Got Kicked Out of GroupMe? Look to Evant.

Let's be honest, most people didn't even know GroupMe was still a thing until it shut down.

And then it shut down their SMS feature and suddenly tens of thousands of people were scrambling.

If you were one of them, welcome. You're in the right place.

What Actually Happened With GroupMe

GroupMe decided to shut down their SMS functionality. No big announcement. No real warning. Just gone.

For a lot of people this wasn't a minor inconvenience. GroupMe SMS was the backbone of how entire communities communicated. Schools. Shuls. Neighborhood groups. Family chats. Organizations that had been running on GroupMe SMS for years suddenly had nothing.

The Lakewood community felt it hard. GroupMe SMS worked on every phone, including kosher phones, without needing an app, a data plan, or a smartphone. That's not easy to replace.

People were frustrated enough that a petition went around asking GroupMe to reverse the decision. It got real traction. GroupMe didn't budge.

So here we are.

The Obvious Alternatives Don't Really Work

Everyone's first instinct was WhatsApp or iMessage. And look, those work fine if everyone in your group has a smartphone with data.

But that's not reality for a lot of people in our community.

WhatsApp requires data and a smartphone. Not everyone has that.

iMessage is iPhone only. One Android user in the group and the whole thing breaks down.

Regular carrier group texts? Numbers get exposed, replies go everywhere, and managing a group of more than ten people becomes a nightmare.

None of these are real replacements for what GroupMe SMS was doing.

What Evant Does

Evant is an SMS and voice platform that has been working with frum communities, schools, mosdos, and organizations for years. We weren't specifically built to replace GroupMe, but the way we're built, we might as well have been.

Here's what's relevant if you're coming from GroupMe:

Group Messaging That Actually Works

Create a group, add your contacts, and send messages where everyone can respond. You decide whether replies go to the whole group or just to you as the admin. Works on every phone — including kosher phones — no app, no internet, no download required.

One organization used our group messaging feature to coordinate hundreds of volunteers for a community event. Everyone got the message. Everyone responded. Nobody got left out because of their phone.

Mass Texting With Real Responses

Need to reach a lot of people and actually see who responds? Send one message, collect responses, and manage everything from one clean dashboard. No chaos. No crossed wires.

Kosher Phone Compatible. For Real

This isn't a marketing line. Evant was built from day one with the frum community in mind. Every single feature works on a kosher phone. No exceptions.

Voice Calls

Beyond texting, you can send automated voice calls to your entire list. If someone doesn't pick up, it leaves a voicemail — and that voicemail gets automatically transcribed into text. So the message lands either way.

Free Email

We recently added email to Evant, included for every customer at no extra charge. SMS, voice, and email all in one dashboard. No separate bill to Constant Contact or Mailchimp.

Someone Actually Picks Up

This is a small company run by real people. If you have a question, you can call or text us directly. We pick up.

Real Results From Real Organizations

One organization in the community sent two texts to their donor list through Evant. They raised over $100,000. Two texts.

A school texted their parent body before Pesach for a fundraiser. They raised $15,000 in 20 minutes. The texts cost less than $30 to send.

A local business sent one survey question to their customers. They woke up the next morning to 998 responses. The same survey by email got a fraction of that.

These aren't made up numbers. These are real organizations using a simple tool the right way.

Read more here: GroupMe Alternative

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