Forward text messages to email automatically: every text, or only the senders and keywords you choose. Set up once in Shortcuts.
autoforward forwards text messages to email automatically. Every incoming SMS or iMessage on your iPhone, or only the ones from a sender or with a keyword you choose, goes straight to any email address. Whether you’re managing two-factor authentication codes, delivery updates or appointment reminders, text message forwarding to email means you never miss one, and you can read your texts on a PC or Mac.
Key Features:
• SMS to Email Forwarding: Receive your text messages directly in your email inbox, perfect for archiving or managing SMS alongside emails.
• Every Text or Just Some: Forward everything, or filter by sender or keyword right in the automation.
• Sender in Subject: Show who texted you in the email subject, so your mail app groups every message from the same sender into one conversation.
• Reliable Delivery: Messages are processed securely and are never stored longer than necessary for forwarding.
• Your Own Mail Server: Optionally send through your own SMTP server (Gmail, iCloud or any mail server), so messages go directly through your infrastructure. Credentials stay encrypted on your iPhone.
• History Without Contents: See recipient, time and status of every forward. The message itself is never logged.
• Free to Use: autoforward has a free tier with daily and monthly limits.
Common Uses:
• Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): Reliably forward OTP and login codes by email, to yourself or a coworker.
• Delivery & Appointment Updates: Forward delivery notifications and appointment reminders.
• Texts on Your Computer: Read and search your SMS in your inbox on any device.
How It Works:
autoforward adds a “Forward as email” action to Apple Shortcuts. A Message automation runs it on every incoming text; set it up once, in a couple of minutes, with the guide and video in the app. No account, no jailbreak, nothing to keep open. If you have been looking for an SMS forwarder for iPhone, this is it.
Privacy First:
Your privacy is our priority. Messages are processed securely and are never stored longer than necessary for forwarding. With your own SMTP server, forwarding runs entirely on your iPhone.
Privacy Policy:
https://autoforward.app/en/privacy
Terms of use:
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
This app is free and works well for forwarding SMS to email. Setup was simple, and messages forward automatically without extra steps. It does exactly what I needed without unnecessary features or subscriptions.
Supervisor
JC PGA
I use this app every day and find it very convenient for transferring text requests from my email into our scheduling platform. One improvement I would like to see is the inclusion of the text sender’s information. Currently, the app transfers only the message content, so I cannot tell who sent the original request.
Developer Response
Make sure to update the app to the latest version, as we’ve added this feature. Please note that it requires a change in the Shortcuts app. Our tutorials currently only cover iOS 26, so things might look a little different on iOS 27. We’ll update the tutorials in the coming days as well.
Very nice tool, clean and fast
MeeppNeedStudy
I've been using this app for a while. Works stably and serves every need. The only improvement that I wish is to support stmp from a privacy concern.
Developer Response
That’s actually a great idea! Make sure to update to the latest version of the app. I added a Settings screen where you can define your own SMTP server. This also removes the 5 SMS/min limit. Let me know if you have any issues via the support email.
Purchase options
Allnamesaretaken111
I know everyone wants subscription revenue but I would pay a one time upgrade for increasing the free limits a little bit but I won’t do a subscription as I will never need unlimited etc
Developer Response
One reason we don’t currently offer a lifetime purchase is that iOS and Apple’s Shortcuts system can change over time, so we need to continuously maintain and adapt the app to keep everything working.For people who don’t want to pay the full monthly price, we’ve made the yearly plan significantly cheaper overall. We may consider additional purchase options in the future though, so thanks for the feedback!
• Forwarding schedule: choose the days and hours when messages are forwarded, the same every day or different for each day. Outside them, nothing is sent. Find it in Settings › Schedule.
• History explains itself: tap a skipped message to see why, or one that hit the free limit to upgrade.
• Emails sent through your own mail server keep their line breaks in Outlook, and links in them can be tapped.
Version 0.2.9
The developer, above the fold GmbH, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
