Release notes

Every version of TypeFire, newest first.

TypeFire for Mac is on 5.1.1, released September 15, 2026. 50 versions have shipped so far, covering the text expander, the Clyp clipboard manager, the Notes world, Selection Prompts, Prompt Chains and Markdown Quick Look.

Current version5.1.1
ReleasedSeptember 15, 2026
Versions shipped50
Mac appChrome extension

TypeFire for Mac

The complete version history for the TypeFire Mac app, newest first. TypeFire is a free text expander , clipboard manager and markdown notes app for macOS: it expands abbreviations into full text in any Mac app, keeps everything you copy, searches the text inside your screenshots, and opens the markdown vault you already have. Runs of maintenance versions are grouped so the feature releases stay readable.

TypeFire 5.1.1

Latest
  • Keep the delimiter: the space you typed after an abbreviation is still there after the expansion
  • Punctuation expands too: an abbreviation before a period or a comma no longer waits for a space
  • New snippets adapt to the case you type, so a sentence can start with one
  • With both the Mac app and the Chrome extension installed, a browser field expands once
  • A link button in rich text snippets, and a link form in notes: text, address, done
  • Drag the Spotlight panel out of the way by its logo; click it to open TypeFire
  • /embed and /emoji join the slash menu
  • Case sensitive abbreviations match exactly as labeled
Download TypeFire 5.1.1What is new in TypeFire 5.1

TypeFire 5.1.0

  • Slash commands, tables edited in place, callouts, footnotes and folding in notes
  • Code blocks with syntax highlighting, a language picker and line numbers
  • Search operators on every surface: tag:, in:, is:, type:, before:, after:, as capsules
  • Notes embed other notes and files, hover a link to preview it, and a link to a note that does not exist creates it
  • Clips paste files as files, formatted text keeps its formatting, and documents are searchable by their text
  • A snippet can expand as you type or after a space, on its own
  • Nineteen video tutorials, playing inside the guide, which now opens on a home page
  • Quick capture takes a title, and a pasted picture lands in your vault
  • The Markdown window reloads when another app changes its file
  • The menu bar icon opens the search you choose
  • Every screen in eight languages, and a line height setting for notes
  • Cmd Delete deletes the selected item in every world, and Cmd 0 brings the main window back

TypeFire 5.0.0

  • Weave finds your notes, clips and snippets by meaning, not just the words you typed
  • A new graph view shows how everything you write connects
  • The graph groups related items and colors them by meaning
  • Warm and Cool themes, on top of light and dark
  • {{note:Title}} pulls a note's live text into any snippet
  • Edit tables in place, and copy any code block in one click
  • Date math takes a format, so {{date:+1M:MMMM}} gives next month's name
  • A shortcuts reference, from Help in the bottom bar

TypeFire 4.5.0

  • One search across your snippets, clips and notes, from any app
  • Keep more than one notes vault and switch between them from the sidebar
  • A notes vault can be any folder you already write in, including a git repo
  • Note text size is right in the editor toolbar
  • Every keyboard shortcut in Settings is grouped by where it works

TypeFire 4.4.0

  • A new {{fill}} token: a snippet stops and asks you for the value as it expands
  • Fill-in fields arrive prefilled, and each one is asked for once
  • Add fill fields to any snippet from the Tokens toolbar, under Cursor

TypeFire 4.3.0

  • Import your notes from Apple Notes, with folders kept as collections
  • Import any file or folder: plain text, RTF, Word, HTML
  • Keyboard shortcuts for bold, italic, code, headings and lists
  • Open a note in its own window and both views stay in step
  • Plain text files work as notes, with nothing converted

TypeFire 4.2.0

  • Invite five people to TypeFire and Pro unlocks free, permanently
  • Send invite links from Settings and watch who has joined
  • Tables render as tables in the markdown editor, as you write
  • Code blocks highlight cleanly when you select text inside them

TypeFire 4.1.0

  • Paste from the web into a note and keep its shape: headings, lists, links and tables
  • Copy a note into Medium, Docs or email and the formatting comes with it
  • Open any markdown file from Finder straight into the editor
  • Type [[ to link a note. It closes itself and completes as you type
  • External links show an arrow to set them apart from wikilinks, and open with a click
  • Notes open ready to read, with the cursor out of the way until you click in
  • ⌘N starts a new note while you are in Notes
  • Outline a note with one click, on device

