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.
What's new in version 7.2.2
- When you specify a language that a dynamic date should expand in, a selection tick correctly shows in the menu next to the selected date language to reflect your choice. The tick went AWOL in a previous update, but it’s back now.
- Deleting snippets by swiping left immediately updates the snippet count in the sidebar and the list header. Before it was only updating after switching away to another set and back.
- After deleting a snippet, selection now moves correctly to the next snippet in the list.
- There was a bug that would cause the TypeIt4Me menu to instantly close again the very first time it was opened by clicking the icon in the menu bar. It would strike when “Hide window on launch” was selected in the app’s settings. That bug is a hazy memory now.
- Template snippets that contain < and > characters (e.g.
) expand correctly with no missing chunks of content before the prompts / variable input fields.
- Some snippets combining both pictures and dynamic dates would not include the picture when expanded in the Pages app. That’s fixed.
- A bug crept into an earlier build that would cause the search window to expand rich snippets as plain text with part of the content missing. We sent that bug away to live on a farm in the countryside and now the search-and-insert window correctly expands rich snippets again.
- When the app has not been granted accessibility permission, selecting a rich formatted snippet from the menu to paste manually correctly places the full RTF content on the clipboard. In previous builds, the snippet was erroneously being converted to plain text first.
- Rich formatted template snippets containing both variable input fields (prompts) and embedded images should expand correctly without losing the images.
- Any command-key combo (e.g. a ⌘V paste action) correctly resets the keyboard buffer again. This means you can have (for example) a snippet with an abbreviation that’s just two apostrophes and it won’t trigger accidentally if what you want to do is just type an apostrophe, paste something then type a closing apostrophe.
- A few minor issues affecting the rich formatting popover menu have been resolved. It now behaves itself and won’t misapply certain attributes when there’s lots of mixed formatting in a snippet. Also, the labels on the B, I and U segmented controls properly turn white when selected, so they can clearly be seen against the selection highlight background colour.
- In a previous build a bug snuck in that would fail to expand animated GIFs inline in Mail messages on Macs running Tahoe. They would become TIFF attachments instead. This has been corrected, but you may need to recreate or update any existing snippets you have that contain GIFs in order for them to work in Mail on Tahoe.
- Remapping ⌘V to something else with a third party app is no longer a barrier to expanding typed abbreviations or pasting them from the point-and-click menu. Please contact us if you’ve had trouble and need help with this.
TypeIt4Me for Mac
$19.99
In English
Version 7.2.2
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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!
