Text Delay vs Sms Planner
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
Sms Planner
Schedule appointments and deadlines for clients, then send personalized SMS, email, or instant messages to remind them. It integrates with iPhone and Google calendars and allows for location-specific details. This app is designed for professionals who manage client appointments.
- Schedule appointments and deadlines
- Send personalized SMS, email, WhatsApp, Telegram
- Sync with iPhone and Google calendars
- Specify appointment addresses
- Print weekly appointment calendar
- Send special announcement messages
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SmsPlanner is dedicated to professionals who work with customers by appointment. Are you a doctor, lawyer, or do you offer services of various kinds? Do you want to remember appointments or the various deadlines to your customers? SmsPlanner is for you !!! With SmsPlanner you can schedule appointments and deadlines of your customers and then send your personalized SMS, email, WhatsApp, and Telegram to remind individual appointments. To work properly WhatsApp, you must enter the international prefix of cellular numbers in your contacts (eg "+44" for United Kingdom numbers). You can send a SINGLE message for appointment, or a single message with the SUMMARY of the appointments of a given period. It is also possible to send SPECIAL messages (greetings, announcements, communications, etc ...). SmsPlanner can send the appointments to calendars on your iPhone and can synchronize with calendars configured on your Google account. Those who use Google calendars must first add them on the iPhone, and then select them within SmsPlanner by choosing them from the list of iOS calendars. SmsPlanner allows you to specify days and hours for each appointment, but if you get your customers in multiple locations, you can also specify the single address (street and city). In addition, you can print the weekly calendar of appointments. This new version replaces and unifies the previous Free and Paid APP, including all features with no limits and no advertising. There is a free 60-day user license, after which it is possible to purchase further extensions of 1 month, 6 months, or 1 year. If you need to SHARE and SYNCHRONIZE your appointments with all your devices, you can download the dedicated version SmsPlanner-E. This also allows you to PAIR your devices to those of OTHER PEOPLE (colleagues, friends, etc.) via QR code. For suggestions, requests and comments, please write to: info@smsplanner.it NOTE: sending of SMS is done from your iPhone, then the cost of the messages will be charged according to the tariff plan subscribed by your telephone company.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sms Planner at 5.0 against Text Delay's 2.1. Sms Planner also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Text Delay's advantage is ratings volume (48 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Sms Planner sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sms Planner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Delay has 48 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Text Delay ships an update every 2 months, Sms Planner every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Delay | Sms Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (48 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nick Walter | Alessandro de Sanctis |
Customer experience
Text Delay
Sms Planner
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
Sms Planner
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
Sms Planner
- 1 Month license$2.99
- 6 Months license$12.99
- 1 Year license$22.99
Questions
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