User Reviews

  Nagware  

• Interface: 3
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 4
• Overall:

It is an excellent program,and I have rated it so. However, it has a built in system of calculating how much money it is saving for you by auto-entering phrases, and when this number hits $20 it starts throwing screens at you asking you to buy the program as it thinks you are a commercial user. It would have been OK if this screen only hit you once a day or so, but it keeps popping up every few minutes and you have to wait for 5 seconds it you want to say "No" to buying it. If you choose "Yes", you are taken to their website, where a message comes asking you not to buy anything now, as they are soon going to release the new version of this software.

  Nagware, unfortunately  

• Interface: 1
• Features: 3
• Ease of use: 3
• Value: 4
• Overall:

This would be a good product, provided free for non-commercial use by its authors. Unfortunately, it's nagware. After using it for some time, it starts popping up a nag screen requesting purchase, saying that the usage appears to be commercial. This is insidious because reviewers will write favorable reviews based on initial experience. The nag popups come later, after the reviews have been posted. If the authors are serious about providing this useful program free for home users, they'll discontinue the annoying nag popups. Otherwise, it's just another example of nagware. Caveat emptor, if one can say that about a free program.

  Great at first, then annoying  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 3
• Ease of use: 1
• Value: 1
• Overall:

This was wonderful at first, then extremely annoying when the nag screens kept telling me that the program had determined 'commercial use'. Huh? Just normal macro insertions once or twice a day in Word documents. The developer needs to lighten up on this a bit. Also, formatting usually goes to Times New Roman when used in Outlook. Too bad. Could have been a great help.

  Response by software author  

Thank you for sharing your experience with PhraseExpress. PhraseExpress is free-of-charge for personal use and the program is determining commercial by the phrase contents. Unfortunately, this detection mechanism was far too sensitive and we improved it in the latest version. It would be great if you would give PhraseExpress a second chance. Our apologies for the trouble you may have experienced. -- PhraseExpress chooses the formatting as currently set in the target application. If you set the font to another font of your choice in Outlook, PhraseExpress would use that setting. Alternatively, you can store the text formatting along with the phrase if you set the corresponding option when saving the text snippet in PhraseExpress. More information: http://manual.phraseexpress.com#create The PhraseExpress Team

  Has some glitches  

• Interface: 3
• Features: 3
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 3
• Overall:

At first I thought this was the best thing since pizza, but then I started noticing that it sometimes did not paste the text and I would have to do it all over again. Also, it nags you to buy the full version if you use it a lot.

  Response by software author  

Thank you for sharing your experience with PhraseExpress. PhraseExpress is free-of-charge for personal use and the program is determining commercial use by the phrase contents. Unfortunately, this detection mechanism was far too sensitive and we improved it in the latest version. It would be great if you would give PhraseExpress a second chance. Our apologies for the trouble you may have experienced. Your PhraseExpress Team

  Easy use  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Meets simply all requirements for easy use.

  Great time saver!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Excellent, easy to use software that becomes indispensable remarkably quickly! Auto completes text in emails, letters, websites etc. Great!

  Very useful  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 4
• Overall:

Very useful software, I'd be lost without it. The only negative point is that version 2 data was not compatible with version 3. Give this a go if you want something basic and functional.