Compare the Top Messaging Apps for iPad as of February 2026

What are Messaging Apps for iPad?

Messaging software enables users to send, receive, and manage instant text, voice, or multimedia communications across devices and platforms. It supports real-time conversations through one-on-one chats, group messages, and channels, often including features like file sharing, emojis, and read receipts. Many messaging tools integrate with email, calendars, and other productivity apps to streamline workflows and collaboration. With encryption and security measures, messaging software ensures that communications remain private and protected. Ultimately, it facilitates efficient and seamless communication for personal, team, or business use. Compare and read user reviews of the best Messaging apps for iPad currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Brosix

    Brosix

    Brosix

    Brosix Instant Messenger (IM) supports businesses to streamline and secure their team communication through private team communication networks. Brosix provides businesses with all of the tools they need to increase team productivity in one user friendly and fully encrypted platform, including file transfer, screen sharing, group and private chat, virtual whiteboard and more. Brosix IM’s private networks help businesses to increase team collaboration and efficiency, reduce overhead, and guarantee data privacy. Team networks take just minutes to set up, so businesses can immediately begin reaping the benefits of their all-in-one, and fully administrable communication network.
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    Starting Price: $4 per month
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    Troop Messenger

    Troop Messenger

    Troop Messenger

    Troop Messenger – a comprehensive instant messaging app for businesses-small to giant. Troop Messenger is a user-friendly office chat app compact with contemporary features addressing your business needs and necessities. Upgrade your team communication to the next level. Collaborate on a single screen. Pick the best for your business and experience the difference. Join your voices at one single interface to discuss work better! Communicate your work and get things done faster with instant one-on-one messaging, voice-video calling and many more. Manage your daily project tasks and their updates with beautifully organized groups. Quickly discover what you want! Be it people, groups, files, and work. Share ideas, work deliverables, and project updates through images, videos, and files! Make your clients, customers, and vendors as Troop mates to grow business.
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    Starting Price: $2.5 per user per month
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    Zoho Cliq
    Zoho Cliq is a business communication software that helps simplify and streamline your communication with organized conversations and information that's easy to find. Cliq is designed to enable a hybrid work style, where you can log in to work through any device from anywhere. This helps improve your team's overall productivity and, in turn, impacts the performance of your business positively.
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    Starting Price: $2
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    Zoom Team Chat

    Zoom Team Chat

    Zoom Communications

    Connect your teams and streamline communications. Included with your Zoom license is Zoom Team Chat. Helping your teams stay connected. Streamline your teams with chat and video meetings. Make collaboration easier between teams and external participants with enterprise chat and instant video meetings. Power modern and efficient team communication. Create a virtual workspace where all the right people for every project are ready to collaborate. Organize your communications chaos. Save time by quickly finding messages, content, and links related to your conversations and projects. Start a meeting with any 1:1 or group channel. Zoom meetings scale up to 1,000 people with clear video, audio and screen sharing. Communicate in public or private channels organized by projects, teams, or topics. Share files, emojis, screenshots, and more. Quickly find contacts, messages, and files, keeping knowledge and information at your fingertips. Calendar integrations sync status and presence.
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    iMessage
    Stay connected to the conversations that matter the most. Send texts, photos, videos, and more. Use Messages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Then personalize your messages with animated effects, pin your important conversations, send inline replies, and add mentions. With Messages in iOS 14, you can pin up to nine conversations. When you pin a conversation it shows up at the top of the Messages app, so it's easy to get to. With iOS 13 and later, and iPadOS, You can share your name and photo when you start or respond to a new message. You can use a Memoji, or a custom image for your photo. Messages is the text-messaging software included with your Mac. Use it to send messages with iMessage, or to send SMS and MMS messages through your iPhone. With Messages for Mac, you can send unlimited messages to any Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that uses iMessage, Apple's secure-messaging service. iPhone owners can use it for SMS and MMS messages, too.
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    Element

    Element

    Element

    Element is a secure communications platform built on Matrix: a decentralised and end-to-end encrypted protocol. Bring your teams together, boost productivity and workplace satisfaction, while retaining complete ownership of your data. Element is a leader in the Forrester Wave: Secure Communications report. Easily collaborate with your partners, suppliers or clients with video calls and instant messaging: like email for the 21st century. You can even connect your Slack, MS Teams, WhatsApp accounts. On the other hand Element can be closed for high security environments using secure border and cross domain gateways, and even air-gapped deployments. Being built on Matrix, there is no single point of failure for the network thanks to the decentralised network architecture, making it perfect for mission-critical environments. Please contact us to explore how your business can benefit from Element.
    Starting Price: $5 Per Monthly Active User
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    Lark

