Tired of typing the same sentences over and over?
Discover the incredible power of a full-blown text expander.
Smarter typing
No more copy and pasting, create templates once and let Espanso do the rest for you.
Customer support replies, sales pitches, medical reports, you name it. Espanso got you covered.
Every sentence, one search away
Don’t remember a shortcut? No worries.
Just press ALT+Space and Espanso’s search bar will open, letting you search for the perfect snippet.
Dates, Emojis 🚀, and more...
Don’t wrap your head around dates. Espanso makes it easy to use them, both past and future ones.
Bring emojis 🤠 in all your favorite apps, one shortcut away.
Endless extensibility
Extend Espanso’s capabilities with packages, or create your owns and share them with the community on the Espanso Hub.
Need to insert mathematical notation? Or perhaps german accents? We got a package for them.
We even got the shrug ¯_(?)_/¯
Shell and Script support
For advanced use-cases, you can extend Espanso’s snippets with shell commands or custom scripts.
No more copy-pasting from the terminal, inject the output into applications directly.
Form support
Use forms to handle complex workflows, creating templates that can be reused with ease.
You can even forward form values into custom scripts, opening up endless possibilities.
Comments and Reviews
Fast and reliable, easy to configure, and with text-based configuration files that you can easily share between computers and keep in source control.
Not user-friendly at all. No interface; you have to access codes and scripts. I'll keep searching for a PC replacement to my beloved Typinator, which I use on my Mac...
There are GUI shells for espanso. Also CLI is a much more efficient interface for text expansion.
My favourite text expander.
Can substitute dynamically for dates, etc.
Also acts as a script trigger.
Linux standard install is CLI and lightweight. GUI available for techno-grannies.
.yml
based cofiguration, extremely easy to learn. No coding experience required.It's very simple, easy to use, and you gotta love that it's free and open source. Excellent time saver!
Great text expander, including a hub of commonly-used replacements you can pick-and-choose from to install, like emoji, math symbols, and accented characters. Saves a ton of time with repeated phrases, and enables near-native emoji use instead of requiring you to search for and copy/paste th emoji.
I had never used something called yaml before, but it was very concise and easy to handle, even for a beginner like me.
This is very helpful.