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If you've used SimpleTexting in the past, you know it might be endurable because of its swift learning curve and easy-to-use interface—but some of its features are too frustrating to overlook.
SimpleTexting users complain of:
If you have experienced any of these issues and wish to switch to a new SMS marketing platform (or if you’re just exploring different platform options), read on to discover the 10 best SimpleTexting alternatives I uncovered after reviewing thousands of real user experiences.
I'll discuss how each tool addresses key SimpleTexting shortcomings while highlighting their distinctive features and unique use cases.
Here’s a quick look at all 10 tools.
Mobile Text Alerts is the dependable business texting service for brands that want to reach their audience via an uncluttered channel.
Mobile Text Alerts shines at transparent, easy-to-understand pricing, excellent customer support, and an app built for speedy and reliable SMS delivery even if you are sending messages at scale.
With Mobile Text Alerts, you never have to worry about unknown charges or confusing renewals.
When you sign up, you get a 14-day free trial to learn how the platform works. Your free trial allows you to send up to 50 messages to your audience. That way, you can test message formats and build an SMS marketing strategy before you pay a single penny.
After your free trial expires, you can upgrade to any of Mobile Text Alerts’ 8 pricing models:
You can pay monthly or annually (to save up to 25%).
Unlike many other texting platforms, Mobile Text Alerts charges no additional mobile carrier fees, and unused messages roll over indefinitely (if on an annual plan) or for a month (if on a monthly plan).
“Rates and offerings are competitive. Website is very user friendly.” Dawnie F., G2
“The price has been fair…” Conner T., G2
Mobile Text Alerts provides dedicated human customer support (no bots) for all customers.
Also, every new signup (including trial users) receives a personalized Zoom walk-through of the platform to understand its full capabilities and get up to speed fast.
Mobile Text Alerts also provides nearly immediate customer support via live chat, email, phone, and web form.
“The customer response team was prompt in addressing any issues I had. I highly recommend.” Conner T., G2
“Customer support is nearly immediate with the chat bar on the right. I use it frequently.” Ben K., G2
“A team member is standing by to happily help you with your needs. The customer service is OUTSTANDING. I have had MANY questions answered quickly and easily.” Katie H., G2
Mobile Text Alerts boasts of helpful features like:
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With 4.6 stars on both G2 and Capterra, Mobile Text Alerts definitely lives up to its claims.
Real users have praised Mobile Text Alerts for being easy to use, reliable, hassle-free, and amazing at resolving customer complaints.
“This service is very user-friendly and an asset to communication and advertising for small businesses.” Karl W., G2
“Easy to use platform. Lots of great features and quick responses from customer service.” Zana M., G2
Mobile Text Alerts is almost perfect but it doesn't have a lot of native integrations yet. It does have some—like direct integration with Zoom and Hubspot—but you'll have to use its API or Zapier to connect to other tools (And I bet you can connect all the tools in your workflow!).
EZ Texting is a simple text marketing software that helps brands with effortless SMS and MMS messaging.
Known for its robust compliance tools like age verification to meet legal requirements, A2P security, opt-out management, and a dedicated compliance team, EZ Texting has built a solid customer base since it launched in 2004.
EZ Texting uses credit-based pricing, where on its first 3 plans, you get 500 monthly credits, and on the most expensive enterprise plan, you get 200,000.
One credit represents one message to one contact (so sending the same message to 500 contacts uses 500 credits). If you exhaust your monthly credit allocation but need to send more messages, you pay:
You can also pay annually to save up to 20%.
EZ Texting charges no additional mobile carrier fees, but credits roll over for one month only, so rollover is not available to those on an annual plan.
You can test EZ Texting’s full platform features with their 14-day free trial before committing. The free trial comes with 120 message credits.
EZ Texting’s customer support team is available 7 days a week from 8am-8pm ET. You can reach them via live chat or scheduled meetings.
Users have mixed reactions to EZ Texting’s customer support. While many say the support team is helpful and replies quickly, there are notable complaints about customer service being dismissive about credit rollover.
Also, poor customer service is one of EZ Texting’s top 4 cons on Capterra.
