Typexp lives in your menu bar and expands short abbreviations into full text — instantly, in any app.
$4.99 · One-time purchase · No subscription
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later
Always there
One click to see your recent snippets, toggle expansion, or open settings.
Features
A focused, lightweight tool that stays out of your way until you need it.
Type your trigger and press Space or Return. Typexp replaces it in milliseconds — emails, replies, code snippets, anything you type repeatedly.
Use {{variable}} placeholders in your snippets. A sleek panel pops up asking you to fill in the blanks before inserting.
Enable iCloud sync and your snippets appear on every Mac you own — automatically, with no manual export or import.
Fully App Store sandboxed. Your snippets never leave your Mac unless you turn on iCloud. No analytics, no tracking.
Weekly backups to Application Support keep a rolling history of your snippets. Restore any version at any time.
Beautiful macOS 26 Tahoe glass aesthetics throughout, with graceful fallbacks for macOS Sonoma and Sequoia.
Select any text, right-click, and choose Create Typexp Snippet from the Services menu. Opens straight to a new snippet with the text already filled in.
Click the menu bar icon to see your 5 most recently used snippets. Click any to copy it instantly — or fill in variables if the snippet needs them.
Save snippets in any language — Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, emoji, or mixed scripts. Typexp stores and expands exactly what you type, no configuration needed.
Backup & Sync
Enable iCloud Drive sync and your snippets appear on every Mac you own. Automatic weekly backups keep a rolling history so you can always recover.
How it works
Four steps and you're expanding text everywhere on your Mac.
Download from the App Store and grant Accessibility permission in System Settings. Typexp will guide you through it.
Click the menu bar icon, open Settings, and add a snippet. A short trigger like sigwork for your email sign-off, or rfc for a React component stub.
In any app, type your trigger and press Space or Return. Watch it expand instantly into the full text you defined.
Wrap words in {{curly braces}} to turn them into fill-in fields. Perfect for templates, emails, and code.
Get Typexp
Available now on the Mac App Store.
$4.99 · One-time purchase · No subscription
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Sandboxed