    Lark

    ByteDance

    The next-gen collaboration suite. All your chats, meetings, calendars, docs, and emails in one place. These organisations have made Lark their all-in-one solution for collaboration. Lark is a comprehensive productivity superapp designed to streamline collaboration. It combines chat, meetings, document editing,project management, and automation tools in one intuitive platform, simplifying your workflow and enhancing team communication. It suits teams of all sizes, from small groups to large multinational companies. By utilizing Lark Base, teams have the ability to construct a CRM solution that aligns with their present requirements and is capable of expanding along with the business. Additionally, Lark is well-equipped to serve as a project management tool, providing project managers with robust features for planning, tracking, and executing projects effectively.
    Starting Price: $12/user/month
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    Mattermost

    Mattermost

    Mattermost

    Mattermost is a flexible, open source messaging platform that enables secure team collaboration. Build intuitive workflows and collaborate across large teams without worrying about security or data privacy. Get up and running quickly with hundreds of existing integrations, or build out custom workflows that scale to tens of thousands of concurrent users. Many of the world’s leading privacy-conscious enterprises work better with Mattermost by connecting people, tools, and automation to increase collaboration. DevOps teams use Mattermost to power collaboration at every stage of the DevOps lifecycle. Mattermost unifies people, tools, data, and automations to help your team increase innovation and agility. Mattermost is an open source Slack alternative. It's written in Golang and React and runs as a single Linux binary with MySQL or PostgreSQL. Use the features you like (file sharing, real-time group chat and webhooks—to name a few) and access the source code.
    Starting Price: $3.25 per user per month
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    Ryver

    Ryver

    Ryver

    Ryver is a team collaboration software platform that combines group messaging, task management, and workflow automation ALL IN ONE APP. Email "reply all" quickly becomes a messy way to collaborate. And other apps like Slack and Trello are really expensive and can't even do all of what Ryver can. Get more done by upgrading your team's collaboration software to Ryver today.
    Starting Price: $49.00/month
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    BBM Enterprise

    BBM Enterprise

    BlackBerry

    Enterprise-grade Messaging and Conferencing Solution with End-to-end Security and Privacy. BBM® Enterprise offers secure text, voice, video, group chat and conferencing on any device, including smartphones and desktops. It’s the ideal communications solution for businesses and working professionals, with its end-to-end encryption on multiple endpoints, robust privacy policies and enterprise-grade features.
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    Yeastar Cloud PBX
    Yeastar Cloud PBX is a fully-featured future-ready phone system ideally suited for SMBs. With Linkus UC Clients, you will gain easy access to enhanced call efficiency and remote working agility across any device at your choice. With 100% hosted deployment, there is no upfront hardware cost and the in-house management overheads are reduced to almost nothing. Together with easy to use and full compatibility features, any migration or upgrade to Yeastar’s hosted solution will be as easy as a breeze. * Please note that Yeastar P-Series PBX System is the new Yeastar Cloud PBX that comes with versatile call center features and unified communications features.
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    CloudMeet

    CloudMeet

    Crest Infosolutions Pte Ltd

    Self-hosted and end-to-end encrypted Online Meeting, Team Chat, Audio/Video Calling and Communication Channels Solution for Enterprises. Following features are included in this release: 1. Join meeting from mobile by entering meeting id, password and name. 2. Login into CloudMeet using your credentials. 3. Initiate instant meeting or schedule a virtual meeting for later date. 4. View, accept/reject invites and start or join meetings. 5. Instant 1-to-1 or Group Chat with your colleagues with push notifications. 6. Instant 1-to-1 or Group Audio or Video calling with your colleagues.
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    Messagenius

    Messagenius

    Messagenius

    MESSAGENIUS - SECURE ENTERPRISE MESSAGING Messagenius is the enterprise messaging for secure, smart and integrated communications among colleagues: - Runs on your own private servers/clouds; - Enhances productivity with dedicated features; - Integrates into any software in use; - Gets 100% customisable and comes in white-label by default. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES Messagenius has 3 main competitive advantages in comparison with the mainstream messaging apps (WhatsApp, Slack, Skype, etc.): 1. SECURITY, DATA OWNERSHIP & COMPLIANCE - It runs on the customer’s private servers (on-premises/private-cloud). 2. PRODUCTIVITY - UX and UI are 100% customizable, up to white label. 3. INTEGRATION - It integrates into and with any software in use. TECHNOLOGY Messagenius is available for Android, iOS, web & desktop as: stand-alone messaging app, branded and customised in white label; add-on messaging feature, integrated into other software via SDK.
    Starting Price: $8 per user per month
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    Fleep