EZ Texting has some unique features like:
EZ Texting has 4.5 stars on G2 and 4.4 stars on Capterra.
The top positive reviews are ease of setup, user-friendliness, and easy communication with buyers.
The top negative reviews are high costs, SMS sending issues, and poor customer support.
EZ Texting’s major demerit is its credit-based pricing which is not budget-friendly for mass texting. If you send 500 or fewer messages per month, any of EZ Texting's first three plans is good for you.
But if you send a lot more messages than that, your costs will add up quickly because you have to buy extra credits for each additional message. You'll also need to accurately predict your monthly SMS sends to calculate the likely monthly costs and be sure you’ll get a positive ROI.
“One thing I dislike is how unclear the credit system is when trying to understand actual costs. It’s hard to tell how much I’m truly spending per message, which makes budgeting and ROI tracking more difficult than it should be.” Bill C., G2.
“The plans are costly for the number of messages we can purchase. The monthly/annual plans are not helpful as our business needs to send messages out in larger numbers.” Marivel M., Capterra.
Read our full EZ Texting review
Textedly is a text message marketing platform for improving effective communication in organizations and businesses.
It's a web-based texting solution with novel features like text-to-pay, SMS polls, custom fonts, and the ability to send lengthy SMS messages.
Textedly has 13 pricing models based on monthly SMS sends and the number of custom keywords.
💡 N.B.: Custom keywords in Textedly are words that, when people text to your assigned Textedly phone number, they get subscribed to receive your SMS messages.
Textedly's 13 pricing plans are:
In addition to your monthly fee on any of these plans, you need to pay:
Textedly accepts annual payments which gives you 20% more monthly messages.
They also offer a 14-day free trial with 50 text messages and 1 custom keyword.
However, unused messages do not roll over to the next month or year.
Textedly provides customer support via SMS, phone calls, online support, and live chat. The support team is available between:
Most users praise Textedly’s customer support for being fast and helpful.
Textedly has some stand-out features like:
Textedly has 4.6 stars on G2 and 4.5 stars on Capterra.
The main positive reviews are great customer support, ease of use, and simplicity of reaching customers.
The main negative reviews are high costs, feature limitations, and dissatisfaction with the message character system.
“Billing can be confusing. When you upgrade to a new monthly plan (which is all billed annually) your existing credits don't rollover, so you should wait until the exact day of the month you need. Also, there is a monthly $8 fee which I wasn't told about when signing up.” CS W., G2
“I strongly dislike the fact that all of the features have to be paid for separately.” Sarah K., G2
Klaviyo is a popular B2C CRM software for building long-lasting customer relationships at scale.
Klaviyo is known primarily for its email marketing function, but it also has SMS marketing, reviews management, mobile app management, and other CRM-specific features.
Klaviyo is positioned as an email + SMS marketing tool so there's no option of just purchasing the SMS marketing part of the tool.
Klaviyo’s prices are based on the number of active profiles you have and the number of emails and SMS/MMS you send monthly.
💡 N.B.: Active profiles are stored contacts that can be emailed by Klaviyo.
The lowest plan is $20/month to store 251-500 active profiles and send 5000 emails and 150 SMS messages (or 50 MMS messages) per month.
On Klaviyo’s pricing page, you can select the number of active profiles you have and your monthly SMS or MMS credits to get your exact monthly cost.
Klaviyo doesn't have a free trial but does have a forever free plan with 500 monthly email sends, 150 monthly SMS/MMS credits, and a maximum of 250 active profiles.
Klaviyo doesn't charge extra mobile carrier fees but email/SMS credits do not roll over once the month ends. There is also no room for annual payments.
Klaviyo provides email and live chat support to all customers on paid plans.
For users on the free plan, they provide a 60-day trial of email support after which you'll have to resolve any issues you have yourself using resources like Klaviyo’s virtual assistant, help center, academy, community, and interactive live training.
Customer support is available for 24 hrs every working day.
Customers rate Klaviyo’s customer support a 4.3 out of 5 on Capterra.
Since Klaviyo is a CRM, it has other robust features that support a well-rounded marketing strategy. These include:
Klaviyo has a review of 4.6 on both Capterra and G2.
