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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

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

BlueBot and Texting Blue, fact by fact
	BlueBot	Texting Blue
Price a month	$17.99 $17.99 a month, plus tax where it applies, after a 7-day trial. BlueBot pricing	$19 $19 a month per number (100 messages a day, text only). Texting Blue pricing
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	Yes A REST API with scoped keys and 60 requests a minute on Lite. Texting Blue 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 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	Not found We found no MCP server on its site or in its docs. Texting Blue docs

Price a month

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

Model

BlueBot: A Mac app that sends through Messages on your own Mac.
Texting Blue: Your own iPhone with a connected device.

Whose number

BlueBot: Yours.
Texting Blue: Yours.

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
Texting Blue: Yes
A REST API with scoped keys and 60 requests a minute on Lite.
Texting Blue 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
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

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
Texting Blue: Not found
Its site lists Zapier beside Make and its API, but we found no Zapier app.
Texting Blue’s site

MCP

BlueBot: Hosted, OAuth
Hosted, and an assistant signs in with OAuth, so there’s no key to paste.
BlueBot MCP server
Texting Blue: Not found
We found no MCP server on its site or in its docs.
Texting Blue docs

“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 one page of the docs.

Pricing

What Texting Blue charges

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

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.

BlueBot

Pick BlueBot if you have a Mac that stays on and want pictures and files, more than 100 texts a day, Zapier and Claude.

Try it on your own number.

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