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BlueBot or Texting Blue?
Texting Blue sends from your own number through your iPhone and a connected device, with a shared team inbox in the browser and an API.
BlueBot sends from your own number through Messages on your own Mac and costs $17.99 a month. We read every fact below on Texting Blue’s own pages on November 13, 2026, and each one links to where we read it.
- BlueBot
- $17.99$17.99 a month, plus tax where it applies, after a 7-day trial.BlueBot pricing
- Texting Blue
- $19$19 a month per number (100 messages a day, text only).Texting Blue pricing
Side by side
How the two compare
| BlueBot | Texting Blue | |
|---|---|---|
| Price a month | ||
| Model | A Mac app that sends through Messages on your own Mac. | Your own iPhone with a connected device. |
| Whose number | Yours. | Yours. |
| API | Yes A REST API with an idempotency key on every POST, metadata echoed on every webhook and a page for every error code. BlueBot API reference | |
| Webhooks | Signed, retried Signed to the Standard Webhooks scheme and retried with backoff for 72 hours, with a log of every delivery that you can replay. BlueBot webhooks | Yes Events for texts received, sent and failed. The delivered event needs the Standard plan, which is coming soon. Texting Blue docs |
| Zapier | Its own app BlueBot’s own Zapier app has a Send Text action and instant triggers for incoming texts and every change of state. BlueBot for Zapier | Not found Its site lists Zapier beside Make and its API, but we found no Zapier app. Texting Blue’s site |
| MCP | Hosted, OAuth Hosted, and an assistant signs in with OAuth, so there’s no key to paste. BlueBot MCP server |
Price a month
- Texting Blue
Model
- Texting Blue
Your own iPhone with a connected device.
Whose number
- Texting Blue
Yours.
API
- Texting Blue
Webhooks
- Texting Blue
- Yes
Events for texts received, sent and failed. The delivered event needs the Standard plan, which is coming soon.
Texting Blue docs
Zapier
- Texting Blue
- Not found
Its site lists Zapier beside Make and its API, but we found no Zapier app.
Texting Blue’s site
MCP
- Texting Blue
“Not found” means we looked on Texting Blue’s site and in its docs and didn’t find it, though it may still exist. Everything a Mac can and can’t do through BlueBot is on .
Pricing
What Texting Blue charges
Lite: $19 per number a month, with 100 messages a day, text only, 5 messages a minute, the API, webhooks and unlimited team members. Texting Blue’s site
Standard and Business are coming soon. There’s a 3-day trial. Texting Blue’s site
Strengths
Each one is better at something.
Where Texting Blue is better
It runs from your iPhone rather than a Mac.
A shared team inbox with roles, an audit trail and unlimited team members. A BlueBot account is one sign-in. Texting Blue’s site
Where BlueBot is better
Pictures, files, voice memos and contact cards. Texting Blue’s Lite plan is text only. Texting Blue’s site
Up to 1,000 texts a day. Texting Blue’s Lite plan allows 100. Texting Blue’s site
Delivered events today. Texting Blue’s delivered event waits for a plan that’s coming soon. Texting Blue docs
A Zapier app and a hosted MCP server. We found neither for Texting Blue. Texting Blue docs
Who should pick which
Which one to pick
Texting Blue
Pick Texting Blue if you have no Mac, or a small team shares one number and needs roles and an audit trail.
Try it on your own number.
You need a card to start the trial. After 7 days it’s $17.99 a month plus any tax, and you can cancel from your billing page at any time.