The price anchor
| Remindly | SimpleTexting | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 — no subscription | $29+/mo |
| Annual | $0 after purchase | $348 |
| 5-year total | $34 | $1,740 |
| 10-year total | $34 | $3,480 |
Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing ($29+/mo, ~$348/yr); the Remindly column is the full price, paid once.
Break-even analysis
Remindly costs about one month of SimpleTexting once — after year one you pay only the SMS fees you were already going to pay anyway.
- After 1 year: Remindly has cost you $34 total — SimpleTexting has cost $348.
- After 3 years: Remindly is still $34 — the subscription is at $1,044.
- After 5 years: Remindly is still $34 — the subscription is at $1,740.
What you get for $34 once
- Appointments. Manual entry or CSV import with per-row validation and error reporting.
- Reminder rules. Any offset like 24h, 2h or 15min, by SMS or email, with per-rule templates and merge fields.
- Two-way confirm. Clients reply C to confirm or R to reschedule via the Twilio inbound webhook, with confirmed / pending / no-reply status.
- STOP/START opt-out. Compliant by design — STOP blocks all future sends to that number and is logged, START re-subscribes.
- Quiet hours. Reminders due at 3 AM wait politely until your quiet window ends, deferred and never dropped.
- No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $34 is the whole price.
Pricing questions
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Remindly is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/appointment-reminder-sms-mvp. The $34 buys the packaged Windows installer with everything wired up; building from source is free.
Am I still paying for SMS?
Yes, but only the real carrier fee. Twilio charges ~$0.0079 per SMS on your own account and Remindly never marks it up — you skip the SaaS fee stacked on top, not the carrier cost.
Where does my client data live?
In your own SQLite file on your box, self-hosted with your own API keys — nothing goes to a third-party cloud.
Remindly — $34, one time
Or get Remindly plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.