The top positive experiences praise its ease of use, email marketing features, and native integrations.
The top negative experiences complain about its steep learning curve, high costs, and missing/limited SMS marketing features.
Klaviyo thrives best as an all-in-one platform for businesses that want to incorporate as many marketing channels as possible within one tool.
Since it's not an SMS-first tool, it lacks many native SMS features. For example, Klaviyo has:
Klaviyo’s pricing relies heavily on the number of active profiles and monthly email sends—features that people who just need the software to send SMS won't be able to maximize.
This makes the costs of using Klaviyo for SMS marketing steep compared to other text marketing tools.
For example, Klaviyo’s $20/month starting price allows only 150 SMS messages per month because it's coupled with 5000 monthly email sends. But alternatives like Mobile Text Alerts and Textedly offer 500 credits for a similar price.
“I wish the SMS functionality was more affordable.” Dan C., G2
Omnisend is a simple platform for managing ecommerce SMS and email marketing.
Like Klaviyo, Omnisend is an email-first platform with SMS marketing being an add-on feature.
Omnisend has three plans: Free, Standard, and Pro. These plans are based on the number of contacts, published product reviews, and monthly email sends.
You can check the exact costs for the number of contacts you have on Omnisend’s pricing page.
After subscribing to a plan, SMS and MMS messages are priced as an add-on fee and your cost per credit/message depends on the destination country (it's $0.015/credit for US/Canada).
As a bonus, if you are on the free or standard plans, you get $1 for SMS credit monthly. And if you are on the Pro plan, you get free SMS credits equivalent to the price of your subscription (if you are paying $78 monthly, you get $78 to purchase SMS credits).
Omnisend doesn't charge additional mobile carrier fees.
There's no free trial or annual pricing but new users can pay for three months upfront to get 30% off. Also, unused SMS credits roll over for the next 30 days.
Omnisend provides 24/7 customer support to all customers (even those on the free plan) across all time zones through in-app live chat and email.
Pro and Standard plan users who pay $400+/month get a dedicated customer success manager. Omnisend also offers migration support for users switching from another platform.
Omnisend is built for ecommerce businesses so it has many ecommerce-specific features:
Omnisend has 4.6 stars on G2 and 4.7 stars on Capterra.
The noteworthy positive reviews are ease of use, amazing customer support, and great email automation features.
The noteworthy negative reviews are missing features and a steep learning curve.
Some of Omnisend’s cons include:
“I wish they could replace the expensive email and SMS that's separate and cost a lot.” Verified User, G2
Read our full Klaviyo vs Omnisend guide
Twilio is a cloud-based customer engagement platform for building amazing customer experiences.
Twilio has numerous APIs for building tools that help nurture and engage customers at every point of their buyer journey. Tools like messaging (SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, etc), email, voice, verification and identity lookup, and customer data platform.
Twilio uses a very granular, pay-for-what-you-use approach.
For text marketing features, prices are based on message type (SMS/MMS), API (Programmable Messaging API or Conversations API), monthly messaging volume, phone number type, and destination country.
You'll get your exact payment after selecting your preferred options for all of this on Twilio’s pricing page.
Twilio charges additional carrier fees and unlike other text messaging platforms, you have to pay for inbound messages/customer replies as well as attempted but failed messages.
Twilio has a forever-free trial plan with limited features. Unused message credits do not roll over.
Twilio provides customer support through web form, phone, live chat, and API status notifications.
Custom plan users also get a dedicated technical account manager.
However, a lot of users (especially those on the lower-tier plans) complain about the unhelpfulness and lack of reliability of Twilio’s customer support.
Poor customer service is also Twilio’s top con on both G2 and Capterra.
Rather than a standalone text messaging platform, Twilio is best used as a tool for enriching your audience's experiences at every touchpoint in their buyer’s journey. And its core features reflect that:
Twilio has 4.2 stars on G2 and 4.4 stars on Capterra.
The major positive reviews are easy integrations and user-friendliness.
The major negative reviews are poor customer support, confusing pricing, and an exhaustive verification process.
