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A text expander for your Mac’s menu bar

Write it once.
Type it in four keys.

Type ;addr in any app and Snipora turns it into your address. Same for the reply you send every day, your signature, today’s date. Then it notices what you keep retyping, and offers to save you the trouble.

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Free for 15 snippets · lifetime $29.99 for the first 50 buyers (then $39.99)

  • Native SwiftUI
  • No account
  • Snippets stay on your Mac
  • Pastes, so emoji and accents survive
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Friday’s delivery
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Three keys, then the whole thing

No new habits. You keep typing; the abbreviation turns into the text before you’ve looked up.

01
;addr

Type the abbreviation

Anywhere you can type: Mail, Slack, Notion, Xcode, Terminal, a web form. Starting with ; means it never fires inside real words.

02
14 Rue des Lilas
75011 Paris, France

It becomes the text

Snipora pastes the snippet instead of typing it, so it lands at once, formatting and emoji intact. Your clipboard is put back afterwards.

03
esc ;addr

Didn’t mean it? Esc

Press Esc right after and the abbreviation comes back, exactly as you typed it.

It notices what you keep typing

Type the same phrase three times and Snipora offers to make it a snippet, with an abbreviation already picked. It all happens in memory, on your Mac.

  • Counts the last few words you type, in memory only; nothing is written to disk
  • Never sent anywhere, and gone the moment you quit
  • Single words never count, so a password typed in a terminal can’t come back
  • Password fields are hidden from it by macOS
  • One switch turns it off, and “What we see” shows what it holds
Mon 9:41
Typing in Slack

    When it can’t expand, it tells you why

    Password fields and apps like 1Password switch on Secure Input, and macOS hides every keystroke from every app. Instead of going quiet, Snipora names the app, offers to quit it, and keeps the paste picker working.

    Mon 9:41

    Ready

    128 expansions today.

    Click into the password field

    Why expanders stop, and how to fix it →

    You decide when it expands

    Instantly, when you finish the word, or only when you press Tab. Try each one on omw.

    Expands the moment the abbreviation is complete.

    Fill in the blanks, pick from a list

    A snippet can ask before it expands. A name, a choice from a list, the date two weeks from today: you fill in the small form, it writes the rest.

    Snippet ;reply
    Hi {field:Name},

You’re on the {choice:Plan=Basic|Pro|Team} plan. Your trial ends {date+14d}.

{cursor}
    The form it opens
    tab next↩ Insert
    What lands in your message

    Hi Camille, You’re on the Pro plan. Your trial ends Nov 4, 2026.

    Tokens it understands

    {date+3d}
    A date, three days from now (d, w, m, y)
    {date:next friday}
    A date in words: tomorrow, next friday, in 2 weeks
    {snippet:;sig}
    Another snippet's text, inside this one
    {time}
    The time right now
    {clipboard:2}
    What you copied before the last copy
    {cursor}
    Where the caret lands afterwards
    {key:tab}
    Presses Tab, Return, arrows or ⌘ shortcuts
    {field:Name}
    A blank to fill in
    {choice:Plan=Basic|Pro}
    A list to pick from

    One abbreviation, the right words for each place

    A snippet can expand everywhere, only in the apps and websites you choose, or everywhere except them. Switch tabs and type ;sig.

    Websites need the free Safari or Chrome extension, which tells Snipora the site’s name and nothing else.

    Your old snippets, here in one click

    On first launch Snipora looks for other expanders on your Mac and offers to bring their snippets over. Anything that can’t carry over is listed in a report. Nothing is dropped silently.

    Bring them over from

    Your snippets

      And everything else a good notebook needs

      The details that make it feel like it was always part of your Mac.

      ⌃⌥space

      Search and paste

      Forgot an abbreviation? Search every snippet by name or text from any app and press Return.

      ⌃⌥S

      Snippet from selection

      Select text anywhere, press the shortcut, give it an abbreviation. Saved.

      ;name

      Ready on day one

      Allow Contacts and your name, email, phone and address become snippets in seconds.

      ;a

      Match popup

      While you type an abbreviation, a small list of matching snippets appears under the caret.

      **md**

      Markdown and images

      Write Markdown, get bold, italic and links in the destination. Or paste an image.

      teh

      Typo fixes

      Built-in sets fix common typos and add accents (café, naïve). Switch each set on or off.

      /\d+k/

      Regex triggers

      Type ;5k and get 5000. $1 in the snippet is whatever the pattern matched.

      js

      JavaScript snippets

      Insert what a script returns, in a sandbox with no network or file access.

      sh

      Shell and AppleScript

      Off until you turn them on. Imported scripts always ask first.

      ☁

      iCloud Drive sync

      Turn it on and every Mac uses the same snippets. No server of ours in between.

      team

      Shared folders

      Point it at a Dropbox or iCloud shared folder; your team’s packs update as they change.

      6mo

      Stale-snippet cleanup

      “You haven’t used these 12 in 6 months.” Archive them in one click, bring any back later.

