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    CleverTap

    Score7.8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    CleverTap is a mobile marketing solution that helps marketers create differentiated customer engagement strategies that are designed to drive growth. The vendor’s value proposition is that thousands of brands continue to build valuable relationships with their customers using CleverTap’s Intelligent Mobile Marketing Platform, which provides actionable, real-time insights for building amazing customer experiences. According to the vendor, key features and…N/A

    MessageGears

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMessageGears is a hybrid email marketing service built around deliverability, actionable customer data, and audience segmentation and targeting.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    CleverTapMessageGears
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    CleverTap
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    MessageGears
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    67%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    40%
    Implementation went as expected
    2 Answers
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    Features
    CleverTapMessageGears
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of CleverTap and MessageGears
    Feature
    CleverTap
    -
    Ratings
    MessageGears
    3.3
    3 Ratings
    83% below category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings1.52 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings3.83 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings2.23 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings2.73 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings3.83 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings2.13 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings2.23 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of CleverTap and MessageGears
    Feature
    CleverTap
    -
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    MessageGears
    1.1
    3 Ratings
    149% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings1.13 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings1.13 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Pre-Send Testing
    Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of CleverTap and MessageGears
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    CleverTap
    -
    Ratings
    MessageGears
    3.7
    3 Ratings
    75% below category average
    URL Validation00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Link Tracking00 Ratings2.83 Ratings
    Image Validation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Inbox Display00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Spelling and Grammar Check00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Spam Testing00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
    Email Previews00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
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    Usability
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CleverTapMessageGears
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CleverTap
    It is quite suited for all the SMS, emails, and other in-game campaigns, but wherein the delivery rate I personally feel it is less, and it has [a] limitation on 5 pins for the day for 1 user, it should be unlimited.
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    MessageGears
    MessageGears can be a solid, inexpensive email solution and you can be able to send millions of emails per year. In 2020, we delivered over 235 million emails at a fraction of what that would cost with any other email service provider. We worked with MessageGears on a custom solution with our database.
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    Pros
    CleverTap
    • User communication: it provides a single dashboard to help us reach out to our users via email, push, web push, SMS, in-app and now even WhatsApp. Not just that, we can set up various types of targeting, such as one-time, recurring, date/time based, etc.
    • Analytics: it offers various views and cuts to analyze the user data, be it in the form of trends, funnels, recency-frequency, user cohorts and segments, etc.
    • Tracking: it helps us track the impact of various paid and organic marketing channels, through which we can adjust spends and focus on the channels that make an impact.
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    MessageGears
    • The MessageGears Support team is very helpful.
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    Cons
    CleverTap
    • Customer service isn't that great [from my experience], most of the time the team is puzzled or will leave the client puzzled.
    • Price is very high with respect to the features available. MAU based pricing with a flawed sense of MAU calculation.
    • The way they calculate MAU is morally wrong. If a customer opens my email that I am sending via AWS, and they don't even come on my app, how can you consider them as active user?
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    MessageGears
    • Multivariate testing
    • WYSIWYG email builder
    • SQL audience error report
    • Native reporting
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    Usability
    CleverTap
    No answers on this topic
    MessageGears
    Our situation is unique so I believe we are working on a semi-outdated UI which needs a tune up / version upgrade. Similarly, our custom connection means that we do not have access to the full feature set so I've never experienced MessageGears' best functionality
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    Support Rating
    CleverTap
    For their expertise and timely resolution to our issues.
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    MessageGears
    MessageGears support is always quick to respond when we have an issue, which is rare. Gail has been our main rep and she has been great. We don't have many issues so luckily, we don't need to lean on their customer support team much. That said, it would be beneficial to hear from upper management more.
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    Alternatives Considered
    CleverTap
    Edit: Clevertap added attribution tools to its features, making it possible to track your user acquisition sources. CleverTap is as complete as Localytics. It provides us good segmentation, analysis and engagement tools for a good competitive price. T̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶s̶i̶d̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶C̶l̶e̶v̶e̶r̶t̶a̶p̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶a̶t̶t̶r̶i̶b̶u̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶l̶s̶,̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶L̶o̶c̶a̶l̶y̶t̶i̶c̶s̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶. One other major advantage of Clevertap is its customer service. They are always standing by to promptly respond to any question you might have regarding its usability or its development. This kind of careful attention is really appreciated.
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    MessageGears
    MessageGears doesn't come close to Salesforce Marketing Cloud. We chose MessageGears based on how data was accessed. We never really got a good preview of how the system works or what was available, so we didn't know everything that it was lacking until we started using it.
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    Return on Investment
    CleverTap
    • Our additional revenues from additional in-site promotions during a festive sales jumped 40% after using Clevertap pop-ups that targeted people at the product & category level.
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    MessageGears
    • Sending more email!
    • Onboarding handoff was a little rough
    • Great control on who we are sending to
    • Dynamic content is very easy!
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    Screenshot of CleverTap Mobile App DashboardScreenshot of CleverTap HomepageScreenshot of CleverTap Cohort AnalysisScreenshot of CleverTap Create New Push NotificationsScreenshot of CleverTap Create SegmentsScreenshot of CleverTap Segmentation Reports