Messenger vs textPlus: Text Message + Call
Messenger
Meta Platforms, Inc.
App Store
$823.5K/mo
~$9.88M/yr · 1.2B installs
VS
textPlus: Text Message + Call
textPlus
Google Play
$1.52M/mo
~$18.19M/yr · 60.0M installs
Revenue winner
textPlus: Text Message + Call wins
+84% vs other
Installs winner
Messenger wins
+1826% vs other
MAU winner
Messenger wins
+231% vs other
Rating winner
Messenger wins
+14% vs other
Why textPlus: Text Message + Call is winning
Top 2 reasons - backed by the public App Store / Play Store numbers.
- textPlus: Text Message + Call earns roughly 2× more per month than Messenger - $1.52M vs $823.5K.
- Premium pricing. textPlus: Text Message + Call charges $6.67/mo vs Messenger's $0.99/mo - higher ARPU per converted user.
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Side-by-side metrics
Bars scale to whichever app is bigger on that row. Green = winner.
Messenger
vs
textPlus: Text Message + Call
Monthly revenue (est.)?
$823.5K
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$1.52M
Annual revenue (est.)
$9.88M
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$18.19M
Lifetime installs (est.)
1.2B
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60.0M
Monthly active users (est.)?
25.4M
◀
7.7M
App Store rating
4.66★
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4.09★
Total ratings
12.8M
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542K
US grossing rank
-
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Cheapest monthly sub
$0.99
▶
$6.67
IAP tiers detected
1 tiers
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0 tiers
- Category
- Social Networking
- Price
- Free
- Released
- Aug 9, 2011
- Last updated
- Jun 24, 2026
- File size
- 234.6 MB
- Content rating
- 12+
- Version
- 567.0.0
- Languages
- Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish +23 more
- Category
- Social
- Price
- Free
- Released
- -
- Last updated
- May 21, 2026
- File size
- -
- Content rating
- Everyone
- Version
- 8.3.5
- Languages
- -
Messenger trajectory
textPlus: Text Message + Call trajectory
FAQ
Which makes more money, Messenger or textPlus: Text Message + Call? v
textPlus: Text Message + Call earns about $1.52M per month, while Messenger earns about $823.5K. That is a 1.8× revenue gap (~$692.7K more per month for textPlus: Text Message + Call). Annual revenue: Messenger ≈ $9.88M/year, textPlus: Text Message + Call ≈ $18.19M/year. Estimates are derived from public App Store / Google Play signals - grossing rank, scraped IAP tiers, ratings and category benchmarks.
Which has more downloads, Messenger or textPlus: Text Message + Call? v
Messenger leads with about 1.2B estimated downloads vs 60.0M for textPlus: Text Message + Call - a 19.3× gap. Messenger's App Store downloads are estimated from 12.8M ratings × the standard 1:75 ratio. textPlus: Text Message + Call reports 50,000,000+ installs on Google Play.
Are Messenger and textPlus: Text Message + Call in the same App Store category on each store and competing for the same money? v
No - Messenger is in Social Networking and textPlus: Text Message + Call is in Social. They share screen-time attention but earn money in different niches: Messenger from social networking monetization patterns, textPlus: Text Message + Call from social.
What in-app purchases and subscription pricing do Messenger and textPlus: Text Message + Call offer? v
Messenger: IAP range 1 tiers detected. textPlus: Text Message + Call: IAP range $0.99 - $44.99 per item. Messenger runs a "Subscription (~$0.99/mo)" monetization model; textPlus: Text Message + Call runs "Subscription (~$6.67/mo)". Scraped tier prices and detected subscription pricing drive the bulk of the per-app revenue estimate above.
Which has better ratings, Messenger or textPlus: Text Message + Call? v
Messenger edges ahead with ★ 4.7 vs ★ 4.1 (gap of 0.6 stars). Rating volume: Messenger 12.8M ratings, textPlus: Text Message + Call 100K ratings. Higher rating volume = stronger ASO signal even when star averages are close.
How accurate are these Messenger vs textPlus: Text Message + Call revenue estimates? v
Directional - typically within 2-3× of actual money earned for popular apps. The $823.5K for Messenger and $1.52M for textPlus: Text Message + Call are derived from App Store grossing rank / Google Play install ranges, scraped IAP tiers, ratings volume and category benchmarks (Social Networking / Social) - net of the 15-30% Apple/Google store cut. Real revenue depends on country mix, retention, refunds and ad fill rate, none of which Apple or Google publish.
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