Fast Reply 2.0: blanks, shared libraries, and sync

2.0 is the release where Fast Reply stops being a list of saved messages and starts being a library you can actually run a business out of.

Everything below is in the app now. Your existing replies stay exactly as they were - there is nothing to migrate and nothing to re-file.

Fill-in-the-blank fields

The headline change. A saved reply can now contain blanks, and Fast Reply asks you what goes in each one at the moment you insert it:

Hi [name] - confirming [day] at [time]. I’ll send the address the morning of.

One reply now covers every appointment you will ever book, instead of ten near-identical copies that all need editing when something changes. And because the blank is a real field rather than a note to yourself, a message can’t go out with [name] still sitting in it.

Greeting, date, time and clipboard continue to resolve on their own, and your own details - name, business, phone - now come from a profile you fill in once.

Shared team libraries

Up to five people can work from one library. One person owns the wording, everyone answers with it, and when it changes it changes for everybody at once.

This was the most-requested thing by a distance, and always for the same reason: two people answering the same question from two private copies in Notes, drifting apart over months. The full write-up is here.

You can also hand any single folder to anyone with a private link. Installing a shared folder is free - the recipient doesn’t need Pro, or an account.

iCloud sync, with version history

Your library on every device. Earlier versions of a reply are kept, so editing one is no longer a one-way door - which matters much more once a team is editing shared wording.

Attachments

A logo, a price sheet, a link, pinned to a reply so the whole message goes out together instead of as a second message thirty seconds later.

AI Assist

Reword a reply warmer, shorter or more polished in one tap. It runs on device on supported iPhones, so the text doesn’t leave the phone to be fixed.

Deliberately narrow: it edits the reply you already wrote. It is not a chatbot that invents what you meant to say.

Smart collections and batch tools

Rules instead of filing - recently used, most used, everything matching a term - plus batch operations for reorganising a library that has grown past the point of doing it one reply at a time. Folders now nest, too.

What hasn’t changed

• Text insertion still needs no Full Access. Still only for sending images and the {{clipboard}} placeholder. Why, in detail.
• The free tier still covers using and sending every reply already in your library.
• If you had Fast Reply before Pro existed, your library stays fully editable, free, permanently.

Pro is $19.99 a year or $2.99 a month after a 7-day trial, and team seats are $9.99 each per year. Pricing, in full.