Comparison

Live Shortcut vs textcuts

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

Head to head
About

Live Shortcut

Easily integrate your existing automations with Live Activities. Display reminders and important information on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island to ensure you never miss a thing.

Highlights
  • Integrate automations with Live Activities
  • Display reminders on Lock Screen
  • Utilize Dynamic Island for notifications
  • Easy setup for existing shortcuts
  • Customizable display options
Features
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Turn your shortcuts into Live Activities on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Live Shortcut puts the information from your automations where you can see it. Create a quick note in the app, or use Apple Shortcuts to display text from your own workflows. YOUR SHORTCUTS, AT A GLANCE Keep a reminder in sight, show a workflow result, or display a message when an automation runs. BUILT AROUND YOUR ROUTINE Choose what appears and when using your own Shortcuts automations. For example, display a garage-door reminder after your shortcut checks whether the door is open. MAKE IT YOURS Personalize your Live Activities with icons and color themes. Support for triggering another shortcut helps connect the next step in your workflow. MORE WITH PREMIUM Unlock additional customization, custom and built-in icons, multiple Live Activities, and control over which activities to end using identifiers. Create your first Live Activity and put your shortcuts in sight. Requires iOS 16.4 or later. Dynamic Island requires a compatible iPhone. Live Activity duration and visibility are managed by iOS. Some features require Premium. Privacy: https://andrewbfang.com/privacyPolicy.html Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

textcuts

Streamline your communication by saving and instantly inserting frequently used messages. Personalize templates with fill-in fields for names or dates, and share them with your team. Works across all your messaging and email apps.

Highlights
  • Save and insert pre-written messages
  • Personalize messages with fill-in fields
  • Works in any app
  • Share message templates with teams
  • Organize messages with folders and search
  • Optional iCloud sync for privacy
Features
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textcuts is a business keyboard for people who send the same kinds of messages all day: follow ups, price answers, booking confirmations, product intros and thank you notes. Save each message once as a textcut, then insert it with one tap inside any app you already use, with the client's name filled in. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO SELL BY MESSAGE If you answer leads and customers from your phone, you type the same ten messages every day. textcuts keeps them as colored chips inside your keyboard. Tap one and the whole message lands in the text field, ready to send. No copying from Notes, no switching apps. PERSONAL, NOT COPY AND PASTE Mark the parts that change as fill in fields, like a name, a date or an address. When you tap the chip, textcuts asks for the value, fills it in and inserts a message that reads like you wrote it just now. With Pro, the values you used recently come back with one tap. WORKS IN EVERY APP textcuts is a keyboard, so it works anywhere you type: Messages, WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business, Instagram DMs, Messenger, Telegram, Gmail and Mail, LinkedIn, Slack, your CRM, and web forms in Safari or Chrome. WHO USES TEXTCUTS • Network marketing and direct sales: product intros, invites, reorder reminders • Real estate agents: showing follow ups, open house invites, offer updates • Insurance and mortgage agents: quote follow ups, renewal reminders • Car sales: test drive confirmations, follow ups after a visit • Sales teams, SDRs and recruiters: outreach openers, meeting confirmations • Affiliate marketers and creators: DM replies, promo codes, collab pitches • Online shop owners: shipping, returns and order status answers • Coaches, clinics and salons: booking confirmations, reminders, directions ONE SCRIPT FOR THE WHOLE TEAM Share any textcut with a link; whoever opens it adds it to their own keyboard in one tap. To hand over a whole library, export it to a file and your teammates import it. Everyone sends the same tested wording. Not sure what to save first? Copy the ready made prompt, ask your AI assistant to write your messages, and import the answer. ORGANIZED FOR A BUSY DAY Group textcuts into color coded folders such as Leads, Follow up and Team, and find any message with search. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account and no sign in. Your textcuts stay on your iPhone and, if sync is on, in your own private iCloud. We cannot read them. The keyboard never reads or sends what you type in other apps, and Full Access is optional. Optional anonymous analytics send event names, counts and a textcut's title, never its message text or the values you fill in, and can be turned off in Settings. FREE TO START, PRO FOR MORE Free includes 8 textcuts, 1 folder and 1 fill in field per textcut, plus the keyboard, search, iCloud sync, dark mode, and import and export. textcuts Pro adds unlimited textcuts, folders and fill in fields, and recently used values. Choose monthly, yearly, or a one time lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in the app in your local currency. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://textcuts.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://textcuts.com/privacy.html QUESTIONS Is textcuts a text expander? Yes, without shortcodes to memorize. You tap the message you want. Does it work with WhatsApp Business? Yes, anywhere the iPhone keyboard appears. Do I need Full Access? No. It only adds recent values, haptics and insert counts. Which languages? English plus eight more app languages, and the keyboard types in any language. Type it once. Send it forever.

Screenshots

Live Shortcut4 screens
textcuts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: textcuts at none against Live Shortcut's shown. textcuts also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Live Shortcut's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Live Shortcut sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per year and textcuts sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Live Shortcut ships an update every 2 months, textcuts weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Live Shortcut versus textcuts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLive Shortcuttextcuts
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew FangBen Novak

Customer experience

Live Shortcut

Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative20.0%

textcuts

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Live Shortcut

Subscriptions1
  • Premium (Yearly)$0.991 Year
One-time2
  • Premium$0.99
  • Premium Lifetime$6.99
3 purchases

textcuts

Subscriptions2
  • textcuts מנוי חודשי$3.991 Month
  • textcuts מנוי שנתי$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • textcuts מנוי לכל החיים$49.99

Questions

Is Live Shortcut free?
Live Shortcut is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is textcuts free?
textcuts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Live Shortcut or textcuts have ads?
Live Shortcut shows ads; textcuts does not.
Which is updated more often, Live Shortcut or textcuts?
Live Shortcut ships an update every 2 months, and textcuts weekly. Most recently, Live Shortcut was updated on October 24, 2026 and textcuts on October 26, 2026.

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