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LazyBoard Mate for iPhone

Type your desktop snippets on iPhone with the LazyBoard Mate keyboard.

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LazyBoard Mate is the iPhone companion to LazyBoard for Mac, Windows and Chrome. It is a separate app from the original LazyBoard phrase keyboard. Mate signs in to your LazyBoard account, so you edit the same snippets everywhere.

Set up the keyboard#

Open Mate, sign in or create an account, then open the Setup tab. It walks you through four steps:

  1. Add the keyboard: Settings › LazyBoard Mate › Keyboards, then turn on LazyBoard Mate. Open Settings takes you there.
  2. Allow Full Access: needed so the keyboard can read your synced snippets. Open the keyboard once after turning it on.
  3. Sync your library: your snippets download after you sign in.
  4. Switch keyboards: tap and hold the globe or keyboard key, then choose LazyBoard Mate.
The Mate Setup tab with four steps: add the keyboard, allow Full Access, sync your library, switch keyboards.
The Setup tab ticks each step as you finish it.
The Mate keyboard showing Customer Replies snippets as keys, with a reply inserted in the Preview tab.
Use Try It in Preview to practise before using another app.

Library and search#

The Library tab shows your folders and snippets and whether they are synced. Search to find any snippet across folders. You can add and edit snippets on iPhone too; changes sync to your other devices.

A Customer Replies folder in Mate with four snippets and their shortcuts.
A folder in the Library tab.
Searching for team in Mate shows three results.
Search covers titles and content.

Typing snippets and filling in fields#

In any app, switch to the LazyBoard Mate keyboard, open a folder and tap a snippet. When a snippet has fields, the keyboard asks for each value first, then inserts the finished text.

The Mate keyboard asking for a name with the value Alex typed in.
Fill in a field right in the keyboard…
The inserted reply addressed to Alex.
…and the finished reply is inserted.

Plans on iPhone#

Mate is free to start. Pro is one plan for iPhone, Mac, Windows and Chrome: if you already have Pro on desktop, it’s included. You can also subscribe in the app through the App Store; cancel that subscription in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. See plans and billing.