Comparison

OnRelay vs PhoneLynk

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

Head to head
About

OnRelay

This business phone service allows you to manage your company's mainline calls and use your business phone numbers directly from your smartphone. It eliminates the need for traditional desk phones and on-premises hardware, offering features like auto attendants and call transfers. Seamlessly separate business and personal calls while enabling texting and instant messaging.

Highlights
  • Use business phone numbers on smartphone
  • Manage company mainline calls
  • Auto attendant and call transfers
  • Separate business and personal calls
  • Texting and instant messaging
  • Works over any carrier, not VoIP
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OnRelay is a turn-key, software-only, mobile business phone service. OnRelay allows you to use your business phone numbers and manage your company mainline calls from your smartphone. OnRelay also eliminates the need and expense of land-line desk phones and their associated on-premises hardware, cabling and infrastructure. OnRelay’s office phone system uses standard cellular voice connections, it works over any carrier, and is not a VoIP app. OnRelay includes a comprehensive mainline feature with an auto attendant, call groups, easily configurable voice menus and extension transfers. OnRelay thereby allows a virtual or mobile organisation to effectively handle, distribute and respond to customer calls in a professional manner. The Office Phone App also lets you separate your office phone calls and your personal calls on your iPhone. You can seamlessly place and receive calls using either your direct office phone number, your main company number or your personal cell number. You can also easily control when you are available for office calls and see whether incoming calls are company mainline calls, direct office calls, or regular personal cell calls. Texting from both direct numbers and main company numbers are also fully supported, as well as instant messaging between extensions and between all members of a call group. For further information please see: Demo Video: www.onrelay.com/demo-video Licensing and Terms of Use: www.onrelay.com/about/software-licensing-terms-of-use Privacy Policy: www.onrelay.com/privacy-policy Service Level Agreement: www.onrelay.com/service-level-agreement

About

PhoneLynk

Establish a professional business identity on your smartphone with a dedicated business phone number. Features include automated virtual receptionists, call transfers, professional greetings, call tracking, and call recording. It helps separate business and personal calls and reduces the cost of traditional phone systems.

Highlights
  • Dedicated business phone numbers
  • Automated virtual receptionist
  • Call transfer and simultaneous ringing
  • Professional voice greetings
  • Call and text message tracking
  • Call recording
  • Automated spam call blocker
Features
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Upgrade your smartphone to Business Class! Your business deserves a smart dedicated phone number. With PhoneLynk you can create a professional business identity on your smartphone. - Create a more professional image for your small business. - Dramatically reduce the cost of traditional phone systems. - Dedicated business numbers, or port your existing number. - Automated Virtual Receptionist - Transfer calls between employees - Ring multiple phones simultaneously - Create professional voice greetings - Track calls and text messages - Assign employees numbers you control - Call recording and much more PhoneLynk grew out of our need for a phone and texting solution to grow our business. The features we add are those we need along with features our customers request. We needed a way to take control of our phones by separating our personal and professional phone numbers, so that’s exactly what we did. AUTOMATED ATTENDANT! Our Automated Virtual Receptionist greets your customers and transfers them to the appropriate employee or department. For example, press 1 for Sales, press 2 for John Doe, etc. You can record your own professional greeting to showcase your company! EXTENSION NUMBERS FOR EVERY EMPLOYEE! Now you can have one company phone number and assign an extension to each employee. Callers will hear your Automated Attendant recording, but if they know an employee’s extension they can enter it directly, no waiting! RING MULTIPLE EMPLOYEES AT ONCE As a business it’s critical to respond to customers quickly. PhoneLynk allows you to ring multiple phones at once and allow the first available employee to answer. Employees can set themselves to online or offline to indicate when they’re available. Available status can also be scheduled to go into effect automatically! DISTINGUISH BUSINESS AND PERSONAL CALLS It’s easy to differentiate between your personal and business calls on your cellphone! No mix ups or confusion regarding when and how to answer. RECORD PHONE CALLS Now you can record any incoming or outgoing call with the click of a button. No confusing conferencing in a second line or using the speaker phone and a second recorder. Just click the record button and you’re done! AUTOMATIC SPAM CALL BLOCKER Everybody hates getting spam calls from telemarketers and scammers, so PhoneLynk.io refers to a database with thousands of phone numbers reported as spam calls to help prevent you from being bothered by them! UNLIMITED NUMBERS Stop sharing numbers! With PhoneLynk.io you can create as many business phone numbers as needed for about the cost of a latte! KEEP A CALL JOURNAL Each time you place or receive a call you'll be able to enter a memo about that call. This is great for business or for online sales. It's like a mini-contact manager built into your phone! You can easily refer back to your call journal to see what notes you entered after a call! Subscriptions: When subscribing to PhoneLynk via In App Purchase, payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Charges are monthly, the amount charged will be based on the plan selected. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Service Title: PhoneLynk.io. Service period is monthly and provides access to VOIP services. Terms of service: www.phonelynk.io/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: www.phonelynk.io/privacy-policy

Screenshots

OnRelay4 screens
PhoneLynk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: OnRelay at 5.0 against PhoneLynk's 4.5. OnRelay also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 9). PhoneLynk's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. PhoneLynk sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per month. OnRelay asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OnRelay holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PhoneLynk has 29 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OnRelay ships an update every 3 weeks, PhoneLynk monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
OnRelay versus PhoneLynk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOnRelayPhoneLynk
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.5 (29 ratings)
Positive reviews—94.1% of reviews
Number of ratings229 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOnRelayCrowdMarket, Inc.

Customer experience

OnRelay

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PhoneLynk

All ratings29 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.8%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.9%

In-app purchases

None

OnRelay

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

PhoneLynk

Subscriptions6
  • 1 Line - Personal Security$29.991 Month
  • 1 Line - Business Starter$34.991 Month
  • 2 Line Business Starter$69.991 Month
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  • 3 Lines - Small Business$104.991 Month
  • 5 Lines - Business Plus$174.991 Month
  • 10 Lines - Business 10$299.991 Month
One-time3
  • 400 Text Messages$7.99
  • 400 Call Minutes$12.99
  • Prepaid Disposable Number$34.99

Questions

Is OnRelay free?
OnRelay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PhoneLynk free?
PhoneLynk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, OnRelay or PhoneLynk?
OnRelay is rated higher. OnRelay averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while PhoneLynk averages 4.5 from 29 ratings.
Do OnRelay or PhoneLynk have ads?
Neither OnRelay nor PhoneLynk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OnRelay or PhoneLynk?
OnRelay ships an update every 3 weeks, and PhoneLynk monthly. Most recently, OnRelay was updated on October 11, 2026 and PhoneLynk on October 24, 2026.

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