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 phrases again, again and again? Do you frequently need to quickly insert images like your signature, location plan, or company logo into documents? Do you often introduce typos or misspelled words when typing text?

Are you looking for automatic text software that handles such issues for you?

Typinator is an automatic text software that boosts your productivity and eliminates errors by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics and auto-correcting typing errors.

With thousands of predefined corrections for common typos and misspelled words for US and British English, German and French, Typinator is not only just a typing assistant that speeds repetitive typing tasks, but also a system-wide auto-correction tool that automatically fixes typing errors and misspelled words. The auto-correction sets have been carefully designed and optimized even for those who write text in multiple languages.

In addition to its own auto-correction sets, Typinator includes US and British versions of the free TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary with over 2300 additional corrections, making Typinator a superb system-wide auto-correction tool.

The current version of Typinator is 3.6. Read the release notes and download the current version.

See also the special topics covered on our Tips Pages:

	Apostrophes versus Quotation Marks
	Boilerplate usage on Mac OS X
	How to cite efficiently
	Increase productivity
	Text Templates
	Quotation marks
	Typinator - your Spell Checker
	Insert Text and Images

Typinator is an easy-to-use automatic text software that helps you to quickly insert phrases or pictures into any type of document.

Setup is easy: You just define an abbreviation along with its replacement text or picture.

Usage is even easier: Whenever you type one of your abbreviations in any application, Typinator inserts the corresponding replacement.

Want to see Typinator in action? Click here to watch a short demo movie.

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Personal Productivity:

	Set up a list of often used e-mail phrases, addresses and other boilerplates
	Insert the current date and/or time in a variety of formats with a few keystrokes
	Auto-correct commonly misspelled words across all the applications you use
	Insert pictures, such as signatures and smilies

Business Productivity:

	Create standard customer service responses
	Acknowledge customer orders and send shipping advisories (with the current date and time automatically inserted into your standard text)
	Insert logos, product schematics, and maps
	Auto-correct your most frequent typing errors
	Insert Unicode symbols by typing a few special regular characters (e.g., type "->" to insert an arrow symbol)

Development Productivity:

	Create templates for code fragments, code blocks, and templates
	Implement documentation standards
	Define shorthands for frequently used Unix commands
	Use the built-in HTML snippets to simplify and speed up editing of web pages

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Main Features

	Easy to configure - simply define your abbreviations, expansions, and boilerplates in a list
	Simple to use - just type your abbreviation and Typinator will expand it - no special leading of trailing actuator required
	Organize your snippets by their meaning and purpose
	Predefined AutoCorrection sets with thousands of corrections for English, German, and French
	HTML snippets set with over 100 abbreviations for elements of the HTML 4.01 standard
	Predefined FileMaker functions set with over 350 abbreviations of all FileMaker 9 functions
	Set Options let you define individual settings per set
	Synchronization support for DropBox and MobileMe iDisk
	Import from Textpander, TextExpander, TypeIt4Me, text files, and Typinator sets from other users
	Application-specific settings: Define which sets should be active in which applications, or disable Typinator for certain applications
	Set the cursor position within the expanded text
	Insert the current clipboard into the expanded text
	Works with any application
	Inserts the current date and time
	"Whole Word" expansion - optionally expand an abbreviation only if it is typed as an entire word
	Inserts pictures into your text
	Preformatted text insertion
	Case sensitive expansion
	Search feature lets you instantly view only snippets that contain a specified search string
	Option to temporarily suspend expansions
	Full Unicode support
	Clean, easy to install - no special service to be installed

For more details about this automatic text software, see the Features page.

Languages

Typinator is multilingual (English, German, and French).

Installation

To install Typinator, download it from our downloads page. Typinator is distributed as a Mac OS X disk image (DMG). Once you have mounted the disk image, simply drag the application icon to your Applications folder and double-click the copy you have just created. No restart required.

As long as you do not have a license key, you can test Typinator in TextEdit as long and as often as you wish. When you use Typinator in other applications, it will display a registration reminder after a couple of expansions.

Requirements

	Typinator 3.x requires Mac OS X 10.4 or newer
	Typinator 3.6 and newer is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
	Mac OS X 10.6 or newer recommended.
	Universal Binary - runs on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.