Comparisons
How Fast Reply compares
Fast Reply is an iPhone and iPad keyboard for saved replies, with two ways in: type a short trigger to expand a reply, or browse a labelled list and tap it. These pages set it against the built-in iOS feature and the other apps in the category, including what each of them does better than we do.
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Fast Reply vs Apple Text Replacement
Text Replacement is free, built in, and works everywhere on iOS with nothing to install - for short fixed strings it is the right answer. It stops at four walls: nothing is browsable, so you must remember the abbreviation; one flat list, no folders; nothing in a phrase can change per message; and no attachments or sharing. Fast Reply exists for the replies that hit those walls.
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Fast Reply vs WordBoard
WordBoard and Fast Reply solve the same core problem - saved phrases on the iPhone keyboard - and both do it well. WordBoard is the stronger pick for emoji and kaomoji boards and offers a lifetime purchase. Fast Reply goes further on the things that matter for work replies: blanks filled in as you send, folders inside folders, iCloud sync, and handing a whole folder to a colleague by private link.
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Fast Reply vs Paste Keyboard
Paste Keyboard is the most established app in this category and its free tier is unlimited, paid for with ads. Fast Reply has no ads at any tier and no unlimited free tier - five of your own replies, then Pro. The functional gap is in structure: Paste Keyboard uses flat tabs, while Fast Reply has folders inside folders, blanks that fill as you send, sync and folder sharing by private link.
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Fast Reply vs Copied
These are two different tools that overlap at the keyboard. Copied is a clipboard history manager with a Mac app - it captures what you copy so you can paste it back later. Fast Reply is for replies you wrote deliberately and want to send again, with blanks filled in as they go out; it has no clipboard history.
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Fast Reply vs TextExpander
TextExpander is built around typing an abbreviation from memory, and works across Mac, Windows and iOS. Fast Reply is iPhone-first: you can type a trigger the same way, or browse a labelled list and tap the reply when you have forgotten the code. Pick TextExpander if you type mostly on a desktop and need Windows; pick Fast Reply if the phone is where you actually answer. If you are searching from a Mac, that is the trade-off in one line: Fast Reply does not run there, so the question is whether the phone is where your replies actually get written.
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Why these say nice things about other apps
Because a comparison page that only flatters the app that published it is an advert, and everyone can tell. Each page carries a plain paragraph on why you might pick the other one - a lifetime price instead of a subscription, a Mac app, an unlimited free tier, emoji boards. If that paragraph describes you, buy theirs.
Where a competitor's listing did not state something either way, the table says "Not confirmed" rather than counting it as a No.
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Then never type it again. Free to download, no account and no card - five replies of your own, and the keyboard in every app. Pro is $19.99 a year or $2.99 a month after a 7-day trial.
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