Comparison

Typinator Mobile vs TextExpander

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

Head to head
About

Typinator Mobile

This app expands abbreviations into frequently used text across all your iOS applications. It offers seamless iCloud syncing with its Mac counterpart, allowing quick access to custom text snippets and templates.

Highlights
  • Text expansion via custom keyboard
  • iCloud sync with Mac version
  • Access abbreviation sets and groups
  • Fast and reliable keyboard integration
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Typinator expands abbreviations into frequently used text across all iOS apps. Type a short abbreviation and Typinator instantly inserts the full text – emails, responses, dates, templates, AI prompts. Core Functions • Text expansion across all iOS apps via custom keyboard • Seamless iCloud sync with Typinator for Mac • Access your abbreviation sets and groups • Fast and reliable keyboard integration Requirements • Typinator 10 for Mac (version 10.0 or later) for syncing abbreviation sets • Active Advanced or Business subscription for full feature access

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

Typinator Mobile3 screens
TextExpander4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TextExpander at 100% against Typinator Mobile's 0%. TextExpander also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TextExpander holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Typinator Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of TextExpander's.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Typinator Mobile versus TextExpander: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTypinator MobileTextExpander
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB114 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErgonis Software GmbHTextExpander, Inc.

Customer experience

Typinator Mobile

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%

TextExpander

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

In-app purchases

None

Typinator Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

TextExpander

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Typinator Mobile free?
Typinator Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TextExpander free?
TextExpander is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Typinator Mobile or TextExpander?
TextExpander is rated higher. Typinator Mobile averages 2.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while TextExpander averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Typinator Mobile or TextExpander have ads?
Neither Typinator Mobile nor TextExpander shows ads.

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