Comparison

InspireScapes vs TextExpander

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

InspireScapes

Display inspiring quotes and beautiful nature scenes directly on your Home Screen. Personalize your device with daily motivation, choose from various quote categories and text styles, and save your favorite combinations.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets
  • Daily quote and image inspiration
  • Customizable quote categories
  • Multiple text styles
  • Save favorite quotes and images
  • Optional daily reminders
  • Save to Photos feature
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Put inspiring quotes and beautiful landscapes on your Home Screen. Add an InspireScapes widget for a daily moment of motivation, without opening the app. A forest, a mountain view, a few words worth remembering. InspireScapes brings them together in a photo-and-quote widget you can see alongside your apps. Make space for a little encouragement when you start your morning, take a break, or return to your day. MAKE YOUR HOME SCREEN MORE PERSONAL Add a medium or large widget on iPhone or iPad. Enjoy daily inspiration, or change the image and quote yourself with up to five free refreshes a day. The app includes a guide to adding your widget. CHOOSE WORDS THAT SPEAK TO YOU Select quote categories including General, Sport, Music, Business, and IT. Choose a text style: Minimal, Bold, Cinematic, or Calm. KEEP YOUR FAVORITES CLOSE Save image-and-quote combinations to Favorites and revisit the ones you want to remember. Turn on an optional daily reminder at a time that works for you. TAKE A FAVORITE VIEW WITH YOU Save an image with its quote to Photos, then set it as your wallpaper in your device's settings. Saving is available with Premium or after earning a rewarded-ad unlock, when an ad is available. MORE WITH PREMIUM An optional in-app purchase unlocks: - Unlimited manual refreshes - Access to premium images - Your own quotes and authors - Saving to Photos without watching an ad - An ad-free experience Start with the free version, which includes ads. No account is needed. Premium is optional. Download InspireScapes, choose your topics, and add your first widget. Your next glance at your Home Screen could be a little more inspiring.

About

TextExpander

Access your saved text snippets and expand them instantly across any app on your iPhone and iPad. This keyboard app offers features like autocorrect, emoji search, and swipe typing, making it easier to input frequently used phrases, addresses, or links.

Highlights
  • Instant text expansion via custom abbreviations
  • Customizable keyboard with swipe typing
  • Emoji search and suggestions
  • Autocorrect and long-press for accented characters
  • Snippet suggestions in the suggestion strip
  • Fill-ins for dynamic snippet content
Features
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Your TextExpander snippets, on your iPhone and iPad. Sign in with your TextExpander account to access your snippet library at your fingertips. Type ";addr" to expand to your mailing address. Type "zcal" to expand to a link to your schedule / availability. You can type it in Messages, in Mail, in Slack, in your CRM, in your EHR. You get the idea. Your shared snippets are readily synced with the rest of your team. A KEYBOARD WITH SNIPPETS, SWIPE, EMOJI, AND AUTOCORRECT Swipe across the keys, and TextExpander now matches your path to English words and to your abbreviations. Swiped abbreviations automatically expand to their snippets. Plus you have everything else that you'd expect in a keyboard: Autocorrect, emojis (searchable by name, with skin tones, and recents), long-press for accented characters, one-handed mode, haptic feedback, and undo/redo. SNIPPETS THAT COME TO YOU Start typing, and matching snippets appear in the suggestion strip beside your word suggestions. Tap it to expand it. You never need to go looking. PERSONALIZE AND CUSTOMIZE WHAT YOU TYPE Fill-ins give superpowers to your TextExpander snippets, and they work in the app as well. Type the abbreviation, complete your fill-ins, and send. WHAT YOU NEED A TextExpander account, created at textexpander.com. Then add the keyboard in Settings and switch on Full Access (TextExpander needs this to read your abbreviations and insert your snippets). Your snippets now work everywhere you type.

Screenshots

InspireScapes3 screens
TextExpander4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: InspireScapes at 5.0 against TextExpander's 3.6. TextExpander's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. InspireScapes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TextExpander asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

InspireScapes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
InspireScapes versus TextExpander: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInspireScapesTextExpander
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better3.6 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings29 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB114 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAleksei GavrilovTextExpander, Inc.

Customer experience

InspireScapes

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TextExpander

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

InspireScapes

One-time1
  • Premium$3.99
None

TextExpander

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is InspireScapes free?
InspireScapes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TextExpander free?
TextExpander is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, InspireScapes or TextExpander?
InspireScapes is rated higher. InspireScapes averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while TextExpander averages 3.6 from 9 ratings.
Do InspireScapes or TextExpander have ads?
InspireScapes shows ads; TextExpander does not.

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