TextExpander used to cost about fifty bucks per platform per major release, charging for updates. Overall, this is the idea, but the app goes a bit further, allowing things like placeholders, pre-defining values, automation and scripting capabilities, collaboration, and so on. pnetcomment" into the reply field and it will give me the template for writing the comment - with (a) the username already inserted into the "(Clipboard)" placeholder, and (b) the cursor already positioned in a way that I can quickly continue typing:įunctuality like this is not available in the built-in text replacement of OSes, but rather need extra software, like TextExpander. It's a snippet for replying to comments on this website. First of all, it's not just for single phrases or abbreviations, but rather allows for creating long-form templates, such as e-mails, longer messages, or even things like articles or blog-posts, if you happen to have a strict formatting on those. Well, TextExpander comes with a lot more customizability and options for this. So far so good, so why do you need another, paid, app for this, if it is already built-in into macOS? When you type "omw" the OS will now replace those words with the suggestion "On my way!". The idea is simple, so simple that it's actually a basic functionality already built-in into macOS and iOS: So, TextExpander is an app around, well text expanding.
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