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TellAndReply · Templates for SMS and iMessage
Write it once. Send it again and again.
The same message twice a week, only the date changes. TellAndReply keeps your wording as a template, asks for what is different and hands the finished text to Messages.
iPhone and iPad · no account · nothing leaves your device
Placeholders
Running late, I will be there at [Time].
Running late, I will be there at 6:30 pm.
How it works
Three taps to a finished message
The wording stays. Only the details change.
- 1
Write the template
Type the message once and drop in a placeholder wherever the wording changes. "Running late, I will be there at [Time]."
- 2
Fill in the details
When you send, the app asks for exactly those spots. A time picker for the time, your current address for the location, nothing typed twice.
- 3
Send it
The finished text lands in Apple Messages with the recipient already set. You read it over and press send.
Features
Everything you need for recurring messages
Built for the messages you write again and again: running late, on my way, see you at.
22 placeholders
Date, time, weekday, minutes and hours from now, digits, amounts, address, recipient name and the track you are listening to.
Contacts and groups
Import contacts from your address book and bundle them into groups. One message to the whole team, the club or the family.
Location without typing
City, street, postcode, full address or country, taken from where you are right now. Your location is used for the message and not stored anywhere else.
iCloud sync
Templates, contacts and groups follow you from iPhone to iPad through your own private iCloud database. Included, no extra charge.
Apple Messages does the sending
The app never sends on its own. It prepares the text and opens Messages, so SMS and iMessage behave exactly as you know them.
Placeholders
The parts that change every time
A placeholder marks a spot in the text. When you send, the app asks for that spot and puts the value in.
"Sorry, running late. I will be there at [Time] in [City]."
Date and time
Date · Time · Date and time · Weekday · Minutes
From now
In X minutes · In X hours · Arrival time
Numbers and amounts
One to four digits · Amount with currency
Location
City · Street · Postcode · Full address · Country
Person
Name of the recipient
Music
Track · Artist · Album
Privacy
Your messages stay yours
A messaging helper reads contacts, location and your music. That is a lot of trust, so here is exactly what happens with it.
No server of ours
The app has no backend. There is no address it could send your templates or contacts to.
No account, no tracking
No registration, no analytics, no advertising. We do not learn that you use the app, let alone what you write.
iCloud stays private
Sync runs through your own private iCloud database. Apple grants us no access to it and we never asked for any.
Permissions only when needed
Contacts, location and music are read the moment you use them and only then. iOS asks first, and no is a valid answer.
In action
Screenshots
See TellAndReply on the iPhone.
Free and Pro
Try it first, unlock it once
The free version is a real version, not a trial. It ends when three templates are no longer enough.
Free
- Three templates
- Sending to single contacts
- All 22 placeholders
- Location and music
- iCloud sync
Tell & Reply Pro
- Unlimited templates
- Recipient groups
- One purchase, no subscription
- No running cost
- Everything from the free version
One purchase per Apple Account. No subscription, no renewal, no in-app advertising.
Download
Get TellAndReply
For iPhone and iPad. Requires iOS 18 or later.
TellAndReply is in review at the App Store. The download link lands here as soon as it is live.
Support
Questions, ideas, something broken?
Write to us. A real developer reads the mail, not a ticket robot.
support@spiritdev.de