      And from Terminal

      The snippets command lists, expands and adds snippets from any shell or script, using the same file as the app. Shortcuts and Spotlight get Expand, Add and List Snippets actions too.

      zsh

      ❯ snippets list

      ;addr	14 Rue des Lilas
;sig	Best,
;ty	Thank you so much, this really helps.
;meet	Does Thursday at 10 work? I’ll send a link.

      ❯ snippets expand ';sig' | pbcopy

      ❯ snippets add ';ooo' 'I’m out until Monday, back on the 27th.'

      Added ;ooo.

      ❯

      See the time it gives back

      Snipora counts real expansions only, then works out the typing you skipped at 40 words a minute. Move the slider to your day.

      25
      80 characters

      35h 56m

      saved a year with Snipora

      5,750 expansions · 431,250 characters I didn’t type

      ; Snipora

      How it compares

      As each developer describes it, October 2026. Check their sites before you buy.

      SniporaTextExpanderTypinatoraTextEspanso
      PriceFree · $2.99/mo · $39.99 once$60 a year$59.99 once$29.99 onceFree
      Suggestions from what you typeYes, on-deviceYes, with the subscriptionNoNoNo
      Fill-in forms and pop-upsYesYesYesYesYes, in YAML
      Where your snippets liveYour Mac or iCloud DriveTextExpander’s cloudYour Mac or a synced folderYour Mac or a synced folderFiles you sync
      Account neededNoYesNoNoNo

      The full comparison →

      Ask AIChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

      A real Mac app, built to be trusted

      Requires
      macOS 14 Sonoma or later
      Runs on
      Apple silicon and Intel
      Built with
      Native SwiftUI, not Electron
      Permissions
      Accessibility, to see and replace what you type
      Privacy
      Snippets and suggestions stay on your Mac. No account
      Your data
      Open JSON you can export any time; optional iCloud Drive sync

      Keys worth knowing

      Search your snippets and paste one
      ⌃⌥Space
      Save the selected text as a snippet
      ⌃⌥S
      Undo it: the abbreviation comes back
      esc
      Move between matching snippets
      ↑↓
      Expand the highlighted one (↩ works too)
      tab
      Close the popup
      esc
      Next field
      tab
      Pick an option in a choice list
      ↑↓
      Insert
      ↩
      Cancel
      esc

      Start free. Pay once, or monthly.

      The free plan is the full app for up to 15 snippets, suggestions included. No account on any plan.

      Free

      $0forever

      • Up to 15 snippets
      • Suggestions, tokens, forms and import
      • Every app, every website
      Coming soon for Mac

      Pro

      $2.99a month

      or $24.99 a year · save 30%

      • Unlimited snippets on 1 Mac
      • iCloud sync and shared folders
      • If it lapses, nothing is deleted
      On sale at launch

      Lifetime

      Launch price · 25% off

      $29.99$39.99once

      For the first 50 buyers, then $39.99

      • Everything in Pro, on 1 Mac
      • Every future update, major versions too
      • Yours to keep
      On sale at launch

      On more than one Mac? One lifetime key covers them all, yours or your team’s.

      3 Macs$69.99$59.99$20.00 a Mac
      5 Macs$89.99$79.99$16.00 a Mac

      14-day full refund. Payments by Dodo Payments.

      Students and teachers: half pricePost about it, get 50% back

      Questions, answered

      You type a short abbreviation like `;addr` and Snipora replaces it with the full text: your address, a reply you send every day, a signature, today’s date. It works in any Mac app, from Mail and Slack to Xcode and Terminal.

      A text expander has to see what you type to notice an abbreviation, and post keystrokes to replace it. macOS puts both behind one switch, Accessibility. Snipora asks once, shows exactly where the switch is, and never sends what you type anywhere. Read the full guide

      When a password field or an app like 1Password turns on Secure Input, macOS hides every keystroke from every app, so no expander can work. Instead of failing silently, Snipora pauses, names the app holding it and offers to quit it. The ⌃⌥Space picker still pastes snippets in the meantime. Read the full guide

      Yes. On first launch Snipora looks for snippets from macOS Text Replacements, Espanso, Alfred, aText, Keyboard Maestro and Typinator and offers to bring them over in one click. TextExpander, Raycast and CSV exports come in through Import…. Abbreviations get a ; in front, so omw becomes ;omw; one that already starts with a symbol keeps it. Anything that can’t carry over is listed in a report, never dropped silently. Read the full guide

      To spot text you keep retyping, Snipora counts the last few words you type, in memory only. Nothing is saved to disk or sent anywhere, single words never count, and it’s gone when you quit. One switch turns it off, and “What we see” shows how many phrases it holds.

      Free for up to 15 snippets, suggestions included. For unlimited snippets, pick Pro ($2.99/month, or $24.99/year to save 30%) or pay once for a lifetime licence that includes every future update: $29.99 for the first 50 buyers (25% off), then $39.99 for one Mac, or $59.99 for 3 Macs and $79.99 for 5. No account either way.

      See all 21 questions →

      Ask AIChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

      Stop typing the same thing twice.

      Free for 15 snippets. Lifetime $29.99 for the first 50 buyers.

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      Coming soon for Mac · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon & Intel