OneSignal vs. Waterfall

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OneSignal
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
OneSignal’s omnichannel customer engagement platform offers push notifications, email, in-app messages, and SMS. OneSignal’s automated customer Journeys and one-off campaigns allow users to create messaging strategies that convert, inform, and retain audiences, with little to no coding required for setup.
$9
per month
Waterfall
Score 4.1 out of 10
N/A
Text messaging software to connect and engage your audience using targeted, personalized mobile communications.N/A
Pricing
OneSignalWaterfall
Editions & Modules
Growth
9+
per month
Professional
999+
per month
Free
Free
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OneSignalWaterfall
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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OneSignalWaterfall
Small Businesses
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
OneSignalWaterfall
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(9 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
OneSignalWaterfall
Likelihood to Recommend
OneSignal
I think One Signal is very well suited for mobile app owners who want to be in touch with their user base more easily by sending push notifications and in-app messages. I'm not sure how well that works for SMS messaging as I haven't yet tried it. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it if your in-apps are very rare.
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Upland Software
For large organizations that are looking to build big, robust SMS programs and want the benefit of a CRM back-end for managing users and messaging.
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Pros
OneSignal
  • Send instant notifications without any delay.
  • Provide all the necessary features for testing.
  • Highly cost effective.
  • Great system to handle huge volume.
  • Great customer support.
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Upland Software
  • Customer service. You have your own point of contact. They are very supportive and helpful. They always respond quickly.
  • Their deep non-profit discount.
  • Their message schedules. Very flexible and it can be a relative schedule to say a pregnant woman's due date and someone's goal date for quit smoking, etc.
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Cons
OneSignal
  • Is still in development: we know OneSignal is still in development and sometimes it takes longer to create or fulfill certain features.
  • Payment: payment menu is not at the glance, [and] is just difficult sometimes to find -it is a minor issue.
  • Send to certain custom segments through specific OneSignal IDs; you can do it though API doing a GET call with tools like Postman. If this can be done from OneSignal it would be great.
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Upland Software
  • Some features require additional cost. The nature of growth means the product becomes more expensive and that is a problem for some buyers.
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Usability
OneSignal
I give an 8 in this question mainly for 2 reasons: the products even if they look like complete and are highly customizable and usable, they are still missing some logical features. For example, send messages to a list of users - now days you can do it with postman and get calls. A second example is App messaging that is still in development and has many opportunities.
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Upland Software
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
OneSignal
Their customer support has been top-notch. They are able to assist you in getting through any problems that you may have and respond in a very timely manner. I've dealt with them on 4-5 instances over the years and my issues were always resolved within a matter of a few business days.
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Upland Software
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Alternatives Considered
OneSignal
In my opinion, OneSignal documentation / API is more friendly [than] Firebase. Maybe because Firebase is already "too big," but OneSignal is focused on one solution that giving our notification through to our customer. In that case, OneSignal is chosen by our company. Several years after that, Firebase announced it supported [the] iOs platform too but our company already using OneSignal to our notification provider.
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Upland Software
We had EZTexting before. They don't have relative scheduling message so we had to switch to another vendor. We checked into SMS Magic, but they were not very responsive to our sales inquiry and then we received some phone call from India from someone who's very hard to communicate with.
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Return on Investment
OneSignal
  • OneSignal has allowed us to grow number of subscribers in a short time.
  • We are able to send our news and offers easily and instantly.
  • We have become able to drive more website traffic and increase in sales.
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Upland Software
  • We have worked with several clients to help them launch and grow their SMS program and the platform helps us doing cutting edge work in this space.
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