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Canned Replies

by Tinacious Design

v3.0.0 Updated Dec 18, 2022 2.87MiB
CWS
10K
Users
★ 3.97
60 reviews
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#305 of 5.4K
⚠️Not updated in over 2 years

Description

Canned Replies is a productivity tool that makes it quicker and easier to send the messages you send often. Use Canned Replies to create a set of commonly-used text snippets, and easily access these from within Gmail, or from the context menu and browser popup. FEATURES Gmail-optimized experience: Use Canned Replies from within your Gmail compose window. Canned Replies adds a button into the Gmail compose toolbar so you can quickly access your messages in context to the email you’re sending. Simply click on the desired message and it’ll be inserted into the email at your cursor. Context Menu: Insert a text snippet via the context menu. Just right click (or control click) on any editable field and click the desired Canned Reply to insert it. Browser bar popup: Canned Replies offers a popup window from your browser bar for all other use cases. Use the popup to copy the snippet onto your clipboard. This is useful if a website does not support native context menus, or if you’d like to paste your messages into an external application. VERSIONS 3.0.0 – Upgrades to Chrome manifest V3 to align with Chrome's updated security practices. Also fixes the bug where the button stopped working in Gmail. 2.0.0 – A revamped Canned Replies popup that includes the ability to search for your messages. Also includes bug fixes and accessibility improvements.
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Reviews (18 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2023-12-11
Anthony Jackson

All my saved replies have vanished over the weekend and now I can't save any new ones.

★☆☆☆☆2023-11-25
Rajendra Dubey

not working from last 3-4 days in gmail

★☆☆☆☆2023-11-25
Split Accounts

I this is excellent extension, but from last few days, the direct option from gmail is not showing

★★☆☆☆2021-07-26
Myles Athas

Was at least a 4 at first, dropped to a 2 after a few days usage Initially 4 as this doesn't work in Salesforce, my use case. As you can't put them in alphabetical order or group them it was also inconvenient, but the app itself seemed pretty good. Dropped to 2 when I'd spent 5 minutes making yet another entry, to lose it because of an "Error Saving" because Google Chrome's storage has a max storage size, and I'd apparently hit this. And when I clicked past the warning the content I'd written was gone. Perhaps consider making it clear there is storage limits, maybe a % left, and absolutely not lose the entered content when reaching an error stage.

★★☆☆☆2021-02-03
Soren Madsen

Logo covers the `formatting options` button of Gmail menu. If there were a feature to only have it in the text menu (right click) it would be OK. In addition, extension can't handle formatting, font colors etc

★★☆☆☆2019-11-01
Ricky's Rants

Would be a 5 if I could alphabetize the saved responses.

★★☆☆☆2019-02-08
Will

The right click context doesn't work - regardless of which site (gmail, this comment box I'm typing in, wordpress, etc.) I'm running Linux (Debian 9)

★★☆☆☆2017-09-21
Brian “Tvhawk” Hochstein

Integrating a setup like the tinymce wordpress plugin is a much needed feature for text formatting, adding the capability of links, embedding images, etc Since this extension doesn't have all that i'm moving on to the next one.

★★☆☆☆2016-11-26
Holy Land Man

Very limited number of canned answers. Had to delete it.

★★★☆☆2020-07-06
Mathieu Nouquet

Broke with the July 6th update.

★★★☆☆2020-02-25
Breanna Walters

Works great aside from the fact that I cannot change the order of the canned replies.

★★★☆☆2019-05-27
Karen Franta

I'm very happy to find a solution to "canned replies" for calendar. However, I need more flexibility with font sizes, bold feature, highlighting feature and especially with adding links to the canned responses. If you could make this app do all these things, the it would make it a 10+ for me.

★★★☆☆2019-02-08
Susan Murdoch

I like this for my purpose the only draw back for what I do is the huge number of text inserts and the inability to reorder them in the UI. They go in in the order you put them in and the one you need may be at the bottom. It doesn't order alphabetically or even by usage. If there were a way to organize them I would get more use out of this tool. Looking for another solution.

★★★☆☆2018-07-10
Oleksandr Azhevskyi

Great extension! But please fix ordering issue while exporting/importing. If you do that you will got reversed list of canned replies. Also it would be nice to do not autohide the button in Gmail composing view after reply insert.

★★★☆☆2018-04-15
Craig x

Good concept, doesn't quite work as I need it to (right-click menu not pasting) but workable using the click on icon in Chrome nav bar. I really hope this extension gets further developed. It will do me for now until I can find something better.

★★★☆☆2018-02-13
Jorge Antonetti

Recent update is bugged. Widget menu will not scroll.

★★★☆☆2018-02-02
Sathish Kumar

right click copy from context menu doesnt work. Hope new version will be able to right click and auto post the canned replies without using copy paste

★★★☆☆2016-12-16

Once I click on a canned response then I have to paste it with CTRL+V... it'd be better if I just clicked on the canned response and it filled in automatically where my cursor is.

Permissions (4)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension clipboardWrite Can write to your clipboard contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 3.0.0
Updated Dec 18, 2022
Size 2.87MiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026