Typinator

Typinator turbo-charges your typing productivity.

Type a little. Typinator does the rest.
We've all faced projects that require repetitive typing tasks. With Typinator, you can store commonly used text and images in quick keywords and abbreviations. From email templates to code snippets to website URLs, there's no easier way to recreate repetitive text at a moment's notice.

Workflow-friendly features

• Uncomplicated configuration. Quickly and easily create abbreviations and assign replacement text and pictures.
• Simplified migration. If you already use TextExpander, TypeIt4Me, or a similar app, you can migrate to the highly praised Typinator using simple drag-and-drop importation methods.
• Conversion options. Instantly convert currency values, measurement units and more.
• Extensive app compatibility. Your text expansions function in all of your OS X apps with lightning-fast precision.

Version 6.10:

• New form window with focus frames and improved scrolling
• New built-in /Case function for selecting different text fragments depending on an input value
• Logical values are now supported in calculations; 0 counts as false, all other values are treated as true
• Constants for logical values in calculations: true, false, yes, no
• New if function in calculations: if(x>=0; sqrt(x); 0)
• New min and max functions with multiple parameters are now available in calculations, for example, max(12; 42; 9) yields the value 42
• The round function now accepts an optional parameter for the number of digits after the decimal point: for example, round(pi; 3) returns 3.142
• When the selection or caret is inside a {...} marker, the whole marker is now highlighted
• Double-clicking a curly brace in an expansion now selects the whole {...} marker that starts or ends with the brace character
• New item in the Help section of Typinator's action menu opens the "How to..." page on our web server
• Keyboard shortcuts for cursor position and clipboard markers when editing expansions
• New {zh} marker for the numeric time zone offset in hours
• Time calculations with days, hours, minutes and seconds now accept fractional parts, such as {{dayDelta=+1.5}}
• "Non-expanding line break" in the {...} pop-up creates a line break that is not included in the expansion result
• Typing Option-Return in the expansion field inserts a "non-expanding line break"
• Fixes an installation problem during an update when the previous version had been moved to the trash
• Custom keyboard shortcuts with the enter key are now supported in Typinator's preferences
• When a new version is available, the message in Preferences window now also informs about the current version
• Typinator detects input in LaunchBar's search field and ignores abbreviations typed in this situation (with LaunchBar 6.6.3 or later)
• Typinator launches faster when a different version was installed previously
• More tolerant rules for handling unary plus and minus operators in expressions
• Diagnostics report contains more specific information for certain support cases
• Improved speed of expansions with embedded keyboard actions
• Improved handling of very fast keystroke sequences in certain corner cases
• More flexible timeout handling for shell scripts
• Added log messages for troubleshooting certain installation issues
• Changed the "Clipboard" item in the {...} pop-up to "Text from Clipboard" to make the meaning clearer
• Improved conversion of older preferences formats
• Internal streamlining, mostly in preparation for the introduction of new features
• Faster clipboard-based expansions in certain corner cases
• Fixes a problem in calculations, where the values of calculated variables were not properly updated in certain circumstances
• Fixes a problem that could cause Typinator to hang when deleting a newly created set
• Works around some compatibility issues with LibreOffice
• Fixes incorrect translation of TextExpander's %d and %e markers into Typinator's {DD} and {D}
• Fixes a problem that resulted in an incorrect selection after importing certain set files
• Solves a problem where formatted expansions and pictures could not be saved after importing from compressed formats
• Works around various expansion problems with Fade In
• Works around an expansion issue that resulted in extra spaces in MS Word when the "smart cut and paste" option was enabled
• Works around a rare situation in which stray keyboard input appeared in an input form
• Fixes an error in the internal analysis of an expansion context
• Fixes a misleading date in the registration message for temporary beta licenses
• In Safari Technology Preview, Typinator now uses the same application-specific adjustments as in Safari
• Fixes a problem where a wrong abbreviation was selected as the result of a command click in Quick Search
• Works around an expansion problem in Canvas Draw
• Fixes a problem in Microsoft OneNote, where the abbreviation was not removed in some situations
• Works around a problem in Nisus Writer that caused part of the abbreviation to remain after an expansion
• Fixes an inconsistency in the handling of line breaks in output produced by shell scripts
• Another workaround for a compatibility problem with IntelliJ
• Works around an expansion problem in Canopy
• Fixes a problem with mission keystroke information in the diagnostics report

I've switched to Typinator! I'm a long-time (~4 years) user of TextExpander, and I've been unhappy with TextExpander even before their insane pricing change. TextExpander is super slow at executing scripts (about 5-10 seconds on a non-SSD, about 2-5 seconds on an SSD), which was one of the main new features in their new version. Speaking of which, their major versions barely add any features and cost an arm and a leg. Their recent switch to a ridiculous subscription-based pricing model made me look at alternatives. I am so happy I discovered Typinator instead.

