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TypeIt4Me
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Just right
Not too thin, not too bloat. Very approachable.
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Less sophisticated feature set
If you're switching from TextExpander you may miss one or two power features like fill-ins that don't have direct equivalents. There's usually a workaround that achieves roughly the same outcome, though.
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No subscription
TypeIt4Me is relatively inexpensive. There's a $19.99 one-off payment and that's it. No recurring monthly fee after that (though they do charge an optional $8.99 fee to upgrade to a new version every few years).
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Infrequent updates
It's a great app but there tend to be quite long intervals between major new versions.
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Relatively easy to use
Other text expanders do the job but are really difficult to use, with complicated interfaces to learn. By contrast, TypeIt4Me is relatively simple and intuitive. It also has a detailed instruction manual for when you do want to get into the power features.
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Language support
The TypeIt4Me app interface itself is available in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish but the Help / instructions are only available in English. If your English is not strong, this could be frustrating.
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Has been actively developed for decades
The developer has been supporting TypeIt4Me since the 1990s and clearly cares about maintaining the product.
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Good support
First class customer care.
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Related notepad app for iPhone and iPad
The Mac version of TypeIt4Me can sync snippets via iCloud with TypeIt4Me Touch (an iOS note-taking app with built-in TypeIt4Me text expansion support, available as a separate purchase).
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HovText
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Trusted signed executable and open source
HovText has existed for 20 years and has always been open source.
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Remove formatting from text copied
Copying text from the internet or from Office applications most often will include styles and formatting when pasting, but HovText can remove all this formatting, so only the raw unformatted cleartext will be pasted - this is a life-saver :-)
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Keeps the most used clipboard entries at top
Most recent entries copied/pasted are available from a top-down principle.
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Trim whitespaces and empty new-lines on copied text
When marking text with the mouse, it often adds a whitespace at the beginning or the end of the text or there are some empty lines above or below that gets copied too, but HovText has an option to remove whitespaces at beginning and end - very useful.
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Intuitive, fast and modern UI for finding previous copied texts or images
When viewing the list of previous copied clipboards, then it is easy to find the relevant text or image you need.
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Fully user configurable
All hotkeys can be configured and all layout, style and screen display can be tweaked, so there is a chance you can have it setup as you want.
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Portable and no installation needed
Fast, light, no installation process and no registration needed - just "click and use".
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Save clipboards on computer
The clipboards can be saved to local computer, so it can be reused after a computer shutdown.
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Platforms:
Windows 7/8/10/11
Initial Release:
2004-02-24
Newest Release:
2024-02-02
Approximate Size:
2.7MB
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Copy 2 Online
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Free/Trial account
You can use this application during 7-days as a free user.
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Freemium
Free version is limited to : Copy 100 characters at once See last 10 copy history Up to 2 sessions
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Speed
Strong searching ability and fetch data.
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User-Friendly
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Online
Cloud based then access from any devices.
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Search Window by pressing Alt+Space
Really user-friendly.
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Free usage
Free accounts can open multiple session and share the data between devices. For the paid users, there are many ability while managing copy history and opening the much more sessions.
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Promo-Code Section
Nowadays, they have promo-code to have discount. Promo-code is "C2O100".
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CopyQ
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Simple to setup
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impossible to quit/start copyq via script
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Easy to use
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In linux, it sometimes does not react to shortcuts
Also buggy when hiding.
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Free
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Sometimes copies filtered entries in between selection
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Add notes or tags to items
Most effective with stacks that don't automatically delete the oldest members, tags and notes allow you to use CopyQ as a personal database for important information with easy access and retrieval.
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Can't export images in bulk
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Cross-platform and cross-DE
CopyQ supports all major Linux desktop environments (including KDE Plasma, GNOME, Xfce, etc.), Windows and MacOS X 10.9+.
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Slow with many entries
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Can sort and store based on content type
Built-in support for text, HTML, images or any other custom formats, allowing for type-based clip stacks that each have their own custom actions (open images in a photo editor, open URLs in a browser, etc.)
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Slow to place selected content on editor
Takes a while to place the selected text into the editor.
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Browse and filter items in history
Quickly locate that snippet you copied months ago but don't recall precisely what it was.
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Platforms:
Windows 11, MacOS Ventura, Linux Kernel 6.2 or above
Initial release:
2009-10-18
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Alfred
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Can create custom automated workflows
Allows the creation of automated workflows by connecting keywords, hotkeys and actions together without writing code.
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Many features require the $25 powerpack add-on
Features like custom workflows, clipboard history, 1Password integrations and others require the powerpack add-on.
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Full keyboard controls
You can do everything using just the keyboard.
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Built-in calculator
Alfred is able to handle simple mathematical commands and more extensive expressions alike. Pressing Enter copies the result to the clipboard.
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Integrates with 1Password
Alfred allows getting secure and fast access to your 1Password 1Click bookmarks.
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Lightweight and smooth
Alfred is a lightweight application for OS X and runs smoothly, even on older devices.
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Versatile search
Quickly search for files, applications and web services from the same input.
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Productivity booster
Helps speed up your working day one shortcut at a time.
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Clipboard history
Alfred offers a clipboard with an extensive history for quick access to your copied text, images and links.
