{"slug": "typefire-free-text-expander-clipboard-manager-and-markdown-notes-for-mac", "title": "TypeFire: Free text expander, clipboard manager and Markdown notes for Mac", "summary": "TypeFire, a free Mac app combining a text expander, clipboard manager, and Markdown notes, now supports AI-powered snippets via Apple Intelligence, Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and Ollama, with on-device processing and a 7-day Pro trial. The app integrates with Obsidian vaults in place, offers OCR searchable screenshots, and costs $18 once for unlimited clips and Pro features.", "body_md": "[v4Notes, for the markdown vault you already have](/blog/typefire-4-0-notes-obsidian-markdown-mac)\n\n# Free Text Expander for Mac - Type less.\n\nDo more.\n\nA free text expander, clipboard manager and markdown notes app for Mac, plus a Chrome extension. Each is one keystroke away, inside whatever app you are already in. No subscription.\n\nFree forever. Pick your surface, or use all of them. 7 day Pro trial, no card required.\n\nYou type\n\nTypeFire expands it to\n\njane.doe@gmail.com\n\nWorks in Mail, Slack, Chrome, VS Code - anywhere\n\n## Snippets, clips and notes. One app.\n\nEverything you type, everything you copy, and the markdown vault you already have. Without switching apps once.\n\n## Type three characters.\n\nGet the whole thing.\n\nGive any block of text an abbreviation. Type it anywhere and TypeFire replaces it instantly, in every native Mac app and every website. Email templates, code, canned replies, bank details, whatever you retype.\n\n`⌃``⌘``⇧`` T`search your library\n\n### AI inside your snippets\n\n- Apple Intelligence\n- On-device, free\n- Claude\n- OpenAI\n- Gemini\n- Ollama\n- Your own key\n\n### Rich text and Markdown\n\n- Formatting\n- Colours\n- Inline images\n- Markdown to HTML\n\n### Dynamic tokens\n\n- {{date}}\n- {{clipboard}}\n- {{cursor}}\n- {{snippet}}\n\n### Scripts, if you want them\n\n- JavaScript\n- AppleScript\n- Pastes what it returns\n\n## The notes you already have,\n\none keystroke away\n\nPoint TypeFire at a folder of markdown, including a real Obsidian vault, and it opens in place. No import, no copy, and Obsidian keeps working on the same files. Free, all of it.\n\n`⌃``⌘``⇧`` K`search your vault from any app\n\n### Opens your existing vault\n\n- Obsidian\n- In place\n- No import\n- 10,012 files, none modified\n\n### Wikilinks and backlinks\n\n- [[ autocompletes\n- Rename retargets links\n- No graph, by choice\n\n### Capture without opening it\n\n- One keystroke\n- Daily notes\n- No plugin\n\n### Snippets expand inside notes\n\n- Type an abbreviation\n- AI on a note\n- Free\n\n## Everything you copied,\n\none shortcut away\n\nmacOS remembers exactly one thing. TypeFire keeps the rest: text, images, files, and screenshots you can search by the words inside them. Free for your 10 most recent, $18 once for unlimited.\n\n`⌃``⌘``⇧`` V`paste without leaving the app\n\n### Searchable screenshots\n\n- On-device OCR\n- Find by any word in the image\n- Runs at capture\n\n### Filter by source app\n\n- Figma\n- Slack\n- Xcode\n- Chrome\n- Terminal\n\n### AI on any clip\n\n- Summarise\n- Rewrite\n- Translate\n- Free tier\n\n### Stays on your Mac\n\n- Encrypted database\n- No server, your iCloud\n- Password copies never sync\n\n## A Mac text expander, a clipboard manager, and your markdown notes\n\nSix things that would otherwise be six separate apps, six Accessibility permissions, and six things to keep updated. Pick one to see it run.\n\nGive any block of text an abbreviation, then type those few characters to expand it in any Mac app. Unlimited, free forever.\n\nHighlight text anywhere, press a shortcut, and rewrite, translate or shorten it in place. Runs on-device if you want.\n\nPut several AI steps behind one shortcut. Summarise, then translate, then reformat, in a single pass.\n\nEverything you copy, kept and searchable, including the text inside screenshots. Free for your 10 most recent clips.\n\nPoint TypeFire at the folder of markdown you already have, including a real Obsidian vault, and reach every note from any app. Free, including AI on a note.\n\nA Spotlight-style launcher for your whole snippet library, for the snippets you use too rarely to memorise.\n\n## What else you get\n\nAll of it in one app, one set of shortcuts, one permission. Free except unlimited clips, note version history, Selection Prompts and Chains, which are the $18 one-time Pro.\n\n### Live markdown editor and Quick Look\n\nHeadings, bold, lists and images render as you type while the buffer stays raw markdown, so a note is never rewritten in a different dialect on save. Snippets can be written in Markdown and expand as styled HTML. Then press space on any .md file in Finder and read it rendered, with syntax highlighting, instead of raw source. Every Markdown file on your Mac, not only the ones TypeFire made.