--- title: Phrase Express Reviews meta_title: 'Phrase Express Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 14 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Phrase Express works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.3 review_count: 14 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Phrase Express Reviews **Vendor:** Bartels Media **Category:** [Text Expanders Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/text-expanders) **Average Rating:** 3.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About Phrase Express PhraseExpress is available for Windows and the Autotext App for Android provides the productivity benefits on tablet or smartphone devices. PhraseExpress can organize canned responses not only in a simple folder structure but also in multiple dimensions. PhraseExpress integrates a powerful Macro Recorder to record and playback repetitive tasks. ## Phrase Express Reviews ### 1. Buggy, no support **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taz M. | Customer Service, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Phrase Express?** - Quick to setup and use - Also quick to post the snippets unlike some competition which has delays that cause you to pause while they work - Mostly intuitive to use for basic text expansion functionality - Ability to share a library **What do you dislike about Phrase Express?** - Constant bugs (over 5 years of usage on and off) that move the cursor within some webpages and software which means 1 sentence can take you 10-15 seconds longer to type as you fix the errors it introduces - No support for bugs, even if they mean you cannot use the software as advertised through no fault of your own - The key system is specific to your OS, so if you have a Mac at work and Windows laptop at home like me you must pay twice, which with the bugs that render this useless, puts you out of pocket for no good reason. I understand development costs for different platforms is probably why they do this, I don't have to like that as an end user. **What problems is Phrase Express solving and how is that benefiting you?** - The problems it solves are sharing links and long repetitive descriptions/words quickly, it's just a shame it ruins all the other typing you do around that to the point I have to constantly turn it off! Part of my job involves live streaming and managing chats which makes having it on gitching, or off unable to quickly supply links very stressful. ### 2. PhraseExpress saves zero time **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert F. | Engineer **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Phrase Express?** Theoretically, there is a portable version, but it is plain useless **What do you dislike about Phrase Express?** Crashes, all the time, phrases break after 2 or 3 usages **What problems is Phrase Express solving and how is that benefiting you?** The time you gain from automating things is equal to the time to recover from PhraseExpress crashes, hanging or wrong execution. ### 3. Phrase Express Pricing Is A Scam **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Phrase Express?** Pricing was reasonable, if only it was honest. The software itself works, just be cautious that you are not actually paying for a real lifetime license. **What do you dislike about Phrase Express?** They advertise their pricing as lifetime, one time fee, but in reality you will have to pay for it again... here's how they get you. The "lifetime" license is only good for whatever software version you got, so you don't get any updates. So if you failed to read the fine print and noticed their "you are responsibly for backing up the installer because we don't keep archives of old installations" then you're screwed, you have to pay for all your licenses again. Phrase express is a scam and should consider switching to honest and transparent pricing. I will not be paying for another 5 "lifetime" team licenses with this scam company. **Recommendations to others considering Phrase Express:** Read the fine print, as long as you realize the life time license is a scam. **What problems is Phrase Express solving and how is that benefiting you?** pasting phrases, lots of email templates, long history of copy and paste on your clipboard history which is useful. Just wish they were an honest company. ## Phrase Express Discussions - [What is Phrase Express used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-phrase-express-used-for) - [View Phrase Express pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/phrase-express/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=1§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+16%3A00%3A31+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=04012ddd-e924-42db-805d-593bc1296390&secure%5Btoken%5D=f6545b04ea15a2769c1d3740f216c4d3dd111f7afdeff9d4d4ab7d9e5ce92dcf&format=llm_user) ## Phrase Express Features **Additional Functionality** - Third-Party Integrations - To-Do List - @mentions - Single Sign On - File Management - Activity Dashboard - Drag & Drop - Alerts/Notifications - Prioritization - Access Controls/Permissions - Screen Sharing - Content Management - Brainstorming - AI Copilot - File Transfer - Calendar Management - Status Tracking - Real-Time Notifications - Version Control - Task Management - Activity Tracking - Real Time Editing - Communication Management - Chat/Messaging - Tagging - Generative AI - Assignment Management - Task Scheduling - Project Management - Collaboration Tools - Workflow Management - Secure Data Storage - File Sharing - Document Storage - Task Progress Tracking - Discussions/Forums - Commenting/Notes - Reporting & Statistics - Contact Management - Video Conferencing - Progress Tracking - Mobile Access - API - Document Management - Customizable Branding **Platform - Text Expanders** - Sharing - Interface - Library - Integrations ## Top Phrase Express Alternatives - [TextExpander](https://www.g2.com/products/textexpander/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (461 reviews) - [aText](https://www.g2.com/products/atext/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (17 reviews) - [Magical](https://www.g2.com/products/magical/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (73 reviews)