Best Text Expander apps for MacOS

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TextExpander

Well, the Text Expander is often regarded as a classic text Automator and is arguably one of the best names in this business. Despite its soaring popularity, the Text Expander users were baffled when the makers moved to a subscription service and offered the same at an annual rate of $40. Other cheaper alternatives offered similar experiences at a much lower price. TextExpander lets users insert snippets of text from emails, boilerplate and other content whilst writing. The tool also lets you personalize with custom fields and powerful automation.

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aText

aText is marketed as a text accelerator by its makers. The aText lacks the TextExpanders interface but it does make it up when it comes to other aspects. With aText you can preset a slew of texts and other stuff that you can use as and when you want. Setting it up is effortless and thanks to the labelled fields you can easily manage your workflow. One can also setup aText to store certain phrases which will expand whenever the abbreviation that is related to them is used. Meanwhile, the auto-correction tools will help in keeping the spelling errors at bay.

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Dash for macOS

Dash offers one of the most simplistic ways to start adding your own snippets. Dash 3 offers a set of language documentation at the side and this is something that will help you with rules and references. The tool allows you to create snippets by simply copying the phrase. Alternatively, you can also create custom snippets using keyboard commands. Dash allows users to setup variable placeholders, cursor positioning and data and time.

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Maestro

The Keyboard Maestro is an offering that is more or less designed on the lines of Text Expander. In case you are looking out for a Text Expander alternative, the Keyboard Maestro should ideally pop up first on your list. The Keyboard Maestro focusses on text expanding needs and it does it rather well. All the features including the abbreviations and the actions are customizable on a character level. The snippets can be saved at multiple levels so that none of your previous entries is overwritten. One can also add Text Tokens for macros and this eventually helps in creating calculation tables, dates, and IP addresses.

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Alfred

Earlier on I had heard a lot about Alfred, an award-winning Text expander app for the Mac. I tried it for a couple of days and I must say it does deserve the attention it is getting. Before we begin let me clear this up, the Alfred offers a ton of nontext expander features and yet it manages to deliver on its promise. With the Alfred, Mac users can search and browse applications. The algorithm will learn how you search and fine tune the results accordingly. Alfred offers hotkeys for accessing clipboard history and also allows users to create their own snippets and expand an abbreviation into a full-text snippet.

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