Affordable, fast, and compliant text blast service

SMS blasts get out your message fast for marketing, internal communication, stakeholder engagement, and so much more. Reach the people you need quickly, affordably, and compliantly with SimpleTexting’s text blast software.

  • Send text blasts to large groups with higher limits than group texts
  • Target your intended group with segmented contact lists
  • Chat with individual blast recipients through replies
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What is a text blast?

A text blast, also known as an SMS blast, is a text message that you send to a massive number of people at once. Text blasts let you reach a much larger group at once than a typical group text and allow for individual, organized replies. Best of all, when you use a proper text blast service, it’s all compliant with texting regulations.

Why are text blasts effective?

On top of reaching a wide audience efficiently, text blasts let you speak your customers’ language. Customers want to hear from you via text – you just have to get their permission.

84%

84% of consumers signed up to receive texts from businesses in the past year. You’ll reach your audience with text blasts.

82%

82% of consumers check text notifications within 5 minutes of receiving a text blast. You’ll engage your audience with text blasts.

45%

45% of consumers have purchased from a business after receiving a text from them. You’ll grow sales with text blasts.

“Honestly, we’re connecting with people. Information is getting in front of those who need it, in a way that other communication strategies couldn’t do. If they’re contacted via text message there’s almost a complete guarantee that they’ll be reached.”

Mike Billeter

Central Church Success Story

How to send a text blast

If you’ve sent a text to a friend, you know how to send a text blast with SimpleTexting.

#1: Find your text blast service
Reliable text blast services have scheduling, automation, contact management, and analytics. Our customers tell us they look for ease of use, affordability, and great support.

#2: Choose your text-enabled business number
Your options include your existing business number, a new local 10-digit number, a toll-free number, or a dedicated short code. Most of our customers text-enable their current phone number.

#3: Segment your text blast groups
Plan your SMS blast segments – or subgroups within your contacts — in advance so you can organize contacts as you get them. For example, you can segment your text blasts by location, first-time buyers, departments, and participants.

#4: Collect phone numbers
Now you can build your SMS blast subscriber list. Most of our customers collect contacts through text-to-join keywords, web forms, or imported contacts from existing spreadsheets.

#5: Create your text blast
Write your text message. Many of our customers draft a message, then use AI Assist to optimize it based on the SimpleTexting team’s deep knowledge of business texting.

#6: Schedule your text blast
You can send a text blast immediately after you’ve created it or use an automation to schedule it to send at a specific time.

“If someone was considering SimpleTexting for business purposes, I would absolutely recommend it…It’s just really great and convenient, and you can get really granular with who you’re going to text and what type of campaigns you’re going to send.”

Kellsie Wells
Nuclear Care Partners

SimpleTexting is your text blast software for every need

Elevate your reach, boost engagement, and talk to large or targeted groups using SMS blasts — all to directly improve your business operations and community interactions.

Love sweet deals popping up on your phone? We do, too! With our business texting platform, you can send discounts and coupons straight to your customers. 
  • Boost sales and brand affinity by creating and sending personalized offers to your audience.
  • Be the surprise hero! Send promotions at the perfect moment to get more repeat buyers.
  • Track the impact of each text blast campaign and refine your strategy for even more epic returns.
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Keep your team in the loop and maintain an upbeat vibe. From lengthy explanations to quick, short meetings, text blasts have you covered.
  • Update your staff with company news and policies, promoting an open, trustworthy workplace.
  • Create a sense of community, and encourage active involvement in events, training, and meetings — with a single blast.
  • Get feedback, high-fives, and the occasional “You rock, boss!” directly through text responses.
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Streamline your nonprofit communications with donors, volunteers, and event participants with quick text blasts.

  • Update everyone with quick reminder blasts for important dates and events.
  • Swap volunteer chaos for kick-butt coordination by assigning roles, communicating schedules, and sharing critical updates promptly.
  • Show genuine appreciation for donations. Easily address donors by name and acknowledge past contributions.
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Send out emergency, product, or service alerts quickly to the people who need to see them. Whether you want to spread the word about a dangerous storm or a service outage, your SMS blast will reach your people.
  • Swap chaos for kick-butt coordination by assigning roles, communicating schedules, and sharing critical updates promptly.
  • Spread the love in blasts! Easily acknowledge and reward volunteer dedication and achievements.
  • Streamline the onboarding process and provide compelling opportunities, ensuring volunteers’ time is valued and impactful.
Two volunteers plant trees with a text bubble that reads, 'Save Our Trees needs three teams for our city-wide planting event on Sunday at 12pm. Bring gloves!'

What makes SimpleTexting’s SMS blast services stand out?

We could tell you how great our SMS blast service is. Or we could let real customers share their experiences. Let’s go with the latter.

Easy to use
“It is so easy to use! I also like the campaigns feature and the ease of importing contacts. I am able to contact multiple people with ease.” —Rick G. via G2

Award-winning support
“I just had the best customer service experience with Eri! She patiently walked me through every issue I had and even took the time to format our spreadsheet.” —Amanda B. via G2

Easy-to-understand pricing
“The price per sent text is by far the most cost effective of any platform we’ve reviewed. It was an easy decision to buy SimpleTexting and one we would make again.” —Justin H. via G2

Unlimited contacts
“We are a not-for-profit, so I like that we can have separate contact lists for our donors, parents, clients, and especially our volunteers.” —Sarah W. via G2

Text blast automation
“The automations they offer also make it very easy to create scalable text campaigns without having to put in much effort.” —Nick N. via G2

On-the-go access
“I don’t have time when it’s the day of an event. SimpleTexting was one platform. After I scheduled texts, I could respond easily with the app. It’s super reliable.” —Bri LaCaruba via interview

SimpleTexting text blasts in the real world

Now that you know the potential of sending texts on a large scale, see how SimpleTexting’s text blast software serves these uses for our customers. Whether business, nonprofit, or organization, SMS blasts get your messages to the people you want to read them.

