Honest Comparison

Best Mass Text Apps for iPhone (2026): 5 Compared

TL;DR

The best mass text app for iPhone is FollowUp when you are texting customers or leads, and Quick Send (4.7 stars from 731 App Store ratings) or Hit Em Up (4.6 from 4.9K) when you are texting friends, a team or a club. FollowUp sends one personalized 1:1 iMessage per person from your own number, keeps every text you send on the contact, with a pipeline, and is free with no cap on contacts. Hit Em Up, Quick Send and BCC Text also say they send from your own number and personalize with names; Group Text personalizes on premium only. For three or four people, Messages by hand or a free Apple Shortcut is enough.

The five apps at a glance

1. FollowUp

App Store: 5.0 from 6 ratings (new)
Price: Free: no cap on contacts, no card. Blasts are free your first 7 days, then 2 a month. Up to 200 people in any 24 hours on every plan. Plus is $29 a month.
Personalizes: Yes. Blasts to 10 or more people need at least two tokens, like {firstName} and {streetName}.
Best for: Customers and leads you'll follow up with: every text you send is saved on the contact, with a pipeline.

2. Hit Em Up

App Store: 4.6 from 4.9K ratings
Price: Free download, with paid monthly or yearly memberships.
Personalizes: Yes, with name inserts.
Best for: Personal and social outreach. It adds AI-written drafts and scheduled messages.

3. Quick Send

App Store: 4.7 from 731 ratings
Price: Free download. Quick Send Pro is a weekly, monthly or yearly subscription.
Personalizes: Yes: first name, last name and time fields.
Best for: Quick personal updates to saved groups of contacts.

4. BCC Text

App Store: 4.3 from 154 ratings
Price: Free download, with in-app purchases.
Personalizes: Yes, with first-name tokens.
Best for: Sending through Messages, Google Voice or WhatsApp, with CSV import and Shortcuts automation.

5. Group Text

App Store: 4.3 from 5.9K ratings
Price: The free version sends to 5 contacts at once. Premium, an in-app purchase, lifts that.
Personalizes: Premium only: first name, last name and company.
Best for: Big saved groups you can split, once you pay for premium.

Quick verdict: who should pick which

Choose FollowUp if

You're texting customers or leads, not just friends
You want every text you send saved on the contact, with a pipeline, not just a sent list
You want to start free, with no cap on contacts and no card
You may want a business number, missed-call text-back and AI that sorts replies later (Plus, $29 a month)

Look elsewhere if

Friends, a team or a club, with nothing to follow up → Quick Send or Hit Em Up
Some contacts live on Google Voice or WhatsApp → BCC Text
Three or four people → Messages by hand, or a free Apple Shortcut
Opted-in marketing broadcasts to thousands from a business number → an SMS platform such as SimpleTexting

Feature comparison

Feature	FollowUp	Alternatives
Separate 1:1 texts from your own number	Yes, as iMessages; contacts without iMessage get a normal text	Hit Em Up, Quick Send and BCC Text say so in their listings
Personalization	Yes, and required on blasts to 10 or more people (two tokens)	All four; Group Text only on premium
Free to start	No cap on contacts, no card. Blasts are free your first 7 days, then 2 a month	All four are free to download with paid upgrades; Group Text free sends to 5 at once
After you send	Each text is saved on the contact, and the contact sits in a pipeline	Built around sending: contact groups (Hit Em Up, Quick Send, Group Text), message templates (Hit Em Up, BCC Text, Group Text); Hit Em Up and Group Text also schedule sends
App Store rating (Nov 4, 2026)	5.0 from 6 ratings	Quick Send 4.7 (731), Hit Em Up 4.6 (4.9K), BCC Text 4.3 (154), Group Text 4.3 (5.9K)

When to use each

FollowUp

Pick FollowUp when the list is people you are selling to or serving: leads from the doors, past customers, open-house sign-ins. Write the message once with tokens like {firstName}, pick the contacts, and fire each personal 1:1 iMessage in seconds. FollowUp keeps who you texted and where each person sits in your pipeline, so the blast starts the follow-up instead of ending it.

The alternatives

Pick Quick Send or Hit Em Up for a team, league or friend group where nobody needs following up; both are well reviewed and quick to set up. BCC Text fits when some contacts live on Google Voice or WhatsApp. Group Text has the most ratings, but its free version stops at 5 contacts at once. For three or four people, Messages by hand or the free Apple Shortcuts loop is genuinely enough.

Pricing

FollowUp's Free plan has no cap on contacts and needs no credit card. iMessage blasts are free your first 7 days, then you keep 2 free blasts a month, for good. Plus is $29 a month and adds your own business number, missed-call text-back and AI that sorts replies. The other four are free to download: Hit Em Up and Quick Send sell subscriptions, BCC Text and Group Text sell in-app upgrades, and Group Text's free version sends to 5 contacts at once. Apple Shortcuts is free and built in, but its basic loop sends everyone the same text unless you wire in a first name yourself.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best mass text app for iPhone?

For texting customers or leads, FollowUp: it sends personalized 1:1 iMessages from your own number, saves every text you send on the contact with a pipeline, and Free has no cap on contacts. For friends, teams and clubs, Quick Send (4.7 stars from 731 App Store ratings) and Hit Em Up (4.6 from 4.9K) are the best reviewed. All of them send separate texts, so nobody lands in a group chat.

Is there a free mass text app for iPhone?

Yes. FollowUp's Free plan includes iMessage blasts from your own number with no cap on contacts and no credit card: blasts are free your first 7 days, then 2 a month, for good. Hit Em Up, Quick Send, BCC Text and Group Text are free to download with paid upgrades, and Group Text's free version sends to 5 contacts at once. Apple Shortcuts is free, but its basic loop sends everyone the same text unless you wire in a first name yourself, and nothing records who got what.

How do I mass text on iPhone without a group chat?

Use an app that sends each person a separate 1:1 text, or build an Apple Shortcuts loop with Select Contacts, Repeat with Each and Send Message. Messages on its own only does one person or a group chat. Our guide to texting multiple people individually on iPhone walks through all three ways.

Do mass text apps send from my own number?

FollowUp, Hit Em Up, Quick Send and BCC Text all say they do. With FollowUp, iPhones get a blue iMessage and Android phones get a normal text, both from your number. Business texting platforms are different: they send from a rented number that needs A2P 10DLC registration in the US.

Is a group text app the same as a mass text app?

No. A group chat app puts everyone in one shared conversation, so everyone sees every reply. A mass text app sends the same message to each person as a separate 1:1 text, so replies come back only to you. Apps named "group text" can be either, so check whether it creates a group chat before you send to clients.

How many people can I mass text a day from my iPhone with FollowUp?

Up to 200 people in any 24 hours from one iPhone, on every plan, with a heads-up at 150. FollowUp holds each user to that so a big send does not put your Apple ID at risk. Your contact list itself has no cap.

Will people know it was a mass text?

Not if it's personal. Each person gets their own thread, and with their name and a detail that's theirs it reads like a text you typed. FollowUp requires at least two personalization tokens on any blast to 10 or more people for exactly that reason.

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Free has no cap on contacts and sends from your own number. No credit card required.

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