Mobilo does not have an iMessage API. Mobilo makes NFC digital business cards — a card, a band or a phone sticker that opens your profile when tapped — and positions itself as a lead-generation tool, syncing the contacts it captures into your CRM.
That CRM angle is probably why this particular confusion sticks. Mobilo genuinely does connect to Salesforce and HubSpot, so 'Mobilo integrates with your CRM' is true, and it sits one short inference away from 'Mobilo can message the contacts in your CRM' — which is not.
What Mobilo does and does not do
Mobilo actually does this
- NFC cards, bands and stickers
- A digital profile that opens on tap
- Lead capture forms at events
- Contact sync into Salesforce and HubSpot
- Team management and analytics on shares
Mobilo does not do this
- Send an iMessage
- Send an SMS or RCS message
- Expose any messaging API
- Provide a Node.js or Python messaging SDK
- Deliver anything into a blue bubble
If lead capture plus messaging is the actual goal
That is a genuinely good workflow — capture at an event, then follow up in a blue bubble within the hour. It just needs two tools. Keep Mobilo for capture, and read iMessage API for CRM integration and speed to lead for the follow-up half.
Why Mobilo ranks for this at all
Linq, one of Mobilo's direct competitors in digital business cards, pivoted into messaging infrastructure and launched a real iMessage API. Search engines and language models that had learned to group these companies together carried the messaging association across to all of them. The mechanism is set out fully in why business card companies show up in iMessage API searches.
What to use instead
If you need to send iMessages from code, Mobilo is not a candidate — but there are eight or so vendors that genuinely are. The shortest path through them:
- Start with [who sells an iMessage API](/answers/who-sells-an-imessage-api) for the full map of who is real and who is not.
- Check [what it costs](/pricing) — published entry pricing runs from a free tier to about $100 per line per month, and the cheap tiers sometimes cannot send outbound.
- Read [does Apple have an iMessage API](/answers/does-apple-have-an-imessage-api) if you have not yet, because the answer is no and it shapes everything else.
- Compare the shortlist on [providers](/providers), where the feature grid shows who actually supports webhooks, group chats and SMS fallback.
If you actually wanted the digital business card
Mobilo is a real product and a good one at what it does. This page is only about the messaging API it does not have — nothing here is a criticism of the thing it does sell.
Common questions
- Does Mobilo have an iMessage API?
- No. Mobilo makes NFC digital business cards with lead capture and CRM sync. It has no iMessage, SMS or RCS API.
- Can Mobilo send text messages to leads?
- Mobilo captures contacts and pushes them into your CRM. Sending messages to those contacts is the job of a separate messaging tool.