Twilio and SMS Mobile App
How Twilio and SMS Mobile App compare, with the source and date of each fact.
A hosted messaging API that sends through leased numbers and charges per message segment by destination.
Last checked 7 November 2026. Check Twilio's own page
Who Twilio suits better
Choose Twilio if your software must send at any volume to many countries from a leased number, with carrier handling and delivery insight built in.
Who SMS Mobile App suits better
Choose SMS Mobile App if your people are in Pakistan and you would rather pay a flat plan and your carrier's rate than a per-message price, with your own number on every message.
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 | Twilio | SMS Mobile App |
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| Sends from your own SIM | No (their page) | Yes |
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| An Android phone is the sender | Not stated on the pages we checked | 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 | Not stated on the pages we checked | No |
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| Several phones on one account | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Dual-SIM rotation | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Send-rate control | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Scheduled sending | Yes (their page) | Partly |
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| Delivery reports | Yes (their page) | Yes |
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| Spreadsheet recipient import | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Message templates | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
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| Open source | Not stated on the pages we checked | No |
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| Free tier | Partly (their page) | Yes |
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| No per-message platform fee | No (their page) | 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 Twilio 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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