Comparison

Text Expander vs TextExpander

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

Head to head
About

Text Expander

Save and quickly paste frequently used text from a custom keyboard. Streamline your messaging, emails, and social media with reusable templates and snippets. Ideal for anyone who types the same content repeatedly.

Highlights
  • Save and paste text snippets from custom keyboard
  • Reusable templates for quick replies
  • Copy saved image snippets
  • Magic Variables for dynamic content
  • Organize snippets with labels and color markers
  • Preview snippets before use
Features
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Tired of typing the same replies over and over again? Snippet Kit lets you save your most-used text and paste it from a custom keyboard in one tap. Create snippets in the app, then open the Snippet Kit keyboard when you need quick replies, saved links, contact details, checklists, captions, or everyday templates. It is designed for anyone who sends the same text across messages, email, social apps, and support workflows. WHY SNIPPET KIT • Paste saved text snippets from a custom keyboard • Keep quick replies and reusable templates ready while typing • Copy saved image snippets from the keyboard • Use Magic Variables for clipboard content, selected text, cursor placement, random choices, and formatted dates • Preview snippets in the app before you use them • Organize snippets with labels, color markers, and manual ordering GREAT FOR • Customer support replies • Frequently sent links and addresses • Social media responses and captions • Appointment reminders and follow-ups • Work templates and repeated personal messages Snippet Kit helps you type less, switch apps less, and send faster, more consistent replies. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

Text Expander4 screens
TextExpander4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TextExpander at none against Text Expander's 2. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Text Expander sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. TextExpander asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Text Expander against 5.0 for TextExpander. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Text Expander versus TextExpander: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText ExpanderTextExpander
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB114 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer100 FactoriesTextExpander, Inc.

Customer experience

Text Expander

All ratings1 ratings
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

2 purchases

Text Expander

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Yearly Plan7 Days trial$17.991 Year
None

TextExpander

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Expander free?
Text Expander 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, Text Expander or TextExpander?
Text Expander and TextExpander are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Text Expander or TextExpander have ads?
Neither Text Expander nor TextExpander shows ads.

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