[General Questions and Answers] Cannon_Foddr:
Firstly, if wrong forum - sorry, thought this was best place. Did search but none of the result seemed to fit what I'm looking for

Title basically explains what I'd like.

Does anyone know of an app, as usual - preferably free of ads, free of costs(or very cheap) etc, that can send a preset/programmed message to a preset phone number on a UNrooted phone ?

(Incidentally I'm NOT looking for 'Send Text message at a preset time' so apps like 'Auto SMS Sender' or 'SMS scheduler' are not what I'm looking for)

In case you're wondering why.. I am on a PAYG (Pay As You Go) 'contract'.

(If you do not know what that means,it means there's no bank direct debit, no monthly contract with 'free' minute/data/txt etc involved. I use the phone & occasionally 'charge up/top-up' with £5 or whatever as & when necessary)

On my old phone there was a 'sim toolkit' option that when used allowed options for 'balance' & 'Top-up', but my new phone does not & despite me finding a 'Sim Toolkit' app - the mobile company does not recognize it, meaning the app is useless

The company I'm with does allows various ways to top-up - visit a store, phone up & talk to someone or use a text message to a specific number (once a debit/credit card has be registered), so I was thinking that if there was an app that can be pre-programmed with a text message & that can autosend that message to a preset telephone number - then this could technically be a 'replacement' for the Sim Toolbox app I once had

If you are not sure what I mean - let see if these examples help:-

> If I send a message like 'TOPUP #5#' to phone number '1234' it will top-up by £5 or 'TOPUP #10#' to same number for a £10 topup.

> If I need to know my current balance texting 'BAL' to '1234' will return a txt message showing my current balance in account

> If I need to know if I'm on a special 'Bundle' (eg special 'cheap Roaming cost') - sending 'BUNDLE' to '1234' will do the job

> If I want to change the current bundle I'm on - texting 'BUNDLE #3#' to '1234' would change it from the 'Special cheap roaming bundle' to the special 'High Data/Low Minutes' bundle for whatever remaining days are left in these 30-day bundles the company supplies

So the idea is, I could set up this app with preset titles like 'Topup £5', 'Topup £10', 'Balance', 'Roaming Bundle' etc that once I select one of these titles - it would auto send the required message to the appropriate phone number....

... Tap 'Topup £5' would autosend 'TOPUP #5#' to phone number '1234' or Tap 'Balance' would autosend 'BAL' to number '1234' (wouldn't even mind if it asks 'Are you Sure' before sending the message once tapping 'Yes')

Hopefully you can see what I mean. I've tried looking through the Play store but not knowing what this type of app would be called - I'm finding it difficult to find one

So - Does anyone know if such an App exists ??, If so what's it called ??

Has anyone got recommendations ??

Remember - it MUST be ad-free , cheap (or even free/low cost) & allows me to set up pre-programmed messages to be autosent to pre-programmed telephone number(s) (this is just in case I may need to set up messages like 'Going to be late' to be autosent to a work number, or 'Arrived safely' to a Family member's number).

Many Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions