For schools, shuls, teams & community organizations
One group text that reaches every phone.
Flip phones get a regular text. Smartphones get the free app. You send once — everyone gets it.
No monthly fee · you pay 1.3¢ per text sent · members never pay · live in minutes, not days
1 · Create your group
Its own phone number, live in minutes — a chat where everyone talks, or announcements only you send.
2 · Add your people
Paste your list, share a one-tap link, or members text JOIN to your number.
3 · Send once, reach all
Smartphones get it free in the app; flip phones get a normal text (1.3¢).
Who pays for the texts? The leader picks one of two ways.
Either way: receiving is always free, and members reading in the free app cost nothing at all.
Option A
🧍 Each sender pays their own way
Rivky loads her own money in the chat and pays 1.3¢ per member who gets her message by SMS (40 flip phones = 52¢). App members cost her nothing.
Option B
👑 The group leader pays for everyone
The leader (or a sponsor) funds the group's balance — Rivky and every member send free. The balance pays 1.3¢ per SMS delivered.
The leader switches between these anytime in the portal. Members never pay to receive — in either option, on any phone.
Kosher-phone ready
Made for communities on filtered phones.
When half your members carry phones with no apps and no browser, group messaging has to come to them — as plain texts, in the inbox they already check. That's where HuddleText started.
✓ Plain SMS delivery
Regular texts to flip and filtered phones — nothing to install, ever.
✓ A number they know
Every message comes from your group's own number.
✓ They just reply
Answering a group text works like any other text — from any phone.
✓ Smartphones ride free
Members who do carry one get the same messages in the free app — at no cost to the group.
Compare us
| HuddleText | Typical group-texting services | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly fee | $0 | $50/month and up |
| Per text | 1.3¢ | 1.5¢ and up |
| Photos | 3¢ | 5¢ |
| More groups | Free, own number each | $10/month per group |
| Time to go live | Minutes | 2–4 business days |
| Smartphone members | Free in the app | Full-price texts, forever |
The last row is the big one: in most communities half the members carry smartphones — here they cost the group nothing. Want texting paid for? A local sponsor can cover it — you keep 80%. Need one-way blasts? Mass texting →
In a group already? Open your messages — just your phone number, no account