Keyboard Maestro

Keyboard Maestro enables you to create or record custom macro shortcuts that you can activate at any time.

• Keyboard Maestro is not merely a "text expander". It is a tool for increasing your efficiency in most operations on a Mac from system preferences and utilities to applications. It is so powerful that everything else pales by comparison. If you decide to try it you will only scratch the surface of its capabilities for the first year. Guest • Feb 2018 Disagree   Agree

Commercial Mac

TextExpander

TextExpander lets you instantly insert snippets of text from a repository of emails, boilerplate and other content, as you type – using a quick search or abbreviation.

• For text macros, TextExpander is the best. It's simple to use, powerful, and free for non-commercial use. Sadly, Quickeys is no longer supported, and the dog-in-the-manger owners of the software refuse to let it into the public domain. Guest • Jul 2017 Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows iPhone iPad

Hammerspoon

This is a tool for powerful automation of OS X. At its core, Hammerspoon is just a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine.

Free Open Source Mac

aText

aText accelerates your typing by replacing abbreviations with frequently used phrases you define. E.g. make an abbreviation “myname” to insert your name “First Middle...

• QuicKeys does many more things than typing text. Guest • Oct 2016 Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Parallels Desktop

Typinator

What is Typinator? Have you ever experienced the tedium and frustration of having to repeatedly type your name, e-mail address, home page url, or other words or...

Commercial Mac

TypeIt4Me

Available since 1989, TypeIt4Me is the original text expander for Mac OS. Any time you enter text in your Mac by typing it at the keyboard, TypeIt4Me can help you do it...

Commercial Mac

canSnippet

canSnippet is a snippet management tool for macOS. It allows developers to easily save snippets and integrate them in any running application.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

iCanHazShortcut

Simple shortcut manager for OS X 10.8 or higher.

Free Open Source Mac

yType

yType is a productivity tool to amplify your typing ability. Type a few characters (shortcut) to paste a much larger block of text (expansion) like your name, a url...

Commercial Mac

Tactor

Tactor tries to guess the best action for the current text selection. For example consider text containing http://xyz.com – an URL link. Or...

Free Mac

iKey

iKey is an automation utility, a program that creates shortcuts to accomplish repetitive tasks. In essence, an iKey shortcut is a little program in its own right, but...

Commercial Mac

xType

xType allows you to quickly insert frequently used phrases in your applications. Tired of writing the same text over and over again? Anytime you type text into an...

• Discontinued The developer discontinued this app because of Apple Sandboxing policy. It's now technically impossible for developers to develop new versions of this kind of product for the Mac App Store. xType is still available via Softpedia.

Commercial Mac