Switching

Bring your snippets with you.

Shorthand imports from TextExpander, aText, TypeIt4Me, Rocket Typist, Text Blaze, Espanso, Raycast, Alfred, macOS Text Replacements, and any app that exports a spreadsheet. Pick the app you’re coming from.

TextExpander

Directly. Your library, group files, and backups, fill-ins and all.

Espanso

Directly. Your match files or the whole match folder.

Raycast

Directly. Raycast’s Export Snippets file.

Alfred

Directly. Alfred snippet collections.

macOS Text Replacements

Directly. The replacements built into macOS.

aText

Directly. aText library files (.atext) and JSON exports.

TypeIt4Me

Directly. TypeIt4Me set files (.typeit4me).

Rocket Typist

Directly. Rocket Typist folders (.rtfolder) and snippets (.rockettypist).

Text Blaze

Directly. Text Blaze’s folder export (.json).

Typinator, PhraseExpress, and others

From a CSV export. Typinator, PhraseExpress, and any app that exports a spreadsheet.

Whatever you’re coming from

Importing copies your snippets. Your old app and its files stay exactly as they are.
Each import becomes a new group you can rename, merge, or move snippets out of.
Codes that have a Shorthand equivalent are converted. Anything else is kept as text, and Shorthand tells you how many, so nothing disappears silently.
Turn off expansion in your old app once you’ve imported, so snippets don’t expand twice.

Compare Shorthand with other apps · Importing Snippets in the help center