Group texts mix every job together. Walkie Pro keeps them apart.
Walkie Pro is a construction communication app. It keeps the messages and calls you already make, split by job: one conversation with each trade, and a separate feed for every job you share.
The short answer
Choose Walkie Pro when you run more than one job with the same people. Each job gets its own feed, and every call comes back as a record.
Choose a group text for one job, a short list of items, or anything social. It reaches everybody with nothing to install.
| What you need to do | Walkie Pro | Group texts | Keep it when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Run three jobs with the same trade | One conversation with that person, and a separate feed for each job you share. | One thread holds every job you have together, in the order things were said. | Keep the text while you and that person only share one job. |
| Keep what was said out loud | Every Walkie call is recorded. On a Walkie-to-Walkie call, everyone gets the same recording, transcript and summary. | Voice memos are quick to send and easy to play back, one at a time. | Keep sending voice memos when the message is short and one person needs it. |
| Find it again by asking | Ask Walkie in plain words, like “what did we decide on the panel?”, and it opens the call or message where it was said. | Search the thread for a word you hope someone typed. What was said on a call isn't there. | Keep the thread when the answer is from this week and you know who said it. |
| Find the photo again in March | Photos sit under the job they belong to, and you can filter down to one job. | Scroll the thread back to the day it was sent, or ask for it again. | Keep the text when the photo went out this week and you know who sent it. |
| Remember what you're waiting on | Give a message a date and it becomes a follow-up. The list is private to you. | Your own memory, a notebook, or the list app you already keep. | Keep your own list when it's short and it's only ever yours. |
| Reach everybody today | Everyone you invite installs the app and signs in with Apple or Google, then confirms their phone number. | Already on every phone, with nothing to install and nobody to invite. | Keep the text when you need one answer from someone you may never work with again. |
Run three jobs with the same trade
- Walkie Pro
- One conversation with that person, and a separate feed for each job you share.
- Group texts
- One thread holds every job you have together, in the order things were said.
- Keep it when
- Keep the text while you and that person only share one job.
Keep what was said out loud
- Walkie Pro
- Every Walkie call is recorded. On a Walkie-to-Walkie call, everyone gets the same recording, transcript and summary.
- Group texts
- Voice memos are quick to send and easy to play back, one at a time.
- Keep it when
- Keep sending voice memos when the message is short and one person needs it.
Find it again by asking
- Walkie Pro
- Ask Walkie in plain words, like “what did we decide on the panel?”, and it opens the call or message where it was said.
- Group texts
- Search the thread for a word you hope someone typed. What was said on a call isn't there.
- Keep it when
- Keep the thread when the answer is from this week and you know who said it.
Find the photo again in March
- Walkie Pro
- Photos sit under the job they belong to, and you can filter down to one job.
- Group texts
- Scroll the thread back to the day it was sent, or ask for it again.
- Keep it when
- Keep the text when the photo went out this week and you know who sent it.
Remember what you're waiting on
- Walkie Pro
- Give a message a date and it becomes a follow-up. The list is private to you.
- Group texts
- Your own memory, a notebook, or the list app you already keep.
- Keep it when
- Keep your own list when it's short and it's only ever yours.
Reach everybody today
- Walkie Pro
- Everyone you invite installs the app and signs in with Apple or Google, then confirms their phone number.
- Group texts
- Already on every phone, with nothing to install and nobody to invite.
- Keep it when
- Keep the text when you need one answer from someone you may never work with again.
Product behaviour, described plainly.
How it all fits together
Call and message the way you already do.
One conversation with each person. Every job you share with them gets its own feed.
Hang up, and it's filed.
Every Walkie call is recorded. The transcript and summary land under the job the call was about. Photos and files stay with their job too.
Loose ends get a date.
Turn any message into a follow-up. Your list is private to you.
Ask, and go straight to it.
Ask Walkie in plain words what was decided, and it opens the call or message where it was said.
Where the thread runs out
The thread is one line. The day is not.
Say you have three jobs running with the same electrician. All three land in the same thread, in the order things were said. Then the parking message arrives, and Tuesday’s framing change is forty messages up.
Three weeks later somebody asks who approved it. The answer is somewhere in the scroll, if it was typed at all. Most of it wasn’t typed. It was said on a call, and the thread has no line for that.
Why job group texts fall apart walks through the same week in more detail.
What Walkie does differently
Walkie Pro keeps the relationship and splits the jobs. One conversation with your electrician carries a separate feed for every job you share.
Every Walkie call is recorded, so nobody has to take notes. Hang up, and the summary is filed under the job you were talking about. If one call covered two jobs, each job gets its own summary.
Any message becomes a follow-up with a date on it. That list is private to you, and there’s no manager view of it.
See how a call becomes a job record.
Keep your group text when…
Keep your group text when there’s one job and nothing worth finding again next month. Keep it for the fast, everybody-sees-it messages a job still needs.
Bring the jobs you’re running into Walkie Pro, and leave the rest where it is.
Pick the one job with the most people on it, and move that one.
Questions
Why move off a group text when everybody already uses it?
You don't have to move everything at once. Start with one job and one person, and let the thread keep doing what it does well.
Do the people I work with have to pay?
No. Messages and calls are free on every plan, including Free. Free also turns 30 minutes of call time a month into transcripts and summaries.
Can I keep using iMessage and WhatsApp as well?
Yes, and most people do. Walkie Pro holds the jobs you're running. The thread keeps everything else.
What happens to the photos already in the thread?
They stay in the thread. Walkie Pro starts from the day you open it, and nothing is imported from your old messages.
Keep the record without writing it twice.
Walkie Pro is a construction communication app. It keeps the messages and calls you already make organized by job.