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SimpleTexting’s text blast features

We’ll help you get out your message quickly and easily. Here are the features SimpleTexting’s text blast service does well.

Text-enabled business number
Does your business already have a phone number? We can help you receive and send texts from that same number. Or get a new local, toll-free, or short code number.

Unlimited text-to-subscribe keywords
Create a custom keyword anyone with a mobile phone can send you to automatically sign up for your SMS marketing campaigns. You get unlimited text-to-join keywords with SimpleTexting.

Web forms
Easily create a custom opt-in list using our web forms feature to capture important customer data and enhance your engagement strategies.

Easy spreadsheet upload
Do you have a list of opt-in SMS contacts? You can easily upload them via a spreadsheet into SimpleTexting. We never limit the number of contacts you can have, allowing your SMS campaigns to grow alongside your audience.

Mass, bulk, and group blasts
Keep your subscribers in the loop by sending targeted messages, promotions, announcements, and more to your entire audience in one go.

Recurring text blasts
Simplify your campaigns and communicate consistently with your subscribers by setting up recurring text blasts for regular reminders, updates, and content.

Text blast scheduling
Send text blasts immediately after you create them or schedule them to send at a specific time in the future.

Data collection
Automatically collect customer data like names, locations, and preferences to personalize your future campaigns.

Free incoming SMS
With SimpleTexting, you’ll never have to budget for incoming SMS messages, and incoming MMS cost only one credit.

Two-way SMS
Send text blasts and receive texts from your contacts. Chat one-on-one with your subscribers to provide them with the most memorable experiences possible.

Auto-reply
Promptly address customer needs, questions, and concerns by automatically sending them pre-written responses when they text you.

Analytics
Analyze and optimize the effectiveness of your SMS campaigns using real-time analytic insights like delivery rates, open rates, and click-through rates.

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Stay compliant with our SMS blast service

To get the best delivery rates and happiest recipients, you need your SMS blasts to comply with texting regulations. We make it hassle-free to follow them.

Approved opt-in methods

Secure express written consent to send your contacts promotional texts with text-to-join, web forms, and sign-up widgets.

Free compliance guides

Our Ultimate Guide to SMS Compliance breaks down everything you need to know, from writing your calls-to-action to crafting your text message blasts.

Automated compliance text

We’ll automatically send new contacts all the required disclosures with your text blast for free. Think of it as the unsubscribe footer in an email.

No charge for compliance

We’re the only SMS blast service to send the compliance message as a separate text. We don’t charge a penny for it, or for STOP and HELP replies.

Easy unsubscribe

No need to manually remove uninterested contacts. To unsubscribe, all they have to do is reply STOP or HELP to your text blast.

Effortless privacy policies

If you use our mobile sign-up widget to build your subscriber list, we’ll automatically create an extensive privacy policy and even host it for you.

Frequently asked questions about our text blast app

After more than a decade of sending text blasts, we’ve received a lot of questions. These are the most common.

What is the difference between text blasts vs. group texts?

Group texting involves sending a message to a select group of contacts that allows for a single conversation among every contact in the receiving group. The number of contacts allowed in group texts is usually limited to 20-32.

Text and SMS blasts are mass messages sent to numerous recipients separately and simultaneously. Text blasts are a type of BCC text message where recipients can reply only to the sender and cannot see all contacts that received the text blast.
The cost of a text blast depends on how many texts you plan to send. The more you send, the cheaper it is. Our plans start at $29 per month for 500 credits, and incoming SMS messages are free. You can visit our pricing page for more info.
By default, every SimpleTexting account is set up with a 10-digit local number that can send and receive messages in bulk. If you already have one for your business, we can text-enable it. (Yes, even if it’s a landline.) You can also provision a short code for your SMS blasts.
Yes! Our text blast app for iOS and Android makes it easy to send text blasts from your phone. You can download it for free right now from the App Store or Google Play.
If past clients have given you express written consent to send them text blasts, then you can upload them to our platform and send away! If not, you can text them according to what kind of messages they agreed to receive from you. You may need to ask them for consent to send them SMS blasts specifically, but fortunately, we make it easy.
Absolutely! However, it has to be done within certain guidelines. You should never purchase a list of phone numbers, and you must have consent from your contacts to text them. After all, why would you want to spend money sending texts to people who aren’t interested? Especially when we have countless methods to build your blast list.
Yes–after creating your text blasting campaign, you can choose whether you’d like to send it one time, schedule it for a set date and time, or set it to send multiple times as a recurring message. If you send a text blast through our autoresponder feature, you can schedule your autoresponder to go out at a set time after the recipient subscribes to your texting list.
By signing up for a text blast free trial with SimpleTexting, you can try out our platform for 14 days–no credit card required.
Your phone’s default text app can only support group texts, not text blasts. Plus, going through a texting service to send a blast lets you follow texting regulations so your texts don’t get put on a spam list.
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Published: September 11th 2025