Pricing is hard to judge because everyone values software differently. Organization accounts add enterprise-friendly features like organization-controlled snippet sharing, management of team members and snippets, permission management, email sign-up by domain, auto-subscription of users to snippets, and consolidated billing. Individual accounts include snippet syncing across iOS devices and Mac, sharing of groups with your circle, app updates, and email support. There is also a 30-day free trial for all new users. Users who bought TextExpander after Decemwill receive three free months on an individual plan. Existing TextExpander users can take advantage of a 50% discount on the first year of an individual account. Team accounts are billed on a per user basis of $9.95/user per month or the equivalent of $7.96/user per month if billed annually. Individual accounts cost $4.95/month or the equivalent of $3.96/month if billed annually. To use TextExpander going forward, you will need one of two types of accounts: an individual or a team account, which are available directly from Smile, not as in-app purchases. With the new Mac and iOS versions of TextExpander, Smile has introduced a new pricing model. As with organizations, clicking on the share button from a snippet group’s settings opens where you can share a group with another TextExpander user and set their snippet editing permissions. Sharing snippet groups from individual accounts is similar to sharing as an organization, but without the tools and complexity of managing an organization and its members. Only the snippet groups above the divider are shareable. The two types are separated visually in the apps by a divider. As a member, you have two types of snippet groups – your personal snippets, to which your organization has no access, and the organization’s snippet groups, to which you subscribe as a member. The administrator also sets which snippet groups members have access to, and whether members have read-only or read/write permissions to the organization’s snippets. On, an organization’s administrator can invite new members to the organization. Sharing varies a little depending on whether you are using TextExpander as part of an organization, or as an individual. As soon as I logged into on a Mac or iOS device, my snippet library began migrating to the new app.Įditing a snippet in TextExpander’s web interface. In my tests, Smile’s new syncing engine was fast and reliable. Today’s updates replace those syncing services with Smile’s own syncing solution. Prior versions of TextExpander relied on iCloud and Dropbox to sync snippet libraries. serves the dual purpose of syncing your snippets across your Macs and iOS devices, and facilitating snippet group sharing and management among individuals and organizations. is a subscription service from Smile that is required for the new versions of TextExpander to work. The biggest changes to TextExpander on the Mac and iOS are not the apps themselves, but the new service that ties them together. Smile is simultaneously moving TextExpander to a subscription pricing model, a development that I expect will not be popular with some long-time customers. The apps include some interesting updates, but at the center of the updates is a new service,, which provides snippet group syncing, sharing services, and team management. Today, Smile released TextExpander 6 for Mac, TextExpander 4 for iOS, and even an all-new Windows beta. TextExpander has saved customers countless hours of typing by letting them define short abbreviations that it expands into longer snippets of text. However, it’s all very easy to turn off, so if you don’t like it, with a few checkboxes you can turn it into a simple text expansion program.TextExpander from Smile Software is one of those indie apps that feels like it’s been around forever. If you don’t want system-wide autocorrect, or you don’t want it to track everything you type, it’ll probably annoy you more than anything. Still, it’s free, and if the alternative is a $US40 program, most of you are probably willing to do a bit of tinkering for these special situations.įurthermore, the extra built-in features can sometimes get in the way more than they actually help. You can get around this by setting different expansion methods for longer snippets, but it’s workarounds like this that just make it annoying to use. However using the clipboard method means you can’t paste clipboard contents within snippets (even though Breevy seems to handle this just fine). For example, if you have a rather long snippet, you’ll need to use the “clipboard” method of text expansion if you want it to move faster than a snail. Sure, it’s highly configurable, but there are some simple things that it just doesn’t do right.
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