Appointment reminders, 24h out.
Cut no-shows for salons, clinics, dentists. Queue the reminder when you book the appointment, and Scheduled fires it the day before — without you remembering.
Scheduled · SMS
Schedule SMS texts — reliable carrier delivery, planned in advance.
SMS lands on every phone — flip phones, Android, iPhones, the receptionist who refuses to install another app. Scheduled lets you queue the right reminder for the right hour, then your iPhone carrier sends it on cue.
Built for the practical text
When SMS is the channel that has to work.
Lead follow-ups, day three.
After the showing, after the discovery call, after the demo. Pre-write the 'thinking of you, here's what's next' text and let Scheduled deliver it when the lead is back at their desk.
Reach anyone with a mobile number.
Older relatives, the contractor who never opens email, the client who uses a feature-phone. SMS doesn't need an app, an account, or a smartphone — only a number that can receive texts.
Compose at night, send at 9am.
Late-night admin without late-night pings. Write at 11pm, schedule for the next business morning, and your contacts only see a polite weekday-hours text.
Why SMS
The channel everyone reads, fast.
Email gets archived. App notifications get muted. SMS still gets opened — and read inside a few minutes. Scheduled makes that channel work on your calendar, not the recipient's.
- 98%
- of SMS messages get opened
- 3 min
- median time-to-read for a text
- 9/10
- appointment-driven customers prefer SMS reminders
SMS-specific
What an SMS scheduler actually needs.
SMS isn't WhatsApp. Different delivery model, different limits, different etiquette — Scheduled handles every one.
Attach photos as MMS.
Drop a photo into the scheduled text and it goes out as MMS — useful for confirmation snapshots, location maps, or the headshot the client should look for at reception.
iMessage vs SMS, handled.
Texting another iPhone? Goes blue, no carrier charge. Texting Android, a landline, or anyone abroad? Drops to SMS automatically — Scheduled doesn't break either path.
Appointment-reminder templates.
Pre-baked formats for 'Your appointment is tomorrow at HH:MM with NAME' — fill the slots, queue the send. Drop them into a recurring weekly batch if you run a booking-heavy business.
Weekly follow-up cadences.
Drip three texts across two weeks to every new lead. Set the cadence once; Scheduled fires each text at the right interval and stops when the lead replies.
Pull from your iPhone contacts.
Pick recipients straight from the address book — no separate CRM, no CSV upload. Scheduled groups support up to a few dozen recipients at once for batch sends.
Delivery confirmation.
Scheduled tells you the moment your iPhone has handed the text to the carrier, plus surfaces any 'message not delivered' bounce-backs so you know to follow up.
How carrier delivery works
Your number, your carrier, your delivery.
Scheduled doesn't have its own SMS gateway you have to register a sender number with — it drives the Messages app on your iPhone, so texts come from your real phone number.
Step 01
Write the SMS — short, like an SMS.
160-character single segment is the sweet spot. Scheduled shows the live character count and warns you before the message splits into multiple billed segments.
Step 02
Choose recipient + time.
One contact, or a small group from your iPhone contacts. Pick the moment — today at 5pm, tomorrow at 9am, every Tuesday at noon.
Step 03
Carrier handles the delivery.
At send-time, your iPhone hands the text to Messages, Messages hands it to your carrier, and the carrier routes it via the standard SMS / iMessage network. No third-party gateway.
Step 04
Confirmation back to you.
Scheduled marks the text as sent and surfaces any delivery failures the carrier reports — so you can chase the recipient on another channel if the number's dead.
FAQ
SMS questions, answered.
- Whatever your normal carrier plan charges for outbound texts. Scheduled itself doesn't charge per message — it drives your iPhone's Messages app, so the same plan that covers your manual texts covers the scheduled ones. Most US carriers include unlimited texting; international texts may incur the usual roaming-style surcharge.
- Whichever your iPhone normally would. iPhone-to-iPhone goes blue (iMessage, over data). Anything else — Android, landline, international — drops to green SMS via the carrier. Scheduled doesn't override the choice; iOS does.
- Yes. Drop a photo into the compose view and the scheduled text goes out as MMS. MMS may count against a separate carrier allowance — check your plan if you send many image texts.
- Yes — the text comes from your iPhone, on your carrier, with your number as sender. There's no Twilio middleman or shared shortcode. Recipients can reply and the reply lands in your normal Messages thread.
- Yes. The text uses your carrier's international SMS rates — same as if you'd sent it manually. Scheduled doesn't add a markup; the carrier bill is whatever it would have been anyway.
- Because each text comes from your personal number, recipients reply or text STOP straight back into your Messages app. There's no separate compliance dashboard — but for business use you should still respect STOP requests manually and remove that contact from your scheduled lists.
- US carriers throttle bursts from personal numbers — sending hundreds of texts in a minute will look like spam to the carrier and may get filtered. Scheduled is built for one-to-few personal and small-business use, not bulk marketing. Spread sends across the day for groups of more than ~25.
- No. Scheduled drives your iPhone's Messages app directly — the carrier you already use is the sender. No separate API account, no sender ID registration, no 10DLC paperwork required for personal use.
Need WhatsApp?
If your contacts live on WhatsApp — international, family, group chats with rich media — that's a different channel and a different page.
See the WhatsApp schedulerWant all five channels?
Scheduled also covers iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram and Email from the same iPhone app. The hub page walks through every channel and the trade-offs.
See the full Scheduled overviewSchedule your first SMS.
Free on the App Store. Premium unlocks unlimited auto-send and the appointment-reminder templates.