# Mobile Text Alerts review (2026): is it worth $36 a month, billed yearly?

> SMS marketing and alerts with campaigns, a 2-way inbox and API

Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Mobile Text Alerts is a business texting service for mass texts, automations, two-way conversations and subscriber sign-up tools such as keywords, QR codes and web forms. Plans are sold by monthly message credits. It has a web dashboard and iOS and Android apps, and it lists Zapier and a custom API for integrations.

- **Category:** SMS & Chat Marketing
- **Made by:** Mobile Text Alerts
- **Website:** https://mobile-text-alerts.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you want the API: Professional, from $500 a month.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, Mobile Text Alerts is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $36 per month for 1,000 credits, billed annually.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial with 50 messages and a dedicated toll-free number; no card needed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Core | $36 per month for 1,000 credits, billed annually | Unlimited keywords and users, iMessage sending and MCP server access. Extra messages $0.04 each. Monthly price is not shown. |
| Professional | $500 per month and up, billed annually | For up to 1 million messages a month. Adds API access, a launch specialist, branded short links and priority support. |
| Enterprise | Custom | For over 1 million messages a month, with a dedicated account manager, custom reporting, Slack and a 5-digit short code. |

Read from https://mobile-text-alerts.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Mobile Text Alerts before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **20% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page toggle labeled Annual pricing (save 20%) shows the yearly-billed prices used here. Source: https://mobile-text-alerts.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Campaigns and automations:** Mass texts, message scheduling and automations, with reports and analytics, available even in the free trial.
- **Subscriber sign-up tools:** Text-to-join keywords, automatic QR codes, web sign-up forms and spreadsheet import for building a list.
- **Two-way inbox:** A 2-way messaging inbox for one-to-one replies, with contact grouping and unlimited groups.
- **Dashboard and mobile app:** A web dashboard plus an iOS and Android app for sending and managing the account away from a desk.
- **Integrations and API:** Zapier connects to 5,000-plus apps; Professional plans add API access for custom integrations.

## Good for

- Small businesses starting with 1,000 messages a month
- Teams that want QR code and keyword sign-ups

## Worth knowing

- The 1 SMS to the US or Canada costs 1 credit and an MMS costs 3; international rates vary.
- The API is only on Professional and above, which start at $500 a month.
- Unused messages roll over for one month on monthly plans; on annual plans they do not roll over.
- Only the annual price is shown by default; the page offers a 20% annual saving but not a monthly figure.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Mobile Text Alerts sells texting by monthly credits, from $36 a month billed annually for 1,000 credits, with a 14-day trial and no card. But the API starts on a $500 plan, and the monthly price isn't shown.

- **Value for money: C.** $36 a month on annual billing for 1,000 credits, the middle of the category.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day trial with 50 messages and no card, and no free plan.
- **Features: C.** Campaigns, keywords, a two-way inbox and sign-up tools, with the API held back for $500 a month and up.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and keywords and sign-up tools need setting up.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Zapier and a custom API; no desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Mobile Text Alerts's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among SMS and chat marketing tools

- Mobile Text Alerts's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 47 of the 77 other SMS and chat marketing tools we grade, and level with 20.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 19 of 77) and worst on features (C, above 3).
- Its paid plans start at $36 a month, against a middle price of $36 for the category: 24 of the 50 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 4 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/chat-marketing

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Mobile Text Alerts you would be making texts to thousands of numbers, registered with the carriers. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $432 a year.

- You could make: QR codes: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Texts to thousands of numbers, registered with the carriers.
- You could not: Email sent in volume that still reaches the inbox.
- You could not: Texts from a business number, registered with the carriers.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Zapier and Slack among them, and has an API.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Zapier, Slack

**Tags:** SMS marketing, Business texting, Marketing automation, Public API, QR codes

## Alternatives

- [SimpleTexting](https://toolgpa.com/tools/simpletexting): SMS marketing and two-way texting priced by monthly message credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mobile-text-alerts-vs-simpletexting)
- [SlickText](https://toolgpa.com/tools/slicktext): SMS marketing with workflows and popups, every feature on every plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mobile-text-alerts-vs-slicktext)
- [EZ Texting](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ez-texting): SMS, MMS and RCS marketing for US and Canadian businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ez-texting-vs-mobile-text-alerts)
- [Textedly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/textedly): Mass texting with every feature on every plan, priced by volume. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mobile-text-alerts-vs-textedly)
- [TXT180](https://toolgpa.com/tools/txt180): Low-cost US text message marketing with a reseller program. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mobile-text-alerts-vs-txt180)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026:

- https://mobile-text-alerts.com/pricing

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/mobile-text-alerts
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