Less typing, fewer mistakes. More spare time!
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 misspell words when typing?
Typinator boosts your productivity 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 a typing assistant that speeds repetitive typing tasks, but also a system-wide auto-correction tool that automatically fixes typing errors and misspelled words.
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.
Words cannot describe the huge benefits Typinator offers to you.
We therefore invite you to view a short demo movie.
Typinator increases your
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.
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.
Typinator 5 = Text expansion + scripts + includes + calculator + speed + ...
Powerful scripts for everyone, even without programming knowledge.
Typinator 5 offers the most versatile scripting solution for text expansions, which opens up a wide range of opportunities to create more generic and versatile text snippets than ever.
Scripts let you build powerful text expansions with dynamic features like
- stock quotes
- conversions
- calendar functions
- advanced date and time calculations
- clipboard manipulation
- URL processing
- dynamic signatures
- context-sensitive code fragments
The possible uses are virtually unlimited, even without programming knowledge.
Other major new features include:
- Completely rewritten expansion mechanism and many internal optimizations lead to lightning-fast text replacement and unrivaled compatibility with arbitrary target applications
- Text file includes
- Date and time calculations
- Pocket calculator supporting persistent variables
- Insert time zone and time offset relative to UTC
- Delete characters that were typed immediately before the abbreviation
- Universal 32/64-bit binary
- Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or newer
- Improved compatibility with OS X Lion
- ...
Visit the version history for a complete list of changes.
Convert currencies and other units of measure as you type
Convert arbitrary units of measure as you type.
The Conversion AppleScript impressively demonstrates the power and flexibility of Typinator's scripting capabilities. With this free AppleScript installed, you can convert currencies based on current exchange rates as well as arbitrary other units of measure and get the conversion results inserted instantly into the current text.
With no programming knowledge required and only one simple conversion snippet (>>>), you convert any amount from a source unit to a destination unit:
- "20 USD EUR >>>" yields "15.0840938"
- "120 km miles" >>> yields "74.5645431"
- "90 degrees radians" >>> yields "1.57079633"
- "37 Celsius Fahrenheit" >>> yields "98.6"
- "1 kg lbs" >>> yields "2.20462262"
- "95 kW HP" >>> yields "127.397099"
These are just a few examples. The Conversion script comes with various inspiring examples that demonstrate how specialized conversions can be made with just a few keystrokes.
Download the free script and convert arbitrary units of measure as you type, or use it as starting points for your own scripts.
If you have created a script that you want to share with other Typinator users, please let us know. We'll be happy to add it to our Download Extras page.
Features, installation, requirements
Main features
- Easy to configure
- Simple to use
- Include script results in expansions
- Text file includes
- Pocket calculator
- Date and time calculation
- Quickly create new snippets
- Quickly search for snippets
- AutoCorrection sets
- Set options let you define individual settings per set.
- Synchronization support for DropBox and MobileMe iDisk
- Import from TextExpander, TypeIt4Me, text files, ...
- Set the cursor position within the expanded text.
- Insert the current clipboard into the expanded text.
- Inserts the current date and time
- "Types" pictures
- Preformatted text insertion
- Case sensitive expansion
- HTML snippets set
- FileMaker functions set
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 double-click the Typinator icon to install and launch Typinator.
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.
Tips
See also the special topics covered on our Tips pages.