Description
2010 Macworld Utility of the Year. Type faster on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using short abbreviations that expand into long snippets.
With TextExpander touch, you create a library of abbreviation shortcuts for snippets of text that you use frequently, such as addresses, URLs, and standard replies. Tap that abbreviation, and it automatically expands to the full snippet. (You can even insert today's date automatically with the default abbreviation "ddate"!) New: Sync your snippets with Dropbox!
You can use your TextExpander touch snippets directly in over 100 apps that support it, including Twittelator, TwitBird Pro, Elements, Simplenote, WriteRoom, Circus Ponies NoteBook, DEVONthink To Go, BusyToDo, Things, and Zendesk. See www.smilesoftware.com/applist for a complete list.
Given the current feature set of the iOS, TextExpander touch cannot work in the background (as it does in Mac OS X), expanding text snippets while you work in another app, unless that app supports TextExpander touch.
Compose new email messages in TextExpander touch, using your snippet library of boilerplate paragraphs, email addresses, URLs and signatures. Automatically insert the message into an email in Mail or copy it for use in other apps.
If you use TextExpander on the Mac, you can also share the snippet groups with iOS devices over your local network.
"If you do a lot of writing and communication on your iPhone, TextExpander is practically required for efficiency." - iPhone AppStorm
Features:
- Compose notes quickly and easily that contain frequently-used text, addresses, phone numbers, email signatures, URLs, etc.
- Supported in over 100 apps, including Twittelator, TwitBird Pro, Elements, Simplenote, WriteRoom, Circus Ponies Notebook, DEVONthink To Go, BusyToDo, Things, and Zendesk.
- Automatically insert your notes into Mail and SMS messages, or copy-and-paste into other apps on your iOS device.
- Automatically insert today's date with the short abbreviation ddate
- Use Dropbox to sync snippets
- Add TextExpander snippets from your Mac via your local network.
- Save composed notes in an archive for reuse.
- Use multiple snippet groups.
- Add Predefined Groups such as accented words, symbols, HTML, and CSS.
What's New in Version 1.2.2
- Adds direct tweeting as an action on iOS 5
Customer Reviews
Works good, but only works in a few apps
After trying TextExpander on the Mac, I bought this without reading the description as the desktop version works so well. Unfortunately, there are only a hundred or so apps that are compatible. I only use one of the apps that are compatible. Mail and messages is where I would use this a lot but these are not not supported. A workaround is to copy and paste but that doesn't take a five dollar app. Sorry I bought it now.
Why you should buy TextExpander despite the iOS 5 shortcuts
The people who say "But didn't Apple include shortcuts in iOS 5?" must have very simple lives. The Apple shortcut interface, well, I'm not supposed to use profanity, but insert one here that means "is really bad."
OTOH, with TextExpander you can:
- sort your snippets into folders
- edit them on your desktop via Dropbox
- sync them to other iOS devices via Dropbox
It's true that TE "only" works with a hundred or so apps, but that list includes most of my go-to apps. If you have an app that you'd like to support TextExpander, then just take 30 seconds to write the developers and ask them to support TextExpander.
Integration is great; App is buggy and unusable
Having my snippets in Simplenote and DayOne and other places is amazing and awesome. But the app itself is a crashing, buggy disaster. Can't get more than one or two taps into the interface 90% of the time before it freezes or crashes outright.
Fix it, and you have an easy 5-star app!
- $4.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: Oct 07, 2011
- Version: 1.2.2
- Size: 2.2 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: SmileOnMyMac, LLC
- © 2010 SmileOnMyMac LLC dba Smile
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