\n\n### Dynamic tokens\n\n{{date}}, {{clipboard}}, {{selection}} and {{cursor}}, substituted as the text expands. Fill-in placeholders stop and ask you for a name or an amount.\n\n### Image search and storage rules\n\nScreenshots are read on your Mac, so you can find a clip by a word inside it. Auto-delete by age, count or size; pinned clips are always kept.\n\n### Scripts that run\n\nJavaScript or AppleScript, pasting whatever they return.\n\n### Import and export\n\nApple Notes, Word, RTF and whole folders in as markdown. Snippets from TextExpander, aText and Espanso. The files are yours.\n\n### Two-way iCloud sync\n\nSnippets, notes and clips. Edit on one Mac, it is on the other.\n\n### Note version history\n\nEvery save keeps a snapshot you can roll back to. Pro.\n\n### Daily notes and outline\n\nYour existing date format, detected. Jump by heading in long notes.\n\n### AI on a note\n\nSummarise, outline, continue or extract tasks, and choose where the result lands.\n\n### One surface becomes another\n\nA clip becomes a note. A note becomes a snippet with an abbreviation.\n\n### Per-snippet shortcuts\n\nGive any snippet its own global hotkey, with no abbreviation to remember.\n\n### Instant or on delimiter\n\nExpand as you type, or wait for a space, tab or return.\n\n### Rich text\n\nFormatting, colours and inline images, kept intact.\n\n### Collections and tags\n\nFor snippets and notes both. Structure that survives a few hundred of either.\n\n### Expansion stats\n\nHow many, and how much time that saved.\n\n### Light and dark\n\nEither, or follow the system.\n\n### 8 languages\n\nThe whole interface, not just the menus.\n\n### Native, not Electron\n\nSwift and Rust, no bundled browser runtime.\n\n## Pick your surface, or use all\n\nThe Mac text expander is a native app; the Chrome extension is free and works on any operating system, with an iOS keyboard in development. Same snippet library, your choice of surface. JSON export round-trips cleanly between them.\n\n### TypeFire for Mac\n\nFree or Pro\n\nThe deepest integration. Works in every Mac app from Safari to Xcode to Terminal, with global hotkeys, the Spotlight launcher, and iCloud sync.\n\n- Works in every Mac app, not just browsers\n- Markdown notes on the vault you already have\n- Clipboard manager, AI prompts, and chains\n- System-level global keyboard shortcuts\n- iCloud sync across all your Macs\n\n### Chrome extension\n\nFree\n\nWorks in every web app on any operating system that runs Chromium, including Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS where the Mac app cannot reach.\n\n- Works in every browser-based app and website\n- Runs on Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS\n- Same snippet library, JSON import and export\n- Nothing is gated, now or later\n\n### iOS app\n\nFree\n\nA custom keyboard and snippet library for iPhone and iPad, so the abbreviations you built on the Mac come with you.\n\n- Custom keyboard with your snippet library\n- Snippets sync through iCloud\n- In development, no date yet\n\nMost people install the Mac app and the extension. The Mac app handles native text fields like Slack desktop, Mail, and Notes. The extension handles every web app on every device, including Windows and ChromeOS. Snippets move between them through JSON export and import.\n\n## Frequently asked questions about TypeFire\n\nGrouped by topic. Every answer is on the page.\n\nStill not answered?\n\nDevelopers use a text expander for boilerplate: imports, licence headers, error handling blocks, git commit prefixes, and the SQL and shell commands they type weekly but never remember exactly.\n\nScript snippets extend that further, since a snippet can run JavaScript or AppleScript and paste whatever it returns. Writers and bloggers use it for repeated markup, publication-specific formatting, standard bios, pitch templates, and interview questions.\n\nSupport teams use it hardest: canned replies, troubleshooting steps, escalation messages, and closing lines, all paste-ready inside any helpdesk. Sales and outreach teams use it for follow-up sequences, pricing explanations, and meeting-booking language, with dynamic tokens keeping dates correct without editing.\n\nMarketers use it for UTM patterns, campaign briefs, and social copy variants. Everyone else uses it for the boring things: addresses, phone numbers, bank details, wifi passwords, and the email address you have typed ten thousand times.\n\nThere are three steps and the whole thing takes about a minute.\n\nFirst, create a snippet: paste in the block of text you keep retyping, whether that is a signature, a support reply, or a chunk of code. Snippets can be plain text, rich text with formatting and inline images, or Markdown that expands as styled HTML.