    Fleep

    Fleep

    Get ready to work smarter, better, faster. Combining messaging with file sharing and tasks, Fleep has everything you need to coordinate your team’s work from idea to execution. Conversations are at the heart of Fleep. Set them up around projects, teams or any specific topics to stay connected and discuss ideas. Highlight any decisions or plans on the conversation's Pinboard and create tasks to coordinate execution. Communicate with any other Fleep user or team, without having to sign out or sign in separately. Simply search for and add your partners or clients to the conversation. If they're not Fleep users yet, send them an invite to join you. Use Fleep on the web browser or on the native apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android or iOS. Your files and messages are stored securely in the cloud, accessible from any device you log in from. Communicate and collaborate with your team and any other Fleep user or team, without having to sign out and sign in separately.
    Starting Price: €5 per user per month
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    Textr Go
    Textr Go helps you keep in touch with your loved ones, stay active in your social circle, and enjoy your personal life. Don’t miss a good chance to get a personal phone number and use it wherever you are. Stay connected on a clear and reliable phone system with an affordable plan. You can design your phone plan. Simply apply for a phone number online, separate business and personal contacts, and upgrade to unlimited texting and calling when needed. Eligible for a free Canada or US phone number in minutes. Flexible plans with text and call starting from $0 monthly, and upgrade your phone plan anytime anywhere. Assign familiar contacts to your primary number, and get messages and calls from strangers on a secondary phone number. A worldwide used mobile phone number to call and text. Just connect to WiFi, and you can reach anyone anywhere at the most competitive rate. Feel free to pick your desired area code, custom voicemail greeting, or choose your favorite profile.
    Starting Price: $6.99 per month
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    Missive

    Missive

    Missive

    The team inbox and chat tool that empowers teams to truly collaborate around email, SMS, WhatsApp, Twitter, Messenger, live chat, and more. We redesigned the inbox with a business-first collaborative experience in mind. With Missive, teams focus on growing their business. Everything you need to get the job done. The Team Inbox is offered as a powerful workflow setting for your shared accounts and addresses.
    Starting Price: $10 per user per month
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    Chatwork

    Chatwork

    ChatWork

    You know you're not the only one who dreads the weekly meeting. Person-by-person status updates. Really? Still?! Imagine your daily back-to-back meetings are replaced by project-specific quick video chats. Only as needed. You know it's there. Somewhere in the 21,396 unread emails and paper piles on the desk. So what if all those buried file attachments suddenly became masterfully organized. By project or topic. In context. We store all your business data using 256-bit encryption to ensure data is protected and secure. Also we are ISO27001 certified, the most widely recognized security standards. Frustrated and stressed from spending too much time on email? Replace your daily crush of email with real-time chat messages. What could be simpler. Group chat for global teams. Teamwork without the drama. It’s a beautiful thing.
    Starting Price: $4 per month
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    maaiiconnect
    maaiiconnect makes customer engagement simple. It is the only cloud-based platform that brings digital and telecom communications together to help businesses deliver seamless customer experiences. Be a truly omnichannel business. Centralise channels such as WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, SMS, Virtual Numbers, Video Conferencing, and a Web Communications Widget for Live Chat and Web Calls into one place with full customer relationship history, customer data, CRM, ticketing system, and rich insights.
    Starting Price: Free
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    SayHey Messenger

    SayHey Messenger

    SayHey Messenger

    Our product is a texting platform that can be used as an app or on your desktop. Our differentiator is that we are the only mobile platform that has compliance for regulated industries. Special features focus network marketing groups with bullhorn messaging to engage employees and we have real time monitoring in our admin portal. This allows the user to type any word in and pull all current and historic data of any time the word/phrase/etc. was used. Most importantly we allow the user to own their own data.
    Starting Price: $999/mo + $5 per user
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    CA Flowdock

    CA Flowdock

    CA Technologies

    CA Flowdock brings all of your conversations, work items and tools into one place. Prioritize work, solve problems, search and organize across teams, locations and timezones. Real-time team chat for your entire organization. Flows are the heart of Flowdock, they are open spaces for your teams to converse and collaborate. Invite project stakeholders to join your Flow to participate in discussions, see updates from your tools, and receive catered notifications. Within a team Flow, conversations are organized by Threads. Team members can reply to these Threads, keeping topics organized. All conversations are color coded so you can quickly identify a topic and jump back into the conversation. If you need to discuss something confidentially with a member of your team, you can converse privately through our 1:1 Flows. Use the /appear command to activate instant video chat and screen sharing through one of our favorite integrations: Appear.in. The link is available for anyone on your team.
    Starting Price: $3.00/month
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    KakaoTalk
    Shop today through KakaoTalkQuickly and easily look through products offered on KakaoTalk's fourth tab, Kakao Shopping. Showcase your products or services in the Kakao Channeland share it with other KakaoTalk users. You can also access email from KakaoTalk.Exchange emails more conveniently with Kakao Mail, where you can getemail notifications and have Jordy help you with simple replies. There are ways to spruce up your KakaoTalk, which you use daily. Include your favorite photo and characters to create a customized theme and share it with friends. Use Kakao Wallet, the safe and easy digital wallet offered by KakaoTalk. Easily access certificates to issue documents from major public websites. New features are tested by users in the Lab before it is officially added to KakaoTalk. The Kakao Team continues to strive to provide only the best services.
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