Comparison

Text Message Sounds vs Whisl

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

Head to head
About

Text Message Sounds

Discover a wide variety of sound effects and ringtones specifically designed for text message alerts. Easily preview and save your favorite sounds to personalize your notifications. Enjoy a collection of loud, funny, and popular alert tones.

Highlights
  • Popular sound effects for alerts
  • Customizable text message ringtones
  • Save favorite sounds
  • Loud ringtones
  • Funny sound effects
Features
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Text message sounds includes popular sound effects perfect for a text message ringtone or any kind of alert tone. Simply tap a button to listen to the text message sound effects and ringtones. Easily save your favorite as a custom text message sound. Text message sounds includes: Loud text message ringtones easy and safe to use save your favorite text message sound funny sound effects and many more Enjoy these free text message sound effects!

About

Whisl

A social media platform offering a unique modular channel hub for creators and businesses. Users can connect with friends, access information, and creators can streamline their social presence and sell products. Businesses can build utility-based channels and monetize their own app ideas.

Highlights
  • Modular channel hub
  • Influencer channels
  • Business channels
  • Integrated store for creators
  • Subscription for exclusive content
  • Build and monetize app ideas
Features
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WHISL is an independent social media platform with the world’s first modular channel hub. Want to connect with your friends? Do that. Want WHISL to be an information app? It can be WHISL is whatever you need it to be in that moment. With our revolutionary channel-hub, there are two types of channels. Influencer channels & Business channels. Influencer Channels allow the creator to streamline their entire social portfolio into one place, meaning that your supporters don’t have to go to a million different platforms to keep up with what you’re doing. WHISL also minimizes the friction it takes for you to sell your products/merchandise by giving the channel owner their own store to sell their widgets. Consumers can also support their favorite influencers through a $5 a month subscription service that gives them access to exclusive content if available. Business Channels are based on utility. An example is school ratings in your area. You shouldn’t have to jump through hoops on the internet to find that kind of information. Now you don’t have to. On the channel creator side. Say you have an idea for an app but don’t have the $30k it takes to do so, with us, it only costs at most $2,000 and we put you into a mall-styled ecosystem. You design your channel, your revenue model, and you’re your own boss. Join WHISL today, and for the first time on a social media platform, design your own experience.

Screenshots

Text Message Sounds4 screens
Whisl4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Whisl at 5.0 against Text Message Sounds's 3.8. Whisl also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months). Text Message Sounds's advantage is ratings volume (83 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Whisl holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Message Sounds has 83 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Message Sounds ships an update every 19 months, Whisl every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Text Message Sounds versus Whisl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText Message SoundsWhisl
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (83 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.5% of reviews
Number of ratings83 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB70 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCatherine LopezAppuno

Customer experience

Text Message Sounds

All ratings83 ratings
Positive65.1%
Neutral9.6%
Negative25.3%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive45.5%
Neutral9.1%
Negative45.5%

Whisl

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Text Message Sounds

No in-app purchases

None

Whisl

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Message Sounds free?
Text Message Sounds is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Whisl free?
Whisl is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Text Message Sounds or Whisl?
Whisl is rated higher. Text Message Sounds averages 3.8 out of 5 from 83 ratings, while Whisl averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Text Message Sounds or Whisl have ads?
Text Message Sounds shows ads; Whisl does not.
Which is updated more often, Text Message Sounds or Whisl?
Text Message Sounds ships an update every 19 months, and Whisl every 2 months. Most recently, Text Message Sounds was updated on September 8, 2026 and Whisl on September 9, 2026.

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