\n\nSecond, assign a trigger. This is the short abbreviation you will type instead, usually two to four characters with a prefix you would never type by accident, such as \"zem\" or \";sig\".\n\nTypeFire warns you if a trigger collides with an existing one. Third, type it anywhere.\n\nTypeFire watches for the trigger through the macOS Accessibility API, deletes the characters you typed, and inserts the full content in their place, in under 50 milliseconds. This works in every native Mac app including Mail, Slack, Notes, Xcode and Figma, and in every website through the free Chrome extension.\n\nIf you would rather not memorise an abbreviation, Control `Command Shift T`\n\nopens a Spotlight-style search across your whole library instead.\n\nPrice is the first reason: the text expander is free with no subscription and no snippet limit, where TextExpander is about `$40`\n\na year and Typinator is `$24.99`\n\n.\n\nTypeFire's only paid tier is `$18`\n\nonce, and it covers unlimited clipboard clips, Selection Prompts and Prompt Chains rather than the expansion itself. It is a native macOS app written in Swift and Rust rather than an Electron wrapper, so it starts fast and stays out of your memory.\n\nIt works in every single app through the Accessibility API, which is the difference between a real text expander and the built-in macOS text replacement that silently fails in Chrome, VS Code and Slack. Beyond expansion, it does things a text expander normally does not: rich text, Markdown and script snippets, AI inside snippets, a Spotlight-style launcher, a full clipboard manager with OCR search built into the same app, and a free Chrome extension so the same library follows you onto any operating system.\n\nThat last combination is the real difference. A clipboard manager has no snippet engine, a text expander does not watch your clipboard, and no note app has either, so no other app lets you turn something you copied once into an abbreviation you type forever, or a note you keep rewriting into a snippet.\n\nA text expander is a small utility that watches what you type and replaces short triggers with longer text.\n\nType \"zem\" and it instantly expands to your full email address. Type \"zsig\" and your complete signature drops in.\n\nThe point is to stop retyping the same blocks of text dozens of times a day. Most people store between 30 and 200 snippets: email signatures, canned support replies, addresses, common code patterns, meeting templates, slash commands.\n\nPower users build libraries of 500 or more. The technical details matter for which apps it works in. macOS has a built-in text replacement feature, but it only works in native Cocoa text fields.\n\nIt silently fails in Chrome, VS Code, Slack, and most cross-platform apps. Dedicated text expanders like TypeFire monitor keystrokes through the Accessibility API, which works everywhere on macOS.\n\nTypeFire watches keystrokes through the macOS Accessibility API, the same low-level system that screen readers and voice control use.\n\nWhen you type a registered abbreviation, TypeFire detects the match, deletes the abbreviation characters, and pastes the full snippet content. The whole sequence takes under 50 milliseconds, which is faster than your screen can refresh.\n\nYou can trigger a snippet three ways. First, by typing an abbreviation like \"zem\" or \"zsig\".\n\nSecond, by pressing a global keyboard shortcut you assigned to a specific snippet (like `Cmd+Shift+E`\n\n). Third, by opening the Spotlight-style launcher with Ctrl+`Cmd+Shift+T`\n\n, typing a few letters, and picking the snippet from a fuzzy-search list.\n\nThe Accessibility permission is granted once during setup. TypeFire never sends your keystrokes anywhere. Detection and replacement happen entirely on your Mac.\n\nYes, for text expansion. The expander is free with no subscription and no feature gates: unlimited snippets, unlimited collections, abbreviation expansion, keyboard shortcuts, the Spotlight-style launcher, rich text editing, Markdown expansion, dynamic tokens, iCloud Sync, JavaScript and AppleScript scripting, AI tokens with five provider options, and the multilingual interface across 8 languages.\n\nPro is `$18`\n\nonce and covers five features: unlimited clipboard clips, Selection Prompts, Prompt Chains, notes sync and note version history. The clipboard manager itself works free for your 10 most recent clips.\n\nThe cost comparison against paid alternatives is direct. TextExpander charges `$40/year`\n\non a subscription. aText costs `$4.99`\n\nbut stopped getting updates in 2016.