Comparison

Snippety vs TextExpander

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Snippety

Boost productivity with instant access to reusable text templates and code fragments. Create smart snippets with an AI assistant for tasks like translation and email replies. Seamlessly integrate with any text field via a dedicated keyboard or share menu extension.

Highlights
  • Reusable text and code snippets
  • Dedicated keyboard for instant access
  • Share menu extension for snippet creation
  • AI Assistant for text generation and editing
  • Smart placeholders for dynamic templates
  • iCloud synchronization across devices
Features
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Stop wasting time typing the same things over and over. Snippety is a powerful text expander and snippet organizer designed to automate your workflow. Instantly access reusable templates for messages, documents, emails, code fragments, developer scripts, marketing details, and more - anywhere you type, paste directly from your keyboard. Snippety integrates seamlessly with every app and text field. Use the dedicated Snippety Keyboard to expand your shortcuts instantly while typing. Want to save something on the fly? Create new snippets directly from any selected text using the Share menu. With native iCloud sync, your entire snippet library is always up to date across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Install Snippety on all your Apple devices for a seamless and unified typing experience. Seamless Integration: • Dedicated Snippety Keyboard to let you access your snippets wherever you type. • Snippety Keyboard lets you easily switch between typing and expanding keywords. Select Snippet Expander, type a predefined keyword, and the snippet will expand automatically. • Snippety Keyboard supports QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, and Dvorak layouts, allowing you to search snippets and fill placeholders directly from the keyboard. • Share menu extension to create text snippets from any application. • Integration with Shortcuts app. • Minimalistic and beautiful design adjusted to light and dark mode. Smart Placeholders: • Create reusable templates by replacing customizable parts with smart placeholders. • Take advantage of 20 smart placeholders: auto-incrementing number, AI assistant, calculated date, calculated time, clipboard content, random value, hyperlink, note, selectable date, selectable value, multiselect, selected text, snippet reference, text transformation, text variable, text variable reference, and multiline text variable. MacOS application supports also script, clipboard history, and file content placeholders. • Avoid repeating the same parameters, with Snippety you can insert the same value into multiple places of your template. • Use conditional blocks to dynamically show or hide parts of your snippet based on provided conditions. • Build reusable parts of your snippets and reference them in other templates. AI Integration: • Enable AI features in all your applications by using AI placeholders. • Access AI directly from Snippety Keyboard without opening the app. • Ask Snippety to generate templates and insert placeholders using AI computing power. • Smart AI assistant placeholder is ready to perform any task for you using the selected text or clipboard content. iCloud Collaboration: • Share selected snippets with co-workers, friends, or across your personal devices, even if they use different Apple IDs. • The new collaboration is built using native Apple technologies, ensuring your data remains secure and never passes through third-party servers. • Control who can access each shared snippet and choose between read-only or write permissions. Flexible: • Syntax highlighting supporting 50+ formats. • Rich Text (RTF), HTML, and Markdown support (with images). Unlimited access: • Sync your snippets seamlessly across Mac, iPhone, and iPad. • Share snippets using secure links. Snippety is free to download and use with up to 8 active snippets. Upgrade to Snippety Pro to unlock: • Unlimited snippets & keyboard usage • iCloud Collaboration • Snippet version history • Database import & export • Shortcuts integration • Custom AI API integration NOTE: Snippety Keyboard works with snippets in any language, but the keyboard itself allows typing English letters + diacritics. Keyboard input is used to fill placeholders, search, or expand snippets by keyword, and these features are limited to the English alphabet. These limitations do NOT affect the app - only the Snippety Keyboard. Terms of Use: https://snippety.app/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://snippety.app/privacy-policy

About

TextExpander

Access your saved text snippets and expand them instantly across any app on your iPhone and iPad. This keyboard app offers features like autocorrect, emoji search, and swipe typing, making it easier to input frequently used phrases, addresses, or links.

Highlights
  • Instant text expansion via custom abbreviations
  • Customizable keyboard with swipe typing
  • Emoji search and suggestions
  • Autocorrect and long-press for accented characters
  • Snippet suggestions in the suggestion strip
  • Fill-ins for dynamic snippet content
Features
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Your TextExpander snippets, on your iPhone and iPad. Sign in with your TextExpander account to access your snippet library at your fingertips. Type ";addr" to expand to your mailing address. Type "zcal" to expand to a link to your schedule / availability. You can type it in Messages, in Mail, in Slack, in your CRM, in your EHR. You get the idea. Your shared snippets are readily synced with the rest of your team. A KEYBOARD WITH SNIPPETS, SWIPE, EMOJI, AND AUTOCORRECT Swipe across the keys, and TextExpander now matches your path to English words and to your abbreviations. Swiped abbreviations automatically expand to their snippets. Plus you have everything else that you'd expect in a keyboard: Autocorrect, emojis (searchable by name, with skin tones, and recents), long-press for accented characters, one-handed mode, haptic feedback, and undo/redo. SNIPPETS THAT COME TO YOU Start typing, and matching snippets appear in the suggestion strip beside your word suggestions. Tap it to expand it. You never need to go looking. PERSONALIZE AND CUSTOMIZE WHAT YOU TYPE Fill-ins give superpowers to your TextExpander snippets, and they work in the app as well. Type the abbreviation, complete your fill-ins, and send. WHAT YOU NEED A TextExpander account, created at textexpander.com. Then add the keyboard in Settings and switch on Full Access (TextExpander needs this to read your abbreviations and insert your snippets). Your snippets now work everywhere you type.

Screenshots

Snippety4 screens
TextExpander4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Snippety at 4.8 against TextExpander's 3.6. Snippety also leads on ratings volume (72 vs 9). TextExpander's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Snippety sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. TextExpander asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Snippety holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Snippety has 72 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Snippety's written reviews are positive against 100% of TextExpander's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Snippety versus TextExpander: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnippetyTextExpander
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (72 ratings) — better3.6 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews88.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings72 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB114 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWojciech KulikTextExpander, Inc.

Customer experience

Snippety

All ratings72 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral2.8%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews155 reviews
Positive88.4%
Neutral5.8%
Negative5.8%

TextExpander

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Snippety

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inconsistent clipboard/paste behavior
  • Issues with Japanese text input and conversion

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved snippet organization (folders, tags, etc.)
  • Live auto-suggest or searchable snippet menu
  • Ability to insert dynamic file content
  • More language support for AI integration
  • Option to keep Snippety window open after pasting

TextExpander

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Snippety

Subscriptions2
  • Snippety Pro$2.991 Month
  • Snippety Pro$19.991 Year
One-time3
  • Snippety Pro - Mobile$19.99
  • Snippety Pro - Upgrade (lifetime)$29.99
  • Snippety Pro (lifetime)$49.99
None

TextExpander

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Snippety free?
Snippety is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TextExpander free?
TextExpander is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Snippety or TextExpander?
Snippety is rated higher. Snippety averages 4.8 out of 5 from 72 ratings, while TextExpander averages 3.6 from 9 ratings.
Do Snippety or TextExpander have ads?
Neither Snippety nor TextExpander shows ads.

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