Last week, the popular text expansion program, TextExpander, switched to a subscription model. Subsequently, a lot of people are jumping ship to other software. Programmer Ryan M created a script to bring your snippets over to Keyboard Maestro.

TextExpander backed down a little bit on their new subscription model and made the text expansion software cheaper for existing users. It's still expensive though.

TextExpander is one of the most popular text expansion programs out there, but it's always been a bit pricey at $US35 ($46). Now, that price is jumping significantly with a new subscription model.

Android: Text expansion apps are awesome on the desktop, but Android hasn't had much beyond keyboard shortcuts. Texpand fills the gap with real text expansion for any keyboard.

iOS: We all know text expansion is great, but sometimes it's hard to remember the abbreviations you make. TypeSnippets solves this by making it a more visual experience.

Text expanders ("keyboard shortcuts" in iOS and "personal dictionary" in Android) are great timesavers: tap a few keys, and whole words or phrases are entered instantly Here's a very efficient shortcut if you have multiple email addresses.

Android (root): Text expansion is one of the most useful features of desktop operating systems. On mobile, they're a bit more rare. You can use shortcuts in the stock Android keyboard, but the Macro/Text Expansion Xposed module is for you if you want expansion everywhere.

Text expansion apps are a great way to save time when you find yourself typing the same information repeatedly, but they can do much more than that. One of our favourites is TextExpander on Mac, and it's a powerful tool once you learn how to use it.

We're fans of iOS text expansion to make typing on your iPhone easier. Now, you can sync those shortcuts between your phone and your Mac using iCloud.

You might be surprised by how often you type the same phrases or other blocks of text. Text expansion apps can save you loads of time by automatically creating this text for you when you type short trigger phrases. Do you use it?

Android: There are lots of excellent text expansion apps for Android. However, if you're using the stock Android keyboard, you don't need to look any farther than Settings.

Our favourite text expansion app for Mac, aText, has just been updated. You can now enable sync your snippets so you can use them across computers.

Mac: We love text expansion because it can save you hours of typing every day. There is a wide variety of apps available for Mac, but they tend to be quite expensive for minimum features. Fortunately, aText comes packed with features for not a lot of money.

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Surprise! Mountain Lion has a new secret feature: basic text expansion. Here's how to set it up and some handy shortcuts to get you started.

Mac: TextExpander, one of our favourite text-expansion apps, has added a couple of new features to save you from even more time-wasting typing. Version 4 includes fill-in snippets for personalising form letters or other form fields, as well as a wizard for creating new snippets.

We love text expansion, as it saves us so much time typing every day, and helps us quickly insert snippets of text we wouldn't easily remember otherwise. There are plenty of great standard snippets that belong in everyone's collection, but we want to know what you'd add to the list.

Text expansion is a wonderful thing — especially on a mobile device. Typing a shortcut that expands into a larger amount of text can save a ton of time and effort. While TextExpander exists for iOS, it only works in applications that support it and is of limited use. If you've jailbroken, however, you can use Xpandr which works system-wide and costs significantly less.

We love text expansion on our Macs, but we've always assumed TextExpander was the best option. With some capable challengers, we decided to find out if any of them could dethrone the reigning champion. Here's what we found.