\n\nTypinator is `$24.99`\n\nas a one-time license. TypeFire's text expander is `$0`\n\nforever, with an optional `$18`\n\none-time Pro tier, distributed through GitHub releases as a notarized macOS binary.\n\nThe project runs at near-zero cost because it has no cloud backend. Snippets stay on your Mac. iCloud Sync uses your own iCloud Drive.\n\nAI features use your own API keys. Nothing routes through a TypeFire server.\n\nYes, three free options. First option: Apple Intelligence.\n\nIf you have `macOS 26`\n\nTahoe or later on Apple Silicon, Apple Intelligence runs on-device at zero cost. No API key, no usage limit, fully offline.\n\nThe model is smaller than the cloud ones but handles rewrite, summarize, and translate well for typical lengths. Second option: Gemini free tier.\n\nGoogle offers a free tier on the Gemini API with generous daily quotas (currently 15 requests per minute and 1500 requests per day on the standard model). Sign up for an API key at ai.google.dev, paste it into TypeFire settings, done.\n\nFor light personal use this rarely hits the limit. Third option: local Ollama.\n\nInstall Ollama on your Mac (free, open source), pull an open-source model like Llama 3, Mistral, or Qwen, and point TypeFire's Custom provider at http://localhost:11434. Usage is unlimited, fully offline, nothing leaves your Mac.\n\nThe tradeoff is that the model runs on your CPU/GPU so quality and speed depend on your hardware. Most people start with Apple Intelligence if their Mac supports it, then add Gemini or Ollama for power use cases.\n\nTypeFire is free. AI costs depend on which provider you pick.\n\nFree providers. Apple Intelligence (on-device on `macOS 26`\n\n+), Gemini free tier, and local Ollama all cost zero.\n\nThese cover most personal use cases without spending anything. Paid providers.\n\nClaude (Anthropic) and OpenAI charge per token. For typical TypeFire use cases rewriting paragraphssummarizing emailstranslating short text, a request costs somewhere between `$0.00`\n\n1 and `$0.01`\n\n.\n\nA heavy daily user might spend `$1`\n\nto `$3`\n\nper month. Both Claude and OpenAI let you set monthly spending caps on their dashboards, so there is no surprise bill risk.\n\nTypeFire does not mark up AI usage or take any cut. The API key you paste in connects directly to the provider.\n\nYour usage shows up on your provider's billing dashboard, not TypeFire's. The app itself never charges you, never sees your API responses, and has no way to monetize your AI usage even if it wanted to.\n\nDynamic tokens are placeholders that resolve to live values when a snippet expands.\n\nEight built-in tokens cover most needs.\n`{{date}}`\n\ninserts today's date. `{{time}}`\n\ninserts the current time. `{{datetime}}`\n\ninserts both. Each takes an optional format string like `{{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}`\n\nor `{{time:HH:mm}}`\n\nfor custom output.\n`{{clipboard}}`\n\npastes whatever is currently on your clipboard. `{{cursor}}`\n\npositions the cursor at a specific spot within the expanded snippet, so you can type immediately at the right place. `{{snippet:abbr}}`\n\nnests one snippet inside another, useful for composable templates.\n`{{key:tab}}`\n\nor `{{key:return}}`\n\nsimulates a key press, useful for filling form fields. `{{nbsp}}`\n\ninserts a non-breaking space.\n\nTokens turn static text into context-aware templates. A meeting note template might start with the date filled in, jump the cursor to the attendee list, and end with your sign-off. Without tokens, the same snippet would expand identically every time.\n\nYes. TypeFire has built-in iCloud Sync that keeps your snippet library in sync across every Mac signed into your Apple ID.\n\nTurn it on once in Settings and your snippets, collections, and tags sync within seconds whenever you make a change. The sync uses your own iCloud Drive, not a TypeFire-operated server.\n\nSync runs through your own iCloud Drive, protected by your Apple account. TypeFire has no server in the path and never sees the contents of your snippets.\n\nThis is different from TextExpander, which routes snippet data through its own cloud infrastructure as part of its subscription service. iCloud Sync is free and unlimited. There is no per-snippet cap, no per-device cap, and no separate fee.\n\nIf you have three Macs at home plus a work laptop, all four stay in sync at no cost. The one limitation is that Sync is Mac to Mac today.\n\nAn iOS keyboard is in development, with no release date to announce yet. On iOS, text expansion has to run through a custom keyboard rather than system-wide, which is the approach that app takes.\n\nTypeFire supports five distinct snippet content types, each with an editor tuned to that format.\n\nPlain Text is the simplest. Just text, expanded character-for-character with no formatting.