Text Expander vs TextExpander
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Text Expander | TextExpander |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 100 Factories | TextExpander, Inc. |
Customer experience
Text Expander
TextExpander
In-app purchases
Text Expander
- Weekly$4.997 Days
- Yearly Plan7 Days trial$17.991 Year
TextExpander
No in-app purchases
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