2/12/2024 0 Comments Typinator vs typeit4meI use text replacement and my iPhone and these are syncing to my Mac via iCloud. That said, aText is our favorite thanks to its comprehensive feature set, great performance, and reasonable price. Strong work, Smile.Strangely, Mac OS X has a wide variety of great text expansion apps and everyone does the job well. $20 a year is reasonable and sustainable for both the customers and the developers. I am so happy about this, because I was not looking forward to moving 600+ snippets to another utility. So, it looks like I’ll be staying on the TE bandwagon. Thanks for bearing with us as we sorted this out. We value our long-term customers, and it’s important for us to demonstrate that in our actions. In our initial rollout, we offered the discount for the first year only, and that was a mistake. We will apply a lifetime discount of 50% off the Life Hacker pricing to customers of any past version of TextExpander. ![]() Today, TextExpander has listened to long time customers, and have adjusted. Photoshop and Microsoft Office are each $10 per month, and I don’t think TextExpander is even close to 50% of the value or complexity of those apps. If, by the end of the “next version of OS X”, the pricing structure doesn’t get more realistic, I’ll move away from TextExpander. I will spend the next few months exporing alternatives, and hoping Smile comes up with a more realistic pricing structure. AND, there is still not an iPad Pro-optimized version of the app five months later. On top of my dwindling use of TextExpander Touch, the iOS app doesn’t seem to background sync, so every time I add a snippet on my Mac, I have to open the iOS app and force a sync. ![]() Most apps that I use that sync snippets with TextExpander Touch have their own snippet libraries ( Drafts, Editorial), and I’m using Copied to keep longer blocks of text at the ready. I keep regular snippets in the stock Keyboard settings, because the TextExpander Touch keyboard is virtually unusable. I find myself rarely using TextExpander on my iOS devices anymore. Without a reasonable option, I will either migrate my snippets to Keyboard Maestro, or check out another expansion utility like TypeIt4Me or Typinator On iOS I’d happily pay $20 a year for a TextExpander subscription without all the collaboration features. I want to keep my snippets in Dropbox and call it a day. I don’t need or want all the collaboration features of the forthcoming service. Smile will keep the lights on “through El Capitain and the next version of OS X” for current users, but after that, who knows what will happen… On the Mac In the same 10 years, I would have spent $600 on TextExpander. Works out to about a buck a month, and that’s certainly worth it. In total, I’ve spent $120 to use TextExpander for 10 years. Then a $20 upgrade to 5.0 last year, which took it back out of the Mac App Store. For the big 4.0 update, I bought the new version in the Mac App Store. I upgraded (paid $35) to 3.0 with OS X 10.6. I must have gotten a deal, because it was only $20. The first version I bought was 1.3 in 2006. I searched my email archive and found my receipts for TextExpander. Current TextExpander users receive a 50% loyalty discount for their first year. TextExpander is US $4.95 per month for individuals on the Life Hacker plan. I’m not sure how I feel about it, but I do know that I will have to seriously consider whether I’m going to switch to the new model. Smile Software posted on their blog that they were changing the pricing model for TextExpander. ![]() On my 8 month old laptop, I’ve expanded snippets over 8500 times, saving 34 hours of typing.
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