{"id":337209,"date":"2017-03-31T00:52:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1471020"},"modified":"2017-03-31T00:52:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:52:11","slug":"scheduled-is-a-new-app-that-lets-you-schedule-your-text-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/scheduled-is-a-new-app-that-lets-you-schedule-your-text-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheduled is a new app that lets you schedule your text messages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Want to remember to tell a friend happy birthday, good luck or congratulations? Had a follow-up question for a client that just occurred to you at\u00a01 AM? Want to write a heartfelt thank you to be texted at a later date? Unfortunately, neither SMS nor most messaging apps \u2013 including iMessage \u2013 allow you to draft a text\u00a0in advance and schedule it to be sent out on a later date. But a new iOS application called Scheduled<\/a> can help.<\/p>\n

To be clear, the app does not actually schedule texts for\u00a0automatic<\/em> sending.<\/p>\n

For that, you\u2019d need to hack\u00a0your iPhone and use one of the jailbreak apps<\/a>\u00a0instead. Apple does not allow for this functionality, officially.<\/p>\n

What Scheduled does is offer an App Store-approved workaround\u00a0for scheduling texts.<\/p>\n

The app itself is simple and straightforward to use.<\/p>\n

You first select the person you want to text from your Contacts, then write the text you want to send and select the time you want to be reminded to send the text. When that time rolls around, Scheduled sends you a push notification so you can return to the app to send the text.<\/p>\n

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After sending, a quick swipe will delete the reminder from the app\u2019s queue.<\/p>\n

Scheduled isn\u2019t only for SMS or iMessage, however \u2013 it also supports messaging apps like Telegram, WhatsApp,\u00a0Messenger, Twitter, and it allows you to copy the message\u2019s text to paste it into any other app of your choice. It can be used for reminding you of emails or phone calls, too.<\/p>\n

Further down the road, Scheduled plans to add support for LinkedIn and Slack, and it will roll out a few tweaks to the sending flow, Apple Watch integration, and Android support at some point.<\/p>\n

To be fair, there are other text message scheduling apps on the App Store, but Scheduled\u2019s interface is clean and modern, compared with those I\u2019ve seen previously.<\/p>\n

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    The app itself is a product from\u00a0Brthrs Agency, a digital agency just outside Amsterdam in\u00a0The Netherlands, which does a combination of client work and startup<\/a> investing<\/a>. \u00a0The team, which consists of Sebastiaan Kooijman and Robert Keus, tells TechCrunch that Scheduled is currently a bootstrapped company project. They\u2019re considering making it a startup of its own, if it achieves traction.<\/p>\n

    The team\u00a0says the plan to make money is to charge $0.99 if you want to add four or more messages to\u00a0the queue.<\/p>\n

    Of course, many users are already asking for auto-send functionality following the app\u2019s launch a few days ago, but this is not something that Apple permits.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe are investigating the options [for auto-send],\u201d says Keus, \u201cbut it\u2019s hard from a technical perspective. And our concept is to support people to\u00a0be thoughtful,\u201d he adds. \u201cWhen we have auto-send then people can act like robots.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Agreed.<\/p>\n

    Scheduled is currently a free download on the iTunes App Store.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \"\" Want to remember to tell a friend happy birthday, good luck or congratulations? Had a follow-up question for a client that just occurred to you at\u00a01 AM? Want to write a heartfelt thank you to be texted at a later date? Unfortunately, neither SMS nor most messaging apps – including iMessage – allow you to draft a text\u00a0in advance and schedule it to be sent out on a later date. But… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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