The Spotlight

A command palette for Chrome that types for you.

Press one shortcut on any page and TypeFire's Spotlight opens over it: one search box over your snippets, your clips and your notes, with search operators in every box. Pick a result and Enter puts it where you were typing: a snippet expands, a clip pastes, a note's text goes in. Free.

One shortcut, any page

Pick the key that suits you in Chrome, and it opens over any page.

Three worlds, one box

All, Snippets, Clips and Notes tabs, and each tab can have its own shortcut.

Enter does the work

The result lands in the field you were typing in. No copy, no tab switch.

What it reaches

Snippets, notes and clips, without leaving the page.

The palette is the front door to the whole app. Type three letters of a snippet and it expands where your cursor was. Copy a link on one tab and paste it from Clips on another. Keep a note called Standup in your vault and put its text into the call's chat in two keystrokes.

  • Clips

    The last twenty things you copied on web pages, plus the Mac's synced clips if you connect the folder.

  • Notes

    Markdown files in a folder you own, an Obsidian vault included.

  • The same palette on the Mac

    System-wide, over every native app, with the same library.

TypeFire open in its own tab, the library the Spotlight searches
What it costs

Eighteen dollars. Once.

TypeFire Pro is a single payment that unlocks unlimited clips, Selection Prompts, Prompt Chains, notes sync, note version history and saving from AI apps through MCP. There is no subscription and no per-seat pricing.

TypeFire$18 once

Free tier, then one payment

ClipBook$9.99

No free tier at all

Clibo$14.99

One time

Supaste$29

No free tier

CopyMagic$39.99

One time

Paste$3.99/mo

Or $29.99 a year, or $99.99 lifetime

TextExpander$60/yr

Five snippets free, then a subscription

Free at its core, in Chrome and on the Mac. Pro is one $18 purchase for both, up to three Macs and three browsers, and adds Selection Prompts, Prompt Chains, note version history and the clipboard extras.

Questions

What it does, what it costs, where your data goes.

Still not answered?

A search box that opens over any page on a shortcut and acts on what you pick.

TypeFire's Spotlight searches your snippets, notes and clips, and Enter puts the result where you were typing: a snippet expands, a clip pastes, a note's text goes in.

Chrome suggests Ctrl+Shift+T on a Mac and Ctrl+Shift+E on Windows, Linux and ChromeOS.

If another extension already has it, or you want something else, set your own on Chrome's shortcuts page (chrome://extensions/shortcuts). Each tab (Snippets, Clips, Notes) can have a shortcut of its own.

Yes. Snippet titles, contents and tags, the text of every clip, and the body of every note, with operators like tag:, in:, type:, before: and after:, quoted phrases and a minus to exclude.

Yes. The Spotlight, snippets, tokens, notes in full and the browser's twenty clips are free.

Pro is one $18 purchase for the Mac app and the extension together.

A launcher opens apps and files. TypeFire's palette is about text: it finds something you wrote or copied and puts it into the page you are on, so you never leave the field you were typing in.

In their words

Loved by people who type all day.

Unprompted reactions from users, in their own words.

Exactly what macOS has been needing: blazing fast, beautifully designed, and it respects your privacy without forcing a subscription.
Physician
I use TypeFire every single day, all day long. I love it.
Works at Apple
The way you've handled the AI integrations is very elegant. A great implementation.
Mac user
TypeFire is the absolute replacement for TextExpander.
Works at Apple
I love your app. Love it. The only one that does what I want it to do.
Mac user
I'm loving the date math. Amazing, love it.
ICU doctor
It instantly imported my 502 snippets. Flawless import.
Moved over from TextExpander
Incredibly lightweight. It has quickly become a go-to tool in my daily workflow.
Physician
Love the app, and your development pace rocks.
Longtime user
This app is AWESOME! And I definitely want to buy the Pro version.
Free user
Fantastic. Thank you for the very fast fix.
EU keyboard user
This app has so much potential. I'm really grateful that I found it.
Mac user

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