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BlueBot or Blooio?

Blooio sells shared and dedicated hosted lines for iMessage, SMS and RCS, and is now an Apple Messages for Business provider too. It has the most detailed sending limits we found, and a native HighLevel integration.

BlueBot sends from your own number through Messages on your own Mac and costs $17.99 a month. We read every fact below on Blooio’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
Blooio: $39$39 to $289 a month (shared or dedicated), $389 Enterprise.Blooio pricing

Side by side

How the two compare

Each answer says what we found and links to the page we found it on. Checked November 13, 2026.

BlueBot and Blooio, fact by fact
	BlueBot	Blooio
Price a month	$17.99 $17.99 a month, plus tax where it applies, after a 7-day trial. BlueBot pricing	$39 $39 to $289 a month (shared or dedicated), $389 Enterprise. Blooio pricing
Model	A Mac app that sends through Messages on your own Mac.	Hosted iMessage, SMS and RCS.
Whose number	Yours.	A shared or dedicated Blooio line.
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	Yes Two API versions, v2 for iMessage and v4 for every channel, with idempotency keys. Blooio API docs
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, signed Signed with an HMAC, with dated payload versions, a deliveries log, replay and secret rotation. Blooio 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	Yes One trigger, New Event Received, and two actions, Send Message and Check Contact Capabilities. Blooio for Zapier
MCP	Hosted, OAuth Hosted, and an assistant signs in with OAuth, so there’s no key to paste. BlueBot MCP server	Hosted Hosted at mcp.blooio.com, signing in with OAuth or a key, with one-click install for Cursor and VS Code. Blooio MCP

Price a month

BlueBot: $17.99
$17.99 a month, plus tax where it applies, after a 7-day trial.
BlueBot pricing
Blooio: $39
$39 to $289 a month (shared or dedicated), $389 Enterprise.
Blooio pricing

Model

BlueBot: A Mac app that sends through Messages on your own Mac.
Blooio: Hosted iMessage, SMS and RCS.

Whose number

BlueBot: Yours.
Blooio: A shared or dedicated Blooio line.

API

BlueBot: 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
Blooio: Yes
Two API versions, v2 for iMessage and v4 for every channel, with idempotency keys.
Blooio API docs

Webhooks

BlueBot: 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
Blooio: Yes, signed
Signed with an HMAC, with dated payload versions, a deliveries log, replay and secret rotation.
Blooio docs

Zapier

BlueBot: 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
Blooio: Yes
One trigger, New Event Received, and two actions, Send Message and Check Contact Capabilities.
Blooio for Zapier

MCP

BlueBot: Hosted, OAuth
Hosted, and an assistant signs in with OAuth, so there’s no key to paste.
BlueBot MCP server
Blooio: Hosted
Hosted at mcp.blooio.com, signing in with OAuth or a key, with one-click install for Cursor and VS Code.
Blooio MCP

“Not found” means we looked on Blooio’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 one page of the docs.

Pricing

What Blooio charges

We read these on Blooio’s own pages on November 13, 2026. BlueBot has one plan: $17.99 a month after a 7-day trial, plus any tax.

A free trial of 20 messages. Starter: $39 a month on a shared line, with 5 new contacts a day. Commercial Shared: $89, with 15 a day. Blooio pricing
Commercial Dedicated: $289 a month per line, listed as unlimited. Inbound, for reply-only AI agents: $98. Enterprise Dedicated: $389 a line, falling to $195 a line at 6 or more. Blooio pricing
Every plan includes unlimited team members, signed webhooks with replay, reactions, typing, read receipts and MCP. Blooio pricing

Strengths

Each one is better at something.

Where Blooio is better

Hosted lines, plus typing indicators, sending tapbacks and RCS.

It reaches people on RCS and WhatsApp as well as iMessage and SMS. Blooio docs
It sends typing indicators, tapbacks, polls and Markdown rich text, and starts group chats. Blooio docs
It works inside HighLevel as a native conversation provider. Blooio for HighLevel
Every plan has unlimited team members. A BlueBot account is one sign-in. Blooio pricing

Where BlueBot is better

$17.99 a month for your own number. Blooio’s cheapest paid plan is $39 a month on a shared line, and a dedicated line is $289. Blooio pricing
You set how many new people you text a day, starting at 50. Blooio’s $39 plan allows 5 new contacts a day. Blooio pricing
Texts come from your own number, the one people already have saved, and BlueBot sees the messages you type by hand on your Mac or iPhone too. A hosted line sees only what goes through it. What a Mac can and can’t do

Who should pick which

Which one to pick

Blooio

Pick Blooio if you want hosted lines with RCS and WhatsApp, a HighLevel inbox, or a team working several numbers.

BlueBot

Pick BlueBot if you’d rather text from your own number at a pace you set, for less than Blooio’s cheapest paid plan.

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