TypeIt4Me for Mac
Replaces typed abbreviations with longer text and / or images.
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TypeIt4Me overview
TypeIt4Me is a text expander that replaces your personal shorthand abbreviations with the longer snippets of content they represent, as you type. It works in almost all applications, not just one.
Any time you enter text in your Mac by typing it at the keyboard, TypeIt4Me can help you do it faster and more accurately. First you define a number of abbreviations and the full texts or picture(s) that they represent, then you watch the Mac expand them on the fly as you continue typing.
The purchase price is a one-time fee, not a recurring subscription. Discounted upgrade licenses are also available.
What’s new in version 7.0
TypeIt4Me 7.0 is sandboxed, for exclusive distribution on the Mac App Store.
- A new UI that adopts modern macOS design language, making it easier to compose, edit, browse, move and copy snippets. Set management is also much improved.
- A streamlined new expansion engine completely rewritten in Swift and optimised to run on Apple Silicon.
- (Optional) Non-clipboard expansion of plain text snippets up to 2,000 characters in length (up from a previous maximum of 30 in version 6.)
- Variable input fields. In addition to autocue placeholders, it’s now possible to create more sophisticated fill-in-the-blanks template snippets in which you can pick options from pulldown menus.
- Global and set-level exception rules (i.e. Only expand in / Don’t expand in special behaviours).
- A dedicated snippet-level settings menu for more granular control of how individual snippets should behave.
- Pre-defined snippet sets bundled with the app (including common accented words, emoji, HTML & CSS, symbols, properly capitalised brand names etc).
- (Optional) Automated back-ups that save local copies of your snippet sets at regular intervals you specify and every time you quit the app.
- You can set a hot key combo to open the point-and-click menu. Undo deletion of snippets.
- A floating snippet search-and-insert window you can bring up by pressing a hot key combo.
- Simultaneous activation of multiple sets (previous Mac App Store versions were limited to one active set of snippets at a time)
Further to the above, the following features that were previously only available in the old direct sale TypeIt4Me (i.e. version 6) – are making their debut on the Mac App Store:
TypeIt4Me for Mac
$9.99
In English
Version 7.0
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Apr 21 2025
Version: 7.0
TypeIt4Me is the original text expander, way before autotype and all the other imitations. I've been using it since the early 90's. The developer is very responsive, the price very reasonable and the app itself superb.
Sep 16 2021
Version: 6.3.4
Used this app for years now and am generally quite satisfied with it. Sometimes it seems your prefs are lost somewhere and you have to reactivate your collection from database, by just clicking on it, no problem if you know that you have to do that. But customer service told me quickly how to deal with that. A recent issue is that the program is not starting any more when I switch on my computer, it's presence in my menu list is only accidentally. So, when busy and trying to use your favorite abbreviation, nothing happens. You have to manually start the program and then it works. Cumbersome. Has been like that for a couple of months now and the recent update doesn't change that. It only happens to Typeit4Me, none of the many other start up apps are affected by this.
Aug 20 2021
Version: 6.3.4
Hello, I am a hooman and I am not a fake review, my dog can testify.
I just bought aText...seriously, it's the price of 2 coffees here in Australia. It has saved me countless hours of monotonous text entry. It does the same tihing as Typinator, Texpander, TextExpander and Rocket Typist. I have Rocket Typist included with my Setapp subscription and I could not cope with how unreliable it is.
I have noticed a few bugs here and there with aText, so wish the updates would be more frequent, but otherwise a solid text replacement that is very lightweight and won't dent your wallet.
Feb 18 2021
Version: 6.3.2
So many fake reviews, many listed as "Most helpful," this place has become useless.
Jul 15 2020
Version: 6.2.2
This is the BEST productive software EVER! I've use it every day and it saves me so much time! Best of all, Riccardo and his father give terrific customer support if you have any questions! No one gives better support! You'll LOVE it!
