TextExpander lets you quickly create snippets of HTML coding and other complex text.Both TextExpander and TypeIt4Me enable you to create expansions that pause for user input. You may be able to use Dropbox or another service to sync snippet collections from the others, but doing so isn’t as easy as it is in TextExpander. Typinator’s text-entry box can’t expand, which makes it harder to add snippets.If you use more than one Mac, TextExpander alone has a preference that lets you sync snippets, using MobileMe or Dropbox. TextExpander and Spell Catcher allow you to create a new expansion based on the current selection and TextExpander and TypeIt4Me allow you to do so with items on the clipboard. TextExpander and TypeIt4Me also let you create new shortcuts from within any application, using global hotkeys. Both feature a freely expandable expansions box, which makes it easy to add longer text clippings. TypeIt4Me and TextExpander have the cleanest setup interfaces. All but Spell Catcher support snippets containing rich text and images, as well as plain text.īut before any of these programs will expand anything for you, you have to define some abbreviations and their full-form expansions.
Even a more complex (and somewhat unrealistic) test case-pasting 1500 words of text, and inserting a couple of date and time references within it-worked well in all of them. But because they can do much more than that, I consider them a separate category.) The basicsĪll four programs do what they say they can do with basic, plain-text expansions.
Among many other things, they can also insert text. (You might also include keyboard macro utilities, such as
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