\n\nBest for email addresses, short canned phrases, and code snippets where formatting would interfere. Rich Text uses the built-in TipTap editor and supports font family, size, color, highlighting, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, bullet lists, numbered lists, code blocks, images, and links.\n\nExpands as rich text in any app that accepts formatted clipboard content. Markdown lets you write snippets in Markdown source format.\n\nWhen the snippet expands, TypeFire converts the Markdown to HTML and pastes it as formatted text. The source file stays clean and readable in any text editor.\n\nJavaScript snippets run JavaScript code when triggered and paste the return value. Useful for clipboard transformations, dynamic computation, or generating output that depends on context.\n\nAppleScript snippets work the same way, running AppleScript and pasting the result. Used for macOS automation, controlling other apps, or pulling data from system services. Each content type can also use dynamic tokens like `{{date}}`\n\nand `{{clipboard}}`\n\n.\n\nYes. TypeFire ships with a full rich text editor built on TipTap, the same WYSIWYG framework used in modern apps like Notion.\n\nThe editor supports font family, font size, font color, text highlighting, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, bullet lists, numbered lists, code blocks, inline images, and hyperlinks. When you trigger a rich text snippet, TypeFire writes the formatted content to your clipboard as rich HTML and pastes it.\n\nThe result keeps its formatting in any app that accepts rich clipboard content. This works in Mail, Pages, Word, Slack messages, Notion pages, and most other modern apps.\n\nApps that only accept plain text (Terminal, vim) get the plain text version automatically. For developer-style workflows, TypeFire also supports Markdown snippets.\n\nWrite your snippet in Markdown source format and it expands as fully rendered HTML at paste time. The Markdown source stays in your snippet file, which makes diffing and version control easy if you keep your vault in git.\n\nYes. TypeFire treats variables as dynamic tokens (covered in detail in the dynamic tokens question above).\n\nThe practical way to think about variables: any data point that changes by context goes into a token, and TypeFire resolves it at paste time. Common patterns. `{{date}}`\n\nfor daily logs and meeting notes. `{{clipboard}}`\n\nfor snippets that wrap whatever you just copied (like a Markdown link wrapper, or a console.log of the clipboard content). `{{cursor}}`\n\nfor jumping the caret to a fill-in-the-blank position. `{{snippet:abbr}}`\n\nfor composing reusable building blocks (your signature inside your email template).\n\nFor more dynamic logic than tokens cover, JavaScript snippets give you full programming capability. You can read the clipboard, transform it, query system data, and paste a computed result.\n\nAppleScript snippets do the same with deeper access to other Mac apps. The token system covers maybe 80 percent of cases. Script snippets cover the rest.\n\nYes. TypeFire works in every Mac app that accepts text input.\n\nThis includes native apps like Safari, Mail, Notes, Pages, and Numbers, plus Chromium-based browsers ChromeEdgeBraveArc, Electron apps VS CodeSlackDiscordNotionFigmaLinear, terminal emulators (Terminal, iTerm, Warp), Microsoft Office, JetBrains IDEs, and any other text-input surface. Why this works universally: macOS Accessibility APIs sit underneath the application layer, so they see keystrokes regardless of what framework the app is built on.\n\nApple's built-in text replacement feature, by contrast, only works in native Cocoa text fields and silently fails in everything else. Setup is a one-time grant of the Accessibility permission.\n\nNo per-app configuration, no extensions to install in browsers, no plugins for editors. The abbreviation you typed, the keyboard shortcut you bound, and the Spotlight-style launcher all work the moment you switch focus to any app.\n\nTypeFire supports `macOS 12`\n\nMonterey and every release since.\n\nThat covers `macOS 13`\n\nVentura, `macOS 14`\n\nSonoma, `macOS 15`\n\nSequoia, and `macOS 26`\n\nTahoe. Each major macOS release gets tested before TypeFire ships.\n\nTypeFire runs on `macOS 12`\n\nMonterey and later. There is no bundled browser runtime, which keeps installs lean and startup fast.\n\nApple Intelligence features in TypeFire require `macOS 26`\n\nTahoe or later, since that is when Apple shipped the on-device foundation models. On older macOS versions, the rest of the AI provider integrations ClaudeOpenAIGeminiOllama work normally. Every other TypeFire feature works on all supported macOS versions.