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Entry of everything
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Allows theming
Alfred allows adjusting colors, fonts, sizes and more to create new themes.
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Offers both a free version and a paid version available
The paid version is more customizable, but the free version is still very powerful.
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Free
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Ditto
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It's reliable, fast and quick
It just works...always. It's fast and quick, which can save you thousands of hours.
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Uninstaller removes nothing
After uninstalling removal of almost every file manually from different directories is still necessary since the actual uninstaller only displays "other files still remain".
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Very configurable
You can set all sorts of things from size of database to size of individual clips, types of objects to copy/paste, which hotkeys to use etc.
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Minimizes after each paste
You have to activate it twice to paste twice.
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Scriptable clips
Clips can be used/changed with scripts during copy or paste.
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Does not support HDPI displays
On high DPI/resolution displays, the UI is very small. Practically unusable.
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RTF bug is still present in latest Beta version
You can turn on the option to draw RTF text in the clip list, but it no longer works in Windows 10 Ditto (64bit), and the latest Beta version available today - which claims to have fixed the bug - still has the same bug. It will no longer draw RTF text as-is in the clip list.
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The UI is very confusing
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Can't use any shortcut you wish
Anything with spacebar, windows key (that the system also uses) is not possible.
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Portable version will remove all clipboard record once it is updated to newer version
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Platforms:
Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11
Initial release:
2003-08-11
Approximate size:
15 MiB
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Typinator
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Extensive feature-set
Does almost everything you would need in a text expansion app.
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No customer service
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It's incredibly stable
Typinator very, very rarely crashes.
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No periodic subscription
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No periodic subscription
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Easy to use
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Publish and Subscribe for snippet sets
You're able to stay in sync with any changes that may happen.
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On sale very often
You can often catch Typinator for $10 or less.
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Windows 10 Clipboard
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Unable to edit clipboard content
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Cloud sync
Sync with your Microsoft account.
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Only available for Windows 10 RS5
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No customization
It's merely a stack of copies, saved and in sync, but that's about it.
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No search function
You need to find clipboard manually.
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ClipAngel
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Versalite and feature rich
At first you don't see it, but then you find more and more features using tooltips everywhere.
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Classical User Interface
User interface seems old.
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Unlimited storage of clips possible
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Bitdefender may see it as malware
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CTRL+ENTER pastes selected or all text as plain text
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Not enough clips on display in window
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Great support
All bugs are being fixed very quick.
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Big memory consumption
It takes up to 80-90MB of RAM.
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Supports comparing clipboards
Can be used to compare different clipboards.
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Favourite clips possible
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Shows image fragments in list
When doing copy-paste with many images, quick visual search in list is very important. ClipAngel shows representative fragment for every image clip in list without rescale. So it is very easy to find proper image.
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HTML native formatting view
HTML clips by default are shown in native formatting.
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Good preview of snippets (incl. images)
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Clip concatenation
You can join any number of clips very quickly.
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FontBase
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It saves you from having to install fonts
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Must open it everytime to activate fonts
FontBase's main pro is its main drawback - not needing to install fonts is great, but opening files using fonts not installed may not show them properly unless FontBase is also opened.
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Works fast with a lot of fonts
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Crashes with many fonts
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Free to use
FontBase is free.
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It doesn't grab fonts when using the package features in Adobe software
You will have to manually grab the font folders from your library. As the fonts aren't actually installed locally, Adobe software can't see the font nor export it with your project.
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Wonderful minimalist interface with good choice of controls
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Virtually non-existent support
Generally get one response and then dead silence.
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Get Google Fonts on your system in a few seconds
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Does not display all fonts, and there is NO support at all
No help/support, no spec, no tech page or forum.
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Syncs font database from Dropbox easily
Fontbase allows you to easily set up watch folders allowing you to sync your font libraries directly from any cloud-based storage provider.
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It doesn't make adding, activating or sorting through fonts any easier
When dragging font and font folders into the library you will still need to search for them and manually activate. The ability to search and sorting fonts is very limited.
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Regular free updates
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Makes Adobe programs run slow and crash
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Affordable upgrade option
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Ask to buy
Search filter is need to buy.
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aText
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Doesn't work in Mojave
The current version, with no issues. In fact, I've never had any issue with it with Mojave, so I assume when Mojave was released, aText was already up to date for it.
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No Update
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Frequent crashes in MacOS Sierra
aText crashes frequently, and the developer is unresponsive. Not clear if app is supported or under current development: last update was in 11/15; last post to aText Facebook page 10/15.
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A snippet can be expanded to plain or styled text and include pictures
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Long time no update
Seems to be abandoned.
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Has built-in snippets for common typos
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Cheaper than competition
$4.99, cheaper than textExpander ($35)
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Compatible with TextExpander snippets
TextExpander snippets can be imported into aText
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Works with VMs
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Imports from most alternative text expansion apps
aText can import data from TextExpander, TypeIt4Me, SpellCatcherX, Automaton and CSV file.
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Has common HTML & JS snippets built-in
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Snippets can include editable fields
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Data can be synced through cloud storage services
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Snippets can include a wide variety of variables
Possible variables include date, time, other snippets, clipboard content, etc.
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