TypeFire 4.0.0

  • Introducing Notes: open the markdown vault you already have
  • No import, no new format. Works with an existing Obsidian vault
  • Your notes over any app with ⌃⌘⇧K, and paste one without leaving it
  • A live editor that formats as you type. Wikilinks, backlinks, tables, checkboxes
  • Quick capture with ⌃⌘⇧N, daily notes with ⌃⌘⇧D, AI on any note
  • Notes is free, in full
  • iCloud sync now has a separate switch for snippets, clips and notes
  • Snippet and clip sync are free. Notes sync and version history are Pro
  • Never capture from: name any app and Clyp will skip it, or just its images
  • Screenshots you save as a file can appear in Clips, searchable by the words inside them

TypeFire 3.0.5

  • A Pro license now covers three Macs, and Settings shows which ones so you can free a slot yourself.

TypeFire 3.0.4

  • Make everything bigger: Settings → Appearance → Interface size
  • Select multiple clips and delete them in one go
  • Chains follow their snippets when you rename or move them.
  • Deleting a snippet asks for confirmation.

TypeFire 3.0.3

  • Sign-in works on managed and corporate networks.

TypeFire 3.0.2

  • If your Mac's policy blocks in-app updates, TypeFire offers a direct download instead.
3.0.1Maintenance and stability release
3.0.1

TypeFire 3.0.0

  • Introducing Clyp: everything you copy, kept and searchable
  • Search inside screenshots, on device
  • Quick Paste anywhere with ⌃⌘⇧V
  • Selection Prompts: rewrite text in place, in any app
  • Prompt Chains: one trigger, several steps
  • Markdown Quick Look in Finder
  • iCloud sync is now two-way
  • 7-day Pro trial, no card
2.1.0Maintenance and stability release
2.1.0

TypeFire 2.0.0

  • Instant expansion mode (Settings → Expansion) for those fast typists
  • Extra backspace mode (Settings → Expansion) fixes first-word-of-sentence expansion on web editors like Google Docs
  • aText (CSV) importer
  • Duplicate a snippet in one click.
  • Rich text expands cleanly in TextEdit and Notes.
  • Select All in the Markdown viewer copies the body without the chrome.

TypeFire 1.9.0

  • New Description field on snippets: capture what, why and when to use
  • Browser extension sync (extension coming soon): export your library or import from it
  • Hide Dock Icon now temporarily restores the dock icon while a Markdown editor is open
  • Right-click menu on snippets stays single. Opening one closes the others, and clicking away dismisses
  • Help refreshed with Ollama setup, AI token Cookbook, and three free paths to AI

TypeFire 1.8.1

  • Custom AI provider: bring your own endpoint (Ollama, LM Studio, Groq, OpenRouter and others)

TypeFire 1.8.0

  • Custom AI provider: bring your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint
  • Works with local models (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM) and hosted gateways (Groq, OpenRouter, Together, etc.)
  • API key is optional, so leave it blank for local servers that do not need one
  • Hide Dock stays hidden when you open a Markdown file.

TypeFire 1.7.0

  • Eight languages, detected on first launch.
  • EN · FR · ES · PT-BR · DE · IT · NL · RU
  • Switch in Settings → Appearance
  • Date tokens localize too

TypeFire 1.6.0

  • Apple Intelligence: free, on-device AI with no API key.
  • Auto-detected on Apple Silicon + macOS 26
  • Icon-led side menu, grouped sections
  • AI tab shows your active provider at a glance
  • A sparkle marks snippets that use AI.
  • A clipboard icon marks snippets that use your clipboard.
  • Expansion is steadier in Google Docs and Obsidian.
  • New abbreviations are live the moment you save them.

TypeFire 1.5.2

  • New System theme: follows your macOS Appearance live
  • Reopening TypeFire returns you to the window you already had.
1.5.1Maintenance and stability release
1.5.1

TypeFire 1.5.0

  • New AI tokens: rewrite, summarize, translate, fix grammar and more, in any text field. Bring your own API key from Claude, OpenAI or Gemini (Gemini has a free tier).
  • Abbreviations work on every keyboard layout, including characters typed with the Option key.

TypeFire 1.4.3

  • Help now opens in a separate window so you can read it while working
  • iCloud sync now clears deleted collections and snippets on every Mac.

TypeFire 1.4.2

  • Import template packs (.zip) from the Template Library
  • Browse 270+ templates and 2,500+ snippets at https://typefire.app/templates

TypeFire 1.3.0

  • Run TypeFire without a Dock icon.
  • Abbreviations can use special characters.
1.2.3Maintenance and stability release
1.2.3

TypeFire 1.2.2

  • TypeFire no longer asks for Input Monitoring. macOS Accessibility permission is the only one it needs.

