Text Expander - Type

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About this app

🚀 Type - The Smartest Text Expander for Android

Stop typing the same things over and over. Type lets you create powerful text shortcuts that expand into full phrases, templates, and smart snippets — instantly, in most apps, without switching your keyboard.

But Type is more than a text expander. With a built-in Command Palette, calculator, media controls, and system commands, it's like Raycast or Spotlight — for Android.

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⌨️ TEXT REPLACEMENT & EXPANSION
• Create short keywords that auto-expand into long phrases
• Works in most apps — messaging, email, notes, browsers
• No keyboard swap required — uses Accessibility Service
• Instant or delimiter-based trigger modes

📋 SMART SNIPPETS & TEMPLATES
• Save frequently used text as reusable snippets
• Nest snippets inside snippets
• Quick search to find and insert any snippet
• Import/export for backup and sharing

🔮 DYNAMIC PLACEHOLDERS & MODIFIERS
• {date} / {time} — Current date & time with custom formats
• {date offset="+3d"} — Future/past date calculation
• {clipboard} — Auto-paste clipboard contents
• {uuid} — Generate unique IDs
• Modifier chaining: {clipboard | trim | uppercase}

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🎯 COMMAND PALETTE

Press Ctrl+Space on a Bluetooth keyboard (or use the floating button) to open the Command Palette — your universal launcher:

🧮 BUILT-IN CALCULATOR
• Type "= 15*3" and get instant results
• Unit conversions included
• Copy results to clipboard with one tap

🎵 MEDIA CONTROLS
• //media/play, //media/next, //media/prev
• //media/vol_up, //media/vol_down

🏠 SYSTEM COMMANDS
• //command/home, //command/dark
• //setting/dnd, //setting/notification

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🔡 TYPE KEYBOARD — OPTIONAL
For the apps where shortcuts don't expand — keep your own keyboard elsewhere.
• Shortcut suggestions above the keys
• Undo an expansion with one backspace
• Per-app auto switch (Android 11+)
• 7 languages, hardware keyboards supported

☁️ GOOGLE DRIVE BACKUP — PREMIUM
• Back up & restore shortcuts and folders in your own Google Drive
• Optional daily auto backup

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💡 WHO IS TYPE FOR?

• 📱 iPhone → Android switchers missing iOS text replacement
• 💼 Customer support agents — quick reply templates
• 👔 Business professionals — email signatures, canned responses
• 💻 Developers — code snippets, boilerplate, debug templates
• ⌨️ Bluetooth keyboard users — Ctrl+Space for instant commands
• ✍️ Power typers — anyone who types the same text repeatedly

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♿ ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE DISCLOSURE
This app uses Android's Accessibility Service to:
• Detect text fields and read what you type, to match your shortcuts
• Replace a shortcut with its text, or run its action (such as Home, Back, screenshot)
• Show its own windows, such as suggestions, Command Palette, floating button
• Know which app is in front, for app-specific shortcuts and the optional per-app keyboard switch
• Receive hardware key presses for suggestions and the Command Palette shortcut
• Read text you select or copy for the {clipboard} variable (kept in memory only)

The service is used only to provide Type's features and is essential for text replacement to work across apps. What it reads is processed on your device and is never sent to any server.

🔒 PRIVACY
• Your shortcuts and settings are stored on your device
• What you type is never uploaded or shared
• Backup: export to a file, or optional Google Drive backup (Premium) in your own Google Drive
• The app uses Firebase for usage statistics (such as which kind of feature was used — never your text) and crash reports, and Google AdMob to show ads in the free version. These Google services may collect device identifiers such as the advertising ID. See the privacy policy for details.

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⚡ WHY TYPE?

✅ Works in most apps — no keyboard change needed
✅ Command Palette with Ctrl+Space shortcut
✅ Built-in calculator with unit conversion
✅ Media controls & system commands
✅ Optional Type Keyboard
✅ Google Drive backup (Premium)

Type less. Do more. 🚀

Ratings and reviews

App is gorgeous. It seems to work fast. Price is very high: 4$/mo, 21$/y, or 40$/lifetime. It's always quite risky to spend money on an app that you don't know if it will be maintained. Competitors are Texpand (dead?) and Expandroid (ugly). When I click the button to get in touch with the developer for a question or comment, it opens up in my email app but there's no "to:" address. There's other weird things (par for the course, when you use AI to build) but there's no room in this comment

Not only we can use shortcut for chats, we can even use shortcut to open a app, or any action. which is really good. I don't know how much time it would be free. Cons: I need a widget to type shortcuts in home screen. I recommend to add accessibility shortcut in screen so you can enable or disable shortcut with ease. I would happy if they introduce auto reply feature. etc. Still in early use. Thank you✨( shortcut - ty).

The Best App Launcher and Text Expander! I have been a power user on my Macintosh for years using Alfred and TextExpander To do just about everything. I avoid the mouse as much as possible. This app is a game changer! Now I can do the same on my phone without having to search through apps and icons and all the UI that just gets in the way of getting my work done. With just one or two keystrokes I can launch any app I want or expand any text snippet. Well worthy, reasonable annual subscription.

What’s new

⌨️ Type Keyboard + Google Drive backup

✨ What's new:
• Type Keyboard — for apps where shortcuts don't expand
• Suggestions above the keys, 7 languages
• Per-app auto switch — Type Keyboard in the apps you pick, your own keyboard elsewhere
• Works with hardware keyboards too
• Google Drive backup & restore, daily auto backup (Premium)

🎨 Improvements:
• Main screen redesigned around your shortcuts
• Tidier settings and backup screens
• More reliable backup restore