httpSMS and SMS Mobile App
How httpSMS and SMS Mobile App compare, with the source and date of each fact.
An open-source Android companion app and hosted API that sends and receives SMS through your phone, priced by messages a month.
Last checked 7 November 2026. Check httpSMS's own page
Who httpSMS suits better
Choose httpSMS if you want an API with scheduling, a send rate you set per phone and offline alerts, and a few thousand messages a month fits its plans.
Who SMS Mobile App suits better
Choose SMS Mobile App if you send to Pakistani numbers from a dashboard rather than code, want no monthly message cap on Pro, and want a dual-SIM phone to rotate its SIMs on its own.
What it costs
Our plans
- Free: $0
- Pro: $9.99 a month
- Family: $8 per seat a month, at least 3 seats
Your carrier's SMS rate applies on top of any plan. See what each plan includes
Side by side
| What you might need | httpSMS | SMS Mobile App |
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| Sends from your own SIM | Yes (their page) | Yes |
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| An Android phone is the sender | Yes (their page) | Yes |
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| Web dashboard | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| HTTP API for your own software | Yes (their page) | No |
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| Receives replies | Yes (their page) | No |
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| Several phones on one account | Yes (their page) | Yes |
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| Dual-SIM rotation | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Send-rate control | Yes (their page) | Yes |
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| Scheduled sending | Yes (their page) | Partly |
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| Delivery reports | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Spreadsheet recipient import | Yes (their page) | Yes |
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| Message templates | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Open source | Yes (their page) | No |
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| Free tier | Yes (their page) | Yes |
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| No per-message platform fee | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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What SMS Mobile App will not do
- Pakistani mobile numbers only. Foreign numbers, landlines and short codes are refused, with the reason.
- Each SIM has daily and hourly caps. A SIM starts at 150 messages a day and can rise to 400 as delivery reports come back. Its hourly cap is a fifth of that, 30 to 80, and a job waits at least 30 seconds between sends. The Free plan stops at 100 messages a month.
- No HTTP API. Other software cannot send through it, so OTP codes and automated sends from your own system are not available.
- Your SIM and carrier decide the rest. Whether a message arrives depends on them, and their SMS rate is yours to pay on top of any plan.
- What you send stays your responsibility. The rules where you are, and whether those people agreed to hear from you, are not something the app can check.
Moving across
How to move from httpSMS to SMS Mobile App
Download the Android app. A signed APK from our own site. It is not on Google Play.
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