The winner of them all is Typinator by a large margin.
[*] Fair pricing.
[*] Everything it does is *super fast* and it includes extremely advanced power-user features. Everything I always wished TextExpander would have is here in Typinator!
[*] Full Dropbox (and others) syncing of your snippets and shell scripts, simply by moving the "Sets" folder location to a cloud-synced location like your Dropbox folder. Any changes to the files are instantly detected by all Typinator apps on all computers, even when it's running at the time. This is a far cry above the unreliable sync that TextExpander had.
[*] Shell scripts are literally shell scripts. They're stored in a special "Scripts" folder, end in ".sh", and are marked executable. This means you can use your full, syntax-highlighting text editors to write long, advanced scripts that have full access to the web, your filesystem, etc, so that they can do very advanced things.
[*] Shell scripts execute *instantly*. This is thanks to Typinator just needing to execute the script and capture the output (unlike TextExpander which runs osascript and uses temp files, and aType which must write the script to a file before executing it). I made a PHP shell script that outputs the current date, and Typinator expanded it in about 100ms every time, even on a non-SSD. My jaw dropped. This finally gives me access to super fast scripting in my snippets, allowing me to do things like a web scraper that pulls down prices and outputs the latest up-to-date price.
[*] You are able to use regular expressions as your snippet type, which means that you could use something like "(ee|rr|nn)name" as your "abbreviation" and a single snippet will react to eename, rrname and nnname, and your snippet itself can be script-based and use the "ee", "rr" or "nn" portions to determine what to output based on how you typed that abbreviation. This is great for snippets where you want tiny variations in output. It's also great for things like currency formatting (make a snippet that reacts to a sequence of numbers followed by some special characters, and make it grab those numbers and format them and output them).
[*] Shell scripts can receive arguments, i.e. "{Scripts/Test.sh what}" to send "what" to the script. That makes it easy to re-use the same script across multiple snippets and give it an argument that tells the script to slightly adjust the output based on what snippet is executing it. Heck, you can even execute the same script with different arguments via a single snippet by using Typinator's regular-expression text snippets, to capture custom input every time, like "{Scripts/Test.sh $1}" to send it the 1st captured regular expression argument (that you typed) from a regex-based abbreviation.
[*] Typinator includes built-in functions like regex replacements inside of your snippets which lets you do many advanced things without ever needing to create a shell script at all. For instance, I made a Regular Expression snippet with "([0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?)xx" as the pattern, and set it to Plain Text and wrote the following as the text replacement just to test it: "Please pay me \${/Regex /[0-9]/1//$1/}!". The result is that if I type "293.22xx", it expands to "Please pay me $111.11!". That was just a test of the built-in regex replacement function, which in this case replaces all digits with the number "1". There are many built-in functions and I am very impressed.
[*] Fill-in forms, dropdown menus, variables etc are fully supported and work better than TextExpander ever did. The popup window is faster, clearer and only asks for the field values (instead of showing all the distracting boilerplate text too).
[*] The "place text cursor at location" feature is instant (unlike TextExpander, which crawls one character at a time). Typinator just jumps directly from expansion to placing the cursor at the correct location. It's a godsend since I use lots of snippets with text cursor placement and it's wonderful to be able to keep typing instantly after expansion, instead of waiting for the cursor to move (like with TextExpander and aType).
[*] The Typinator language is very easy; all functions are within {} brackets, and you learn them quickly. For instance, {"xxdate"} would include the contents of the "xxdate" snippet, etc. It's therefore super easy to include snippets in each other, etc. Even script-based and input-form based snippet inclusions work perfectly.
[*] The company has an unbeatable track record of excellent OS support and stability year after year for all of their applications, and friendly customer support.

If you need extremely fast shell scripting, cursor movement, powerful built-in functions (like regex text replacement), and *mindblowing regex pattern matching as your abbreviation triggers*, buy Typinator.

I will never again give a single cent to TextExpander. They've shown their greed for *years* and now yet again with their latest money-hungry scheme, and they're not even the best on the market. Typinator is light years ahead in power and speed.

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