“Twilio is functional but unreliable with poor customer support.” Luke C., Capterra
“The support service is terrible. There is no chat support for all customers (you have to pay for this support type in addition to the contracted service). The ticket response time lasts an average of 24 hours. If it's an important issue your company will suffer the consequences. I opened a simple ticket asking to turn off 2FA on my account to migrate the WhatsApp Business Account (WABA). It has been almost a week of messages exchanged and passed from one team to another without any solution to the case.” Verified User, G2
ClickSend is a business communications platform for reaching your customers and staff via SMS, email, rich media, direct mail, voice, etc.
ClickSend operates via a web dashboard, trusted APIs, or integration partners and allows you to build and integrate custom solutions for simplifying your business communications.
ClickSend’s prices are based on the particular tools you use with a pay-as-you-go model and no pricing tiers or contracts.
For SMS/MMS messaging, you pay per credit and your fee depends on the destination country (starting from $0.0087/text). There's an additional monthly carrier fee.
ClickSend offers a discount for bulk SMS sends and unlike Twilio, you don't have to pay for inbound messages or failed texts.
You can test out the tool with their 14-day free trial, and there's also a forever-free plan with limited features.
Unused monthly credits roll over for the next 12 months.
ClickSend provides customer support via live chat, email, and phone.
Their support team is staffed with “real humans 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”
They also have an army of helpful articles in their knowledge base.
ClickSend, like Twilio, allows you to manage communications with your audience across many channels, not just SMS/MMS.
So it has other stand-out features for simplifying this. Features like:
ClickSend has a rating of 4.1 stars on G2 and 4.4 stars on Capterra.
The top positive reviews are ease of use and top-notch customer support.
The most notable negative reviews are expensive pricing (especially for SMS), an outdated platform, and missing/limited SMS features (since it's not an SMS-dedicated platform).
ClickSend users complain about how:
Textla is an SMS marketing tool that positions itself as the most affordable texting service in the market.
It is a native text messaging platform that has transparent “before-you-send” pricing which helps you stay within your SMS marketing budget.
Textla has 3 standard plans that give you access to different levels of platform features.
None of these 3 plans come with texting credits, though, so you have to pay for message credits as an add-on cost at a rate of $0.01/SMS and $0.03/MMS.
Mobile carrier fees are already included in the platform fee and unused credits roll over for a lifetime as long as you don't delete your Textla account. However, you also get charged for incoming texts.
Textla has a 14-day free trial with 100 free credits and you can make annual payments to get 20% off.
Textla provides email and phone support through a human-only support team that's 100% based in the US.
They also have a comprehensive help center where you can search for articles on any platform hiccups.
Textla has many unique features like:
Textla has a 5.0-star rating on both G2 and Capterra.
Users fervently praise its user-friendliness, amazing customer support, and automation.
The only notable negative review is minor SMS issues like the inability to hyperlink in texts.
Some of Textla’s cons include:
“The only minor drawback I've noticed so far is the inability to attach a hyperlink to a word—I have to manually type out the full URL. While there are workarounds, adding this feature in the future would be a great enhancement for usability.” Sebastian, G2
“Nothing so far! At present, it meets all our needs. Perhaps the only thing left to be desired is the ability to text international phone numbers.” Verified User, G2
Textmagic is a business text messaging platform for reaching your audience via channels like SMS, MMS, email, voice calls, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
Textmagic boasts of inter-channel integrations that allow an omnichannel approach to audience engagement.
Textmagic uses flexible usage-based pricing where you can choose to purchase either SMS or email usage or both.
Your SMS/MMS costs depend on the destination country, monthly SMS volume, and business number type.
Prices start at $40.50/month to send 500 messages to US-based customers from a toll-free number.
After you sign up for a plan, you can choose to pay extra for other Textmagic features.
Textmagic charges additional monthly carrier fees and a monthly 10 DLC campaign renewal fees apply for local US numbers.
Your prepaid credits roll over indefinitely unless your account has been inactive for 24 months in which case it'll be closed. You can also request a refund for unused credits.
You can test out Textmagic using its free trial to see if it's the right fit for your business.
Textmagic’s support team can be reached 24/7 via live chat, web support form, email, or phone call.
