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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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Jinja2
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Performance
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Powerful
While similar to Django templates, Jinja2 is broadly more powerful
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Filters
Filter data with Python functions
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Configurable syntax
Jinja2 syntax can be configured to better fit with other markup languages such as LaTeX.
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PhraseExpress
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Easy to use
Very clear and thoughtful user interface.
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No Linux version
Some people might want it.
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Flexible shortcut system
Offers many options for autotext.
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No subscription, perpetual license
Unlike other text expanders, PhraseExpress is a one time purchase.
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Versions for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android
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Phrase menu
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Document generator
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Portable option
Can run from a USB device.
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Works with Mac and Windows and iPhone
There are versions for all platforms, that can synchronize snippets.
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Sophisticated macro language
It has many macro functions. Macros can be combined and nested.
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Supports RTF formatting and Word documents
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Does not force to use a cloud service
It can run standalone without the need to connect to the Internet.
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Fill-In forms with may options
You cannot only add simple text input but also radio buttons, check boxes, etc.
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Includes Outlook addon to automate email replies
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Clipboard Manager with cool extra features
If email addresses or URL are part of the clipboard contents, PE offers you to send an email to that address or to open the web site.
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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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Mustache.js
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Clean syntax
Mustache provides you with a clean and easy to understand syntax. Having a syntax that is readable is always a huge plus, since this means easier maintenance and code readability in the future.
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Basic tasks are difficult
Mustache js's attempts at making some things simple makes them so easy that they're almost difficult. That is the case with some basic tasks like figuring out how to apply css to shade odd/even rows on your template based content.
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Available in lots of languages
Available in a wide variety of languages including Ruby, JavaScript, Python, C++, Scala, Go, Julia, Swift and more. See the full list here.
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Bested by Handlebars in many ways
Handlebars being an extension of Mustache bests it in both speed and power. It adds additional features to Mustache which make writing templates easier and faster. Benchmarks have also shown that Precompiled Handlebars renders in about half the time of Mustache and the rewritten Handlebars (current version) is 5 to 7 times faster than Mustache.
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Lightweight
Mustache is easy to deliver. If you need more features down the road, you can switch to handlebars, which is a superset of Mustache.
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Logic-less
By design logic-less templates force you to separate concerns thus helping you avoid future problems with refactoring. It also allow templates to be used with multiple programming languages without changes.
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Server side support
Mustache.js has multi-language server side support, which essentially means you can use mustache based templates on languages other than javascript. (like if your server-side was built on Java you could still use Mustache.js)
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Popular
This would mean that you'll have a large community to help you out if you run into any problems.
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Can be compiled
Mustache templates can be compiled to JS files, so that they can be directly loaded.
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Django
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Can feel bloated for small projects
Django's sheer scale and functionality can feel clunky and bloated for small applications. It has too many bells and whistles which can get in the way when developing a small scale application.
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Developing a simple prototype can be very fast 
Django's philosophy of batteries included means that experienced developers won't have to plan too much ahead on what kind of application infrastructure they need and instead just start developing web applications quickly.
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The documentation does not cover real-world scenarios
It is a larger documentation indeed, however is not deep and covers non real problems or even don't show any examples. You'll be better with Google or Stackoverflow
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ORM support out of the box
Django supports Object-Relational Mapping. With models defined as Python classes which are actually subclasses of Django's django.db.models.Model. Each attribute of the model is then represented as a database field. Queries are lazily executed and Django gives developers an automatically-generated database-access API.
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Routing requires some knowledge of regular expressions
Given a GET request for /topics/426/viewpoints/1/sections/create, how does Django decide which bit of Python code is invoked to handle it? It compares the request path to your giant pile of regular expressions. And then if there's some other regular expression starts matching /top and all your requests for /topics/ start going there, good luck figuring out why. You won't be informed of any conflict until you notice you seem to be getting the wrong pages back. The structure of URL paths is almost universally hierarchal. There is no call to have anything as ridiculously flexible (and notoriously hard-to-read) as regular expressions to organize request routing.
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Top notch documentation and help from community 
The official Django documentation is probably some of the best around. Well written, thorough and they explain every little detail of the framework. Django is also a very popular tool, with an extensive community and a lot of experienced developers that have been using it for years. This means that there are a lot of guides and tutorials out there for new and experienced developers alike.
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Template errors fail silently by default 
If you make a typo in a template variable, or change a view so that variable is no longer passed to the template, you won't get an error message pointing out that something has gone wrong. That reference will just be treated as if it is an empty string instead. There is a way to configure this, but since so many templates have been written assuming this behavior, nobody ever enables template errors because it would break so much of the existing support tools (e.g. the built-in admin interface).
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Highly customizable 
Django is in itself a highly customizable web framework. The database, template framework and ORM can all be swapped out.
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Has an admin panel out of the box
Django comes with a highly customizable admin panel and authentication out of the box. This makes the development and production of a simple CMS extremely easy.
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Mature software with many plugins developed over the years 
Django was first released in 2005, it has had a lot of time to mature and become better with each release. It also has by far the largest community out of all python frameworks who have continuously over the years built and maintained many powerful plugins.
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Clear and defined MVC organization 
Django follows some pretty well established MVC patterns. With everything in place and where requests follow a clear path through urlresolvers, middleware, view and context processors.
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Simple database management
Just a few lines of code can instruct Django to create all the tables and fields required in your database automatically. Schemas are managed with "migrations", that are also created automatically, and can be rolled out from your development box and implemented on production systems with just a single command. This performs any database changes required, from table creation, indexes, renaming fields, and pre-populating initial data. Each migration builds on the previous migrations, so you can trace the evolution of your data and even recreate the layout of your database at any point in the lifecycle of your application.
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Multi Language Support:
Excellent
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Python
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Default ORM:
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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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aText
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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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No Update
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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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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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