The Best 20 Shorthand Alternatives

  • TextExpander

    TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows iPhone iPad

  • WordExpander

    WordExpander is a free Phrase Expander that provides quick access to your common phrases WordExpander increases your productivity by inserting frequently used text phrases into any Windows application.

    Free Windows

  • Typinator

    What is Typinator? Have you ever experienced the tedium and frustration of having to repeatedly type your name, e-mail address, home page url, or other words or...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Texter

    Text substitution app Texter saves you countless keystrokes by replacing abbreviations with commonly used phrases you define.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Breevy

    Breevy is a text expander for Windows that helps you type faster and more accurately by allowing you to abbreviate long words and phrases -- saving you time and money.

    Commercial

  • TyperTask

    Increase your efficiency by automating your keyboard with TyperTask! This tool simulates keyboard typing, and can be used to instantly type common phrases. Use it to...

    Free Windows

  • Texpand

    Texpand is a text expansion app that helps you save a lot of time by assigning shortcuts to your frequently used texts. Features include: • Expand text on almost all...

    Freemium Android Android Tablet

  • TypeIt4Me

    Available since 1989, TypeIt4Me is the original text expander for Mac OS. Any time you enter text in your Mac by typing it at the keyboard, TypeIt4Me can help you do it...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Snippet Bin

    How it works: if you are running Snippet Bin and type "//for ", it can turn this into: for ( $i = 1 ; $i <= 10 ; $i++ ) { //stuff } But...

    Commercial Windows

  • CanRemember

    CanRemember is a canned speech manager, which allows you to quickly access stored procedures. This program is designed to add, store, edit and delete text snippets...

    Free Windows

  • Rapidkey

    RapidKey - Autotext and Macros for Windows XP that auto fill web forms. RapidKey provides you with a new Windows functionality. This software autocompletes text phrases...

    Freemium Windows

  • Textspansion

    Access your commonly typed phrases with Android’s first “text expansion” app! Access a database of your commonly typed phrases with Android’s first “text expansion” ap...

    Free Android

  • yType

    yType is a productivity tool to amplify your typing ability. Type a few characters (shortcut) to paste a much larger block of text (expansion) like your name, a url...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Tactor

    Tactor tries to guess the best action for the current text selection. For example consider text containing http://xyz.com – an URL link. Or...

    Free Mac OS X

  • QuicKeys

    QuicKeys is software that makes it easier to use your computer. With QuicKeys you can automate common things you do all the time. And you can automate tedious things you...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Beeftext

    Are you tired of repeatedly typing the same text over and over again? - The custom email signature you only use for your close friends. - The markdown snippet you...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • canSnippet

    canSnippet is a snippet management tool for macOS. It allows developers to easily save snippets and integrate them in any running application.

    Commercial

  • Mywe Fast typer

    Mywe Fast typer is a powerful software solution that aims to improve productivity and helps user work smarter and type faster. Mywe Fast typer can reduce by more than...

    Commercial Windows