Comparison

Tape vs textcuts

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

Head to head
About

Tape

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טייפ מתמלל שיחות ומסכם אותן, בעברית או באנגלית. הכל נשמר במכשיר שלכם. נבנה בשביל ישראלים - עברית היא השפה שסביבה טייפ נבנה, ואנגלית גם נתמכת באופן מלא. מסתנכרן עם היומן שלכם ושולח התראות לפני אירועים ביומן כדי שכל שיחה תתומלל ותסוכם בהתאם. טייפ משתמש במודלי AI שרצים ומתמללים את האודיו על המכשיר שלכם, כדי לשמור על פרטיותכם ולהוזיל את עלות האפליקציה. סיכומי AI, הצעות מאנשי קשר, גיבוי וסנכרון בין מכשירים ושימוש בטייפים שלכם עם כלי AI אחרים זמינים במינוי בתשלום. תנאי שימוש (EULA): https://usetape.app/terms מדיניות פרטיות: https://usetape.app/privacy

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

Tape4 screens
textcuts4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tape and textcuts are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Tape sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month 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

Tape ships an update every 4 days, textcuts weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Tape versus textcuts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTapetextcuts
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size173 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOr GitBen Novak

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tape

Subscriptions2
  • Tape Plus Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Tape Plus Annual$34.991 Year
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 Tape free?
Tape is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is textcuts free?
textcuts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tape or textcuts have ads?
Neither Tape nor textcuts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tape or textcuts?
Tape ships an update every 4 days, and textcuts weekly. Most recently, Tape was updated on October 25, 2026 and textcuts on October 26, 2026.

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