages, enables mass messaging for promotions, and offers team collaboration features. Users can also manage contacts, settings, and request payments via SMS.
- Mobile customer conversations
- Inbound message notifications
- On-the-go conversation initiation
- Mass messaging for promotions
- Team collaboration features
- Contact and group list management
- SMS payment requests
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Connect with customers whenever you want, wherever you work using Text Request’s mobile app. * Take customer conversations with you wherever you go * Get notified of new inbound messages * Spark new conversations on-the-go * Send mass messages for promotions or updates anytime * Keep your team in the loop with shared dashboards, type-alerts, and other team-friendly features * Manage individual contacts and group lists inside the app * Manage your account, settings, and users all from your mobile device * Request payments via SMS Get the power of text messaging to ignite customer engagement. All it takes is an active Text Request account. Already using Text Request? Click Install now. Not using Text Request yet? See what the hype’s all about at textrequest.com/demo. * Take customer conversations with you wherever you go * Get notified of new inbound messages * Spark new conversations on-the-go * Send mass messages for promotions or updates anytime * Keep your team in the loop with shared dashboards, type-alerts, and other team-friendly features * Manage individual contacts and group lists inside the app * Manage your account, settings, and users all from your mobile device Get the power of text messaging to ignite customer engagement. All it takes is an active Text Request account. Already using Text Request? Click Install now. Not using Text Request yet? See what the hype’s all about at textrequest.com/demo.
Appointy
This business software simplifies appointment scheduling to help you grow your clientele. It aims to increase productivity by managing customer interactions and retention through a single platform.
- Appointment scheduling
- Business growth tools
- Productivity increase
- Customer attraction
- Customer retention
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Discover the easiest way to grow your business! Schedule, Increase Productivity, Attract and Retain customers - All with one software.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Text Request at 71% against Appointy's 22%. Text Request also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.2). Appointy's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Text Request holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 54 and 52 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Text Request's written reviews are positive against 22% of Appointy's.
Text Request ships an update fortnightly, Appointy every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Request | Appointy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (54 ratings) — better | 2.2 (52 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.7% of reviews — better | 22.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 52 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Text Request | Appointy Global Lte Ltd |
Customer experience
Text Request
Appointy
Bugs and requests
Text Request
Reported bugs
31 issues- Aggressively logs out every couple of hours
- Login process is horrible
- Notifications of received texts but app logs out
- Contact management features barely work
- Can't add tags in contact management
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- Can't save name or phone changes in contact management
- App glitches and needs re-downloading
- Constantly have to force close the app for new messages
- App is blank and messages won't load
- App hangs/freezes
- Requires repeated logging in
- App crashes
- Blank screens
- Messages won't load
- Force quit app a couple of times a day
- App is sub mid
- Over the last few months, the app has been nothing but trouble
- Seems to lock up or load slowly on occasion
- Constantly freezes
- Sound and banner notifications are seemingly random
- Miss texts from customers
- Notifications don’t alert when they come thru
- Badge counts won’t go away
- Wont send messages have the time
- Pictures are distorted
- Half the time the app won’t open at all
- Cannot start a new conversation from the app
- Get notifications when logged out
- On iPhone XS, the app header does not appear properly
- When login information is auto-filled with a password manager, the login attempt is thwarted by the error “enter password.”
- For the contact, the “custom” field is called “email address.”
Requested features
7 requests- Improve responsiveness when returning to app
- Add landscape mode for iPad
- Improve search feature
- Improve preview to show most recent text
- Fix app header overlap on iPhone
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- Allow auto-filled passwords without workaround
- Clarify 'custom' field name
Appointy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Request
No in-app purchases
Appointy
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Text Request free?
Is Appointy free?
Which has better reviews, Text Request or Appointy?
Do Text Request or Appointy have ads?
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