TypeFire 1.2.1

  • TextExpander import covers every format they export.

TypeFire 1.2.0

  • Bring your whole library over from TextExpander.
1.0.1 to 1.1.4Maintenance and stability releases
1.1.41.1.31.1.21.1.11.1.01.0.91.0.81.0.71.0.61.0.51.0.41.0.31.0.21.0.1

TypeFire for Chrome

The TypeFire Chrome extension is free in full, with no paid tier and nothing to buy. It expands your abbreviations on any website, from Gmail to Notion to Linear, and shares one snippet library with the Mac app. Chrome updates it automatically, so this list moves more slowly than the Mac one.

Extension 0.2.1

  • First public release in the Chrome Web Store.
  • Abbreviation expansion on any website, including Gmail, Notion and Linear.
  • A Spotlight-style snippet search you can open from anywhere in the browser.
  • Dynamic tokens, so a snippet can carry today's date or your clipboard.
  • Snippets sync with the Mac app through your account.

Keep reading

Clipboard manager for Mac

What Clyp does

Selection Prompts and Chains

The AI features added in 3.0

Markdown Quick Look

Preview .md files in Finder

Pricing

Free forever, $18 once for Pro

Questions about TypeFire versions and updates

How updating works, what each version costs, and where the Chrome extension fits.

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The latest version of TypeFire for Mac is 5.1.1, released on September 15, 2026.

TypeFire is a free text expander, clipboard manager and markdown notes app for macOS, and every version is listed on this page newest first.

TypeFire updates itself. Open the app, click the TypeFire icon in your menu bar, and choose Check for Updates; the new version installs in about a minute and your snippets, collections and clips are untouched.

If your Mac is managed by an employer and its policy blocks an app from replacing itself, download the current version from typefire.app instead and drag it to Applications over the old copy.

No. Every TypeFire update is free, including major versions.

The text expander, the Clyp clipboard manager with your 10 most recent clips, screenshot OCR search, the Notes world with its live markdown editor and AI on a note, Markdown Quick Look and snippet iCloud sync all cost nothing. TypeFire Pro is a one-time $18 purchase that adds unlimited clips, Selection Prompts, Prompt Chains, notes sync and note version history, and every future Pro feature is included in that same payment with no renewal.

Frequently. TypeFire has shipped 50 versions of the Mac app, mixing feature releases such as 4.0, which added the Notes world with a live markdown editor on the vault you already have, and 3.0 before it, which introduced the Clyp clipboard manager, Selection Prompts and Prompt Chains, with smaller maintenance releases in between.

This page lists every one of them.

Older builds are not offered for download. An old version misses later fixes and compatibility work, and it will not match the current sign-in and license system, so installing one causes more problems than it solves.

The current version is always the supported one, and updating never removes snippets or clips you already have.

Yes. The Chrome extension and the macOS app are separate products on separate release schedules.

Chrome updates the extension automatically in the background, so there is nothing to install. The extension is free in full with no paid tier, and it expands your abbreviations on any website.

TypeFire 4.0 added Notes, a third world alongside snippets and clips.

You point it at a folder of markdown you already have, including an existing Obsidian vault, and it reads and edits those files in place with no import and no proprietary format. It brings a live markdown editor that formats as you type while the file stays plain markdown, wikilinks and backlinks across the vault, quick capture and daily notes on their own hotkeys, task lists, highlight and markdown tables, and AI actions on a note. ⌘⌃3 puts the whole vault behind a global hotkey in any application.

The release also added iCloud sync with a separate switch for snippets, clips and notes, note version history, a per-app capture blocklist for the clipboard manager, and screenshots saved as files appearing in Clips searchable by the words inside them. Notes itself is free; notes sync and note version history are Pro.

TypeFire 3.0 was the largest release so far. It introduced Clyp, a clipboard manager that keeps everything you copy and searches the text inside screenshots on device; Selection Prompts, which rewrite highlighted text in place in any Mac app; Prompt Chains, which run several prompts in sequence from one trigger; Markdown Quick Look in Finder; and two-way iCloud sync for snippets.

Get the current version.

TypeFire 5.1.1 is free to download and free to keep using. The 7 day Pro trial starts on install, with no card.

Download free for MacAdd to ChromeSee what $18 adds7 day Pro trial, no card required.

Free text expander, clipboard manager and markdown notes. $18 once for unlimited clips, notes sync and AI prompts.

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