What Is the Best Free Text Expander for Mac? Setup in 2 Minutes
The best free text expander for Mac, set up from nothing in two minutes: sign in with an emailed code, pick the folders your snippets and notes live in, watch a snippet expand, add starter snippets, turn on Apple Intelligence and grant the one permission expansion needs. A free TextExpander alternative with no subscription.
Text Expander Tutorial: Create a Snippet, Autofill Any Form
How to create a text expansion snippet in TypeFire, a free TextExpander alternative: the title, the text, a collection and a tag, an abbreviation or a keyboard shortcut. Then the same snippet filling a bank form with the rest of the library.
Text Expander, Clipboard Manager and Markdown Notes in One App
A tour of TypeFire, the free Mac app that is a text expander, a clipboard manager and a markdown notes app in one (think TextExpander, Paste and Obsidian, without three subscriptions): the tabs, the sidebar, search, the editor, every Tokens menu, the bottom bar, Help and Settings.
Search Snippets, Clipboard History and Notes From Any App
One free shortcut over any app opens a search across your snippets, clipboard history and notes, ranked together with previews, the way Raycast or Alfred do for apps. The All window and its tabs, Enter versus Command Enter, a screenshot dropped into an email, quick capture with a title, the daily note.
Text Expander Fill-In Fields, Date Math and Clipboard Variables
Fill-in fields, date math and clipboard variables in a free text expander: write an invoice snippet with all three, then type it into an email and watch the form ask, the date resolve, and the copied link land. The templates TextExpander charges for, free.
Can a Text Expander Use Apple Intelligence? Free AI Setup
Yes, a text expander can run on Apple Intelligence, free and on device. Setting up AI in TypeFire: Apple Intelligence in one click, a free Gemini key with a connection test, or Ollama on your own Mac through the Custom provider.
Rewrite Text With AI in Any App, One Shortcut (Apple Intelligence)
Rewrite the text you have selected with AI in any Mac app, from one shortcut, with Apple Intelligence or ChatGPT behind it: write a Selection Prompt with {{selection}} where your highlighted text goes, then watch a blunt chat message come back professional, in place.
AI Prompt Chains: Summarize, Extract Tasks, Translate in One Key
Chain several AI prompts into one shortcut, free: build a four step chain from Selection Prompts you already have, then turn messy call notes into a summary, action items, a checklist and a Japanese translation in one keystroke, in any app.
Clipboard Manager Mac: Clipboard History That Searches Screenshots
A free clipboard manager for Mac with clipboard history that reads your screenshots: turning Clips on, how long history is kept, which apps are never captured from, then a screenshot and a copied code landing by themselves and a chart found by the words inside it. A Paste and Maccy alternative.
Clipboard History Mac: Pin, Tag, Search and Reuse Anything You Copied
Getting the most out of clipboard history on Mac: grid or list, quick lists by kind, the apps clips came from, Group, Sort and Filter, and everything you can do to one clip: pin, name, tag, remind, save as snippet, change its case, extract text, delete. Free.
Markdown Notes App That Opens Your Obsidian Vault (Obsidian Alternative)
A free markdown notes app for Mac that opens your Obsidian vault as it is, no import: a second vault added from a git repo, a table, bullets and tasks edited in place, the slash menu, wikilinks with a picker and hover cards, the outline, version history, an on-device summary, and quick capture from any app.
Markdown Viewer Mac: How to Open a .md File in Finder and Edit It
How to open a .md file on Mac and see it rendered: make TypeFire the default markdown viewer and editor, preview any markdown file with a press of space in Finder, open it with a double click, edit it, and keep it as a note. Free, and it reads Obsidian files as they are.
TextExpander Alternative: Move Your Snippets and Apple Notes Over
Switching from TextExpander, aText or Apple Notes to TypeFire, the free alternative: import notes from a file, a folder or Apple Notes with a preview that sorts them into new, changed and already imported, and import snippets from a TextExpander or aText export with their abbreviations kept.
Search Operators for Notes and Clipboard: tag:, in:, after:, app:
Search operators for your notes, snippets and clipboard: tag, in, after, app and more, each becoming a capsule with its values listed under it, in the app with Command F and in the free Spotlight window over any app. The search Obsidian users expect, across three kinds of thing.
Obsidian Graph View Alternative With Local AI Search (Weave)
An Obsidian graph view alternative with local AI search, free: a search that fails on words and succeeds on meaning, Weave switched on with a one-time download, the index built on your Mac, the note found by what it means, and the graph of everything connected, with the connections Weave found.
Free Obsidian Sync Alternative: Snippets, Clipboard and Notes via iCloud
A free alternative to Obsidian Sync for the notes, plus your snippets and clipboard history: keeping every Mac the same through your own iCloud Drive, the three switches, what is free and what is Pro, how two Macs agree, images in clips, secrets that never sync.
Text Expander With No Subscription: Free Trial, Pro, Lifetime License
A text expander with no subscription: TypeFire is free, and Pro is one payment for life. The seven day trial, what stays free when it ends, what Pro unlocks, buying once for up to three Macs, restoring on a new Mac, and getting Pro free by inviting five friends. Compare that with TextExpander's yearly plan.
TypeFire Settings Tab by Tab: Text Expansion, Clipboard, Notes
Every Settings tab in TypeFire, the free text expander, clipboard manager and notes app, card by card: General, Appearance, Shortcuts, AI, iCloud, Weave, Snippets, Clips, Notes, Plan, Invite friends, Advanced and Feedback.
Text Expander Not Working on Mac? The 6 Fixes
Text expander not working on Mac? Nothing expands, expands in one app but not another, web editors eating characters, an AI snippet saying error, a shortcut that will not record, and how to reach us: where each fix lives in TypeFire, the free TextExpander alternative.
Video tutorials
See what TypeFire does, then do it yourself
Type three letters and the whole email lands. Get back the thing you copied an hour ago. Rewrite a message with AI without leaving the app you are in. Each video shows one of these in the app, short enough to watch and then try.