\n\nTypeFire's interface is fully translated into 8 languages: English, Spanish (español), French (français), Portuguese Brazil (português brasileiro), German (Deutsch), Italian (italiano), Dutch (Nederlands), and Russian (русский).\n\nEvery UI surface is localized, not just menu labels. That includes the sidebar, the snippet editor, settings panels, the Spotlight-style launcher, onboarding flow, error messages, and notifications.\n\nRoughly 800 strings per locale. To switch languages, open Settings, go to Appearance, and pick a language from the dropdown.\n\nTypeFire restarts to apply the new language and remembers your choice across launches. On first launch, TypeFire defaults to your macOS system language if it matches one of the eight supported locales.\n\nSnippet content itself can be any language and any script CyrillicCJKRTLemoji. The localization is for the app interface specifically. If you write Russian snippets while running TypeFire in English, both work fine together.\n\nYes. TypeFire has AI tokens you drop into any snippet.\n\nThe built-in tokens are `{{ai:rewrite}}`\n\n, `{{ai:summarize}}`\n\n, `{{ai:translate:fr}}`\n\n(or any language code), `{{ai:fix}}`\n\nfor grammar, and `{{ai:custom:your-prompt}}`\n\nfor arbitrary prompts. Drop one of these into a snippet, bind the snippet to a shortcut, and the AI runs against your current text selection or clipboard contents.\n\nFive AI provider integrations are supported. Apple Intelligence runs on-device on `macOS 26`\n\nTahoe or later, costs nothing, and works fully offline.\n\nClaude (Anthropic), OpenAI (ChatGPT), and Gemini (Google) use your own API keys for cloud-based requests. The Custom provider option accepts any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, which covers local model servers like Ollama and LM Studio, plus hosted gateways like Groq, OpenRouter, and Together.\n\nA typical example. Highlight a paragraph you wrote, press your shortcut, and the AI rewrites it.\n\nOr copy a long thread, type `{{ai:summarize}}`\n\n, and a TL;DR pastes back. Whatever the result is, it lands directly in the app you were typing in, no copy-paste back and forth.\n\nThe biggest difference is the pricing model. TextExpander costs `$40`\n\nper year on a subscription that automatically renews.\n\nTypeFire is free forever with no subscription. For an individual user that adds up to roughly `$400`\n\nin TextExpander fees over a decade for the same core feature set.\n\nBeyond cost, the technical differences favor TypeFire on a Mac specifically. TypeFire is a native macOS app built with Swift and Rust, which compiles to a small native binary.\n\nTextExpander is built on Electron and runs a bundled Chromium runtime, so it uses more memory and CPU than a comparable native app. TypeFire also stores snippets as plain Markdown files in a folder you choose, so there is no vendor lock-in.\n\nTextExpander stores in its proprietary cloud database. Feature-wise, both handle abbreviation expansion and global shortcuts well.\n\nTypeFire adds Markdown expansion (write in Markdown, expand as formatted HTML), AI tokens with five provider integrations, JavaScript and AppleScript scripting, and a Spotlight-style launcher. TextExpander's main advantage is team collaboration features for workplaces, which TypeFire does not offer.\n\nYes. TypeFire is built around a privacy-first design.\n\nSnippet content stays on your Mac as plain Markdown files in a folder you choose. The app never reads, transmits, or stores your snippet contents on any server.\n\nKeystroke monitoring happens entirely on your device through the macOS Accessibility API. TypeFire sees the characters you type to detect abbreviations, but those keystrokes are processed in memory and discarded immediately.\n\nThey are never logged, transmitted, or persisted. The Accessibility permission is the only system permission TypeFire requests.\n\nNo Input Monitoring permission is required. Telemetry is anonymous.\n\nAnonymous counts of active installs and expansion totals, without identifying individual users. No Mixpanel, no third-party tracking pixels, no personal data of any kind.\n\nThe one piece of personal info we do touch is your email, which you provide during signup to verify the install. Email is stored in a Google Sheet for usage tracking and is never shared. iCloud Sync, when enabled, routes through your own iCloud Drive.\n\nSync runs through your own iCloud Drive, protected by your Apple account. TypeFire has no server in the path and never sees your snippets.\n\n## Start typing smarter today\n\nThe best free text expander for Mac and Chrome, with a clipboard manager and your markdown notes in the same app. Create snippets, auto-expand text anywhere, and reach your whole vault from a keystroke. 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