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aText vs Typinator

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When comparing aText vs Typinator, the Slant community recommends Typinator for most people. In the question“What are the best text expansion apps for macOS?” Typinator is ranked 3rd while aText is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Typinator is:

Does almost everything you would need in a text expansion app.

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What are the best text expansion apps for macOS?

Pros

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No Update

Pro
A snippet can be expanded to plain or styled text and include pictures

Pro
Has built-in snippets for common typos

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Cheaper than competition

$4.99, cheaper than textExpander ($35)

Pro
Compatible with TextExpander snippets

TextExpander snippets can be imported into aText

Pro
Works with VMs

Pro
Imports from most alternative text expansion apps

aText can import data from TextExpander, TypeIt4Me, SpellCatcherX, Automaton and CSV file.

Pro
Has common HTML & JS snippets built-in

Pro
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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Extensive feature-set

Does almost everything you would need in a text expansion app.

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It's incredibly stable

Typinator very, very rarely crashes.

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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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Cons

Con
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.

Con
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.