Group Text!
Description of App
With Group Text! you can easily send SMS to groups, to handpicked set of contacts or to distribution lists. Once you create a list, you no longer have to select contacts one-by-one for a group message. Simply tap on the list or group name and you are ready to send! And if you need to send the same message many times, just save it as a template and pick it later to auto populate the text of your message.
Group Text! uses your text plan to send messages and replies are received on the iPhone Messages application as usual.
Features:
- send mass text messages
- easy and quick interface
- use address book groups;
- handpick set of contacts from address book
- select / deselect single recipients in groups and lists
- create and manage distribution lists from address book or manually entering recipients information
- distribution lists are very useful if you have contacts with more than one phone number or if you don't want to create groups only to group text them
- optionally create and use message templates
- setting to show all or only mobile numbers
- optional char counter
- save or load recipients from / to csv documents
- exchange csv documents by E-Mail or iTunes
- print lists (iOS4.2 and supported printer required)
- iPhone 4 retina display ready
- visually impaired users can fully control the app with VoiceOver+
Note: the app can't use your existing groups when syncing with Exchange. You can however create lists in the app and use them.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR AT&T USERS:
If you're experiencing issues sending to large groups and you're on AT&T, check the setting of "Group Messaging" on the iPhone settings. It has to be OFF (yes OFF) to be able to send to large groups. If it's on the iPhone will try to send MMS instead of SMS and will fail to send to large groups.
Accessibility Comments
This is a very accessible app that works well with VoiceOver. The developer has paid explicit attention to VoiceOver support, and it shows. There are no apparent issues.