They promise to reply on the same working day, and if possible in minutes, but you can access help articles via their help center while you await a response.
Users (especially those outside of US time zones) complain about Textmagic customer support being poor.
“Customer service based overseas so responses can be challenging.” David B., G2
Textmagic has sleek inter-channel integrations like:
Textmagic has 4.3 stars on G2 and 4.6 stars on Capterra.
Most of the reviews are positive and reflect Textmagic’s ease of use and robust integrations.
The most notable negative reviews are poor customer support and high costs.
Textmagic’s major con is its high costs compared to other alternatives, especially if you just need a tool for SMS marketing without the bells and whistles of other communication channels.
“It’s limited and expensive compared to the competition.” Ben H., G2
Text-Em-All is a simple texting platform for quickly sending messages to groups of people. For example, sending meeting reminders, emergency notifications, and text surveys.
Text-Em-All gets your account up and running in minutes and promises 95% deliverability and robust SMS tracking features.
Text-Em-All has 3 plans: Free, Monthly, and Credit.
The free plan gives 25 free credits and allows you to test Text-Em-All before you start paying.
However, it has very limited features and you might need to upgrade your account to truly understand the platform.
The monthly plan is best for people who want to message the same group of people multiple times a week and its tiers depend on the number of phone numbers you message. However, it has some feature restrictions like no auto-replies and no SMS keyword replies.
If you don't have a set messaging frequency OR if you want to message different audience segments weekly, the credits plan allows you to pay per message sent. This plan also gives you access to the platform's full features.
Text-Em-All doesn't charge additional carrier fees and credits are only deducted for successfully delivered messages. Also, credits roll over for a lifetime.
Most users pay monthly but you can pay every 3, 6, or 12 months. There's no free trial.
Text-Em-All’s Texas-based customer support is available via email, call, or text between 8am-5pm CST on Mondays to Fridays.
They also have FAQs and a Help Docs center.
Text-Em-All thrives best with mass texting selected groups of people. Features that help it thrive at group texting are:
Text-Em-All has 4.7 stars on Capterra and 4.8 stars on G2.
The top positive reviews are simplicity and easy communication with customers.
The top negative reviews are high costs, character limits, and feature issues.
“What I dislike about Text-Em-All is how fast the call credits add up, especially for large groups. The service works great, but it would be better if the costs were lower or if there were cheaper options for frequent users.” Derek O., G2
“I wish we had more characters to send longer messages within our plan. Because we are a non-profit it's difficult to upgrade our plan as we are government funded through grants. I also wish special characters were not extra credits as it is not cost-effective to communicate with our Spanish-speaking contacts in a grammatically correct manner (using accents and other special characters).” Cynthia P., G2
The most important factor when switching to another SMS platform is your trigger for considering an alternative.
You can use platforms like G2 and Capterra to compare options and browse user sentiments so you can make the right purchase decision.
Here are some questions business owners frequently ask when considering a SimpleTexting alternative.
SimpleTexting users currently abandon it due to high costs, lack of pricing transparency, poor customer support, and feature issues.
When evaluating available options, prioritize these features to choose a tool that’ll serve your text messaging needs to the fullest.
Not if you choose the right alternative.
Tools like Mobile Text Alerts provide free, personalized migration support when you sign up. You would normally be able to import your entire contact list without losing a single number.
The most affordable SimpleTexting alternative depends on the features you need and the number of messages you send monthly.
Generally, tools like Mobile Text Alerts and Textedly have plans that start at $20-$25 per month.
Some tools, like Twilio, offer tiered customer support and might leave you stuck if you are not a high-end user. So, go where you can get good support even if you are not paying top dollar.
Tools like Mobile Text Alerts and Omnisend offer equal, personalized, and reliable support so you can maximize your SMS marketing investment.
Mobile Text Alerts is our text messaging solution for businesses burnt out from high SMS costs, unintuitive SMS platforms, or poor SMS marketing support.
We offer affordable, tiered pricing, human-only support, and a platform customers describe as “great and simple”.
Sign up for our 14-day free trial (with full features included) so you can be a witness to all our claims.
Aishat Abdulfatah writes thought leadership content for B2B SaaS brands that have unique insights to share.
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