PhoneLeash vs Relay

PhoneLeash automatically forwards texts that arrive on your iPhone to the email address of your choice—perfect for when your phone is in another room, or another country! See your texts in your email inbox, whether at work or just away from your iPhone. OTP-ONLY FORWARDING (NEW) Want just your verification codes? PhoneLeash can forward ONLY your one-time passcodes (OTP / 2FA codes) and skip all your regular texts. Perfect for keeping your login codes flowing to a second phone, a work device, or your email while you travel—without forwarding personal messages. Most SMS forwarders can't do this. Available as affordable OTP-only plans. SETUP (follow the step-by-step instructions in the app) 1. Install PhoneLeash 2. Enter your destination email 3. Install the packaged Shortcut (no need for any config, just Save and done!) 4. Create the Automation: "When I get a message containing [your keyword]" → run the PhoneLeash Shortcut. 5. Send yourself a test message, "Allow" the Shortcut. Done! WHAT YOU CAN DO • Access your texts when your phone is across the room • Get delivery, shipping, and appointment alerts at your work inbox • Get your texts while traveling internationally • Forward ONLY your 2FA / verification codes with OTP-only mode • Build an email archive of important conversations PRIVACY • Messages only transit through PhoneLeash's secure servers, while staying encrypted the whole way. They are not stored once processed. • PhoneLeash asks for Contacts permission to label your texts with both name and number. But this is optional, you can safely decline it without affecting functionality. • Your data is never sold, there are no ads. LIMITATIONS PhoneLeash is based on iOS Shortcuts and Automation, and that limits the feature set. Here are a few key limitations. • Attachments (photos, videos, audio) are not forwarded — only message text. • For group messages, the list of participants is not forwarded. Only the sender of the message and its content. • In high-traffic situations Shortcuts may not fire reliably, and some messages could be lost --- Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Get every text you wish to the place where you actually need it. Relay automatically forwards the iPhone messages that you choose to Telegram, WhatsApp, Email, Slack, and other destinations. One Apple Shortcut. Set up in 60 seconds. Runs forever. Advanced features like Quiet Hours, Duplicate Detection, Activity History, Approval, Smart Filters etc. makes Relay unique and powerful. REAL THINGS PEOPLE USE RELAY FOR Read OTPs on your laptop while your phone charges in another room. Get bank transaction alerts in Slack so your finance team sees them live. Forward delivery codes to WhatsApp so your partner can let the courier in when you are out. Mirror texts from a travel SIM to your primary chat when you are abroad. Share OTPs with a parent or partner who needs them across devices. Pipe verification codes into a private Telegram chat for searchable history. Send incoming SMS to your own webhook for automations like n8n, Make, or Zapier. Keep delivery, banking, and personal texts visible on your work computer without picking up the phone. WHERE YOU CAN FORWARD Telegram, with one tap pairing or your own bot WhatsApp, forwarding to a contact with one tap to confirm Email, any inbox: Gmail, Outlook, ProtonMail, custom domains Slack, post to any channel via webhook Discord, post to any channel via webhook Microsoft Teams, post via Power Automate flow Webhook, any URL for your own tooling Phone, forward to another iPhone via Shortcuts Free includes up to 3 destinations. Relay Pro unlocks unlimited - send the same text to multiple places at once. SMART ROUTING Decide where each kind of message goes. Bank alerts to email. OTPs to Telegram. Delivery codes to WhatsApp. Personal texts stay private. Filter by category, sender, or keyword. Combine criteria with AND inside a rule and OR across rules. QUIET HOURS Pause forwarding to specific destinations during specific hours. No 3am Slack pings. Day of week control. Overnight windows handled cleanly. LIGHT TRANSFORMS Customize how forwarded texts read at the destination. Add the sender as a prefix. Strip promotional footers. Remove bracketed prefixes so the message arrives clean. YOUR MESSAGES STAY ON YOUR DEVICE Every SMS, every routing rule, and every classification result lives on your iPhone. Relay never uploads your message content to our servers and never shares it with anyone except the destinations you choose. No account, no sign-in, no profile, no cloud sync of your messages. HOW IT WORKS For Relay to work properly, you have to configure an automation using Apple Shortcuts for the app to get access to new incoming SMS. Relay cannot directly access your text messages or messaging history. When the Shortcut automation runs, the message content and sender name pass through Relay, classify on device, and forward only to the destinations you have pre-configured. You can even set up a confirmation step before anything is forwarded. Setup takes 60 seconds. Runs forever. Never needs touching again. RELAY PRO Relay is free to use. For advanced use cases, you can opt for a paid subscription of Relay Pro, which unlocks unlimited forwarding, unlimited destinations, unlimited smart-filter rules, and your full activity history. Multiple subscription plans are available — weekly, monthly, and annual, with a free trial on the annual plan. Pricing is shown in your local currency at checkout. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://relaysms.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://relaysms.app/privacy