Switch to Typinator and bring your entire aText library with you. The one-click importer reads your groups and abbreviations, so your shortcuts keep working on a text expander that's actively developed, native, and private by design.
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No update since September 2024 and no roadmap for what's next: your library sits in a tool that's standing still.
No re-typing, no re-learning. The inline importer maps your aText groups and abbreviations straight into Typinator.
In aText, select the snippets you want to transfer and export the selected items. Then, in Typinator, choose Action → Sets → Import and select the exported file.
Your aText groups become Typinator sets. Every abbreviation and expansion carries over intact.
Same shortcuts, same muscle memory, instantly working in every Mac app, plus iPhone & iPad.
Before you begin, make sure you have Typinator 10.2 or later installed. Read the detailed import instructions.
Everything you rely on in aText, plus what an actively developed app adds.
Rich text, images, dates, fill-in fields, and formulas, plus AppleScript, JavaScript, and shell scripts inside a single abbreviation. Your snippets do more the moment they land in Typinator.
aText never left the desktop. Typinator 10 syncs your abbreviations across Mac, iPhone, and iPad via iCloud, so your shortcuts are wherever you type.
“I moved years of aText snippets over in an afternoon. Everything just worked and now it syncs to my iPhone.”
aText hasn't shipped an update since September 2024. aText's own FAQ addresses a next version directly: "Nobody knows. No plan. Nothing, even in the imagination." Moving now means you switch on your terms, not during a future outage.
Yes. Typinator imports your aText groups and abbreviations, so your existing shortcuts keep expanding as before, with no re-typing and no re-learning.
Minutes. Download Typinator, run the aText importer, grant macOS accessibility permission, and you are expanding text again right away.
Typinator is a native macOS app and expands system-wide: Safari, Chrome, Mail, Slack, Word, Xcode, VS Code, and every other app, online or offline.
Fully supported. Typinator handles plain and rich text, images, dates, fill-in forms, formulas, and AppleScript/JavaScript/shell scripts inside a single abbreviation.
Typinator for Windows launches in fall 2026. Until then, you'll have to wait.
Download Typinator, import your aText library, and pick up right where you left off.
