Text Delay vs Reminder Text
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Delay
Schedule texts, tweets, and emails to be sent at a later time. Automate message delivery for convenience and to ensure messages are sent at the optimal moment. Offers a premium service for fully automatic sending without user interaction.
- Schedule text messages
- Schedule tweets
- Schedule emails
- Automatic message sending
- Delayed message delivery
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** Over 250,000 messages have been scheduled using Text Delay! Thank you for all the support. ** Delay sending your texts, send when they make sense! Send texts, tweets and emails when it's the right time. This app also offers Text Delay Plus. A service that sends texts automatically when you want them sent. It's not a reminder, you don't have to tap anything, it just sends your text when you want it sent. Terms of Use: https://textdelay.app/terms
Reminder Text
Schedule SMS text reminders quickly and easily for personal use. Get started with free reminders and upgrade to a plan for more. Offers options for limited or unlimited scheduling, with advanced features like repeating reminders in higher tiers.
- Schedule SMS reminders
- Quick and easy setup
- Free initial reminders
- Purchase in-app plans
- Unlimited reminder options
- Repeating reminder scheduling (beta)
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A simple way to schedule sms text reminders! Schedule a reminder quickly and easily. You get a few free reminders when you download the app and you can purchase a plan in-app to schedule more. We have to charge for usage because we have to pay phone carriers to send the reminders. *Note: This app is designed for personal use and does not allow sending reminders to other people. Plans: Starter * Perfect if you just want to schedule a few reminders each week (up to 15/month) Plus * Schedule unlimited reminders each month! Pro * Unlimited reminders * (beta) Schedule repeating reminders (daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly) Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Credits: Our preview images were created using 'Previewed' at https://previewed.app/template/76BE872C
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Reminder Text at 78% against Text Delay's 15%. Reminder Text also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.1). Text Delay's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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 Delay sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Reminder Text sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Reminder Text holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 48 and 120 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of Text Delay's written reviews are positive against 78% of Reminder Text's.
Text Delay ships an update every 2 months, Reminder Text every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Delay | Reminder Text |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (48 ratings) | 4.8 (120 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.0% of reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 48 | 120 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nick Walter | Andrew Sverdrup |
Customer experience
Text Delay
Reminder Text
Bugs and requests
Text Delay
Reported bugs
12 issues- Scheduled messages fail to send despite appearing sent
- Messages marked 'overdue' without being delivered
- Auto-send feature requires manual send despite paid subscription
- Texts send from random/unknown phone numbers instead of user's number
- App crashes during message composition and sending
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- Support email contact form greyed out and non-functional
- Signature not saving or persisting in app
- No account recovery mechanism for forgotten credentials
- Notification system fails to alert users at scheduled times
- Messages sent with app advertisement footer
- Free version lacks any meaningful functionality
- Premium features still unavailable after purchase
Requested features
13 requests- One-time purchase option instead of monthly subscription
- True automatic text sending without manual intervention
- Send texts from user's own phone number
- Edit functionality for pending/scheduled messages
- Ability to resend previously sent messages at different times
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- iMessage support in addition to SMS
- Email scheduling with auto-send capability
- Social media post scheduling with auto-send
- Proper signature saving and display
- Account recovery options (forgot password/username)
- Multiple contact support options (phone, chat, etc.)
- No signature option for messages
- Expand to other communication platforms
Reminder Text
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Delay
- Text Delay Plus - Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Text Delay Plus - 3 Months7 Days trial$26.993 Months
- Text Delay Plus - 6 Months7 Days trial$47.996 Months
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- Text Delay Plus - Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Add 1 Month$4.99
- Add 3 Months$12.99
- Add 6 Months$24.99
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- Add 1 Year$44.99
Reminder Text
- Starter$0.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Plus$4.991 Month
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- Starter$9.491 Year
- Pro$9.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$47.991 Year
- Plus$47.991 Year
- Pro$95.991 Year
- Reminder Text 20 Reminders$0.99
- Reminder Text 50 Reminders$1.99
- Reminder Text 115 Reminders$3.99
