FlowType: Text Expander & Snippets

Expand saved shortcuts into replies, signatures and fill-in templates in website text fields.

FlowType is a text expander that turns the sentences you retype all day into a few keystrokes. Save a reply, a signature, a link or a whole template once. Give it a short shortcut like /intro. Type it in any text field, press Tab, and the full text appears. ✔ Your library lives in your browser and works offline ✔ No website access requested at install — you allow each site yourself ✔ No account required, no ads, no tracking ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ DYNAMIC TEMPLATES: ONE SNIPPET, EVERY VARIATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most of what you retype is almost the same every time. Templates ask you before they fill: • Fill-in fields with sensible defaults • Dropdown choices, when only a few answers are ever correct • Optional sections you tick on or off per message • Inline values typed straight after the shortcut: /intro Priya Acme fills [name] and [company] as you go, with quotes for values that contain spaces • Current date and time, inserted as you expand • Date and time arithmetic ("7 days from now", "in 30 minutes"), in your own format and time zone • Nested snippets: keep your signature in one place and every template updates • Cursor stop: place your caret exactly where you want to keep typing • Clipboard insertion: drop what you just copied into the right slot • Tab and Shift+Tab between the fields you just inserted, each one selected ready to overwrite • Prefer different delimiters? Swap {{ }} for any wrapper you like, and existing snippets keep working A form opens on the page, you pick your options, review the finished text, and only then does it insert. Nothing is guessed, nothing is sent anywhere, and your answers never leave the tab. Write snippets as rich text, as Markdown, or as plain text, and switch between the three whenever you like. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👻 GHOST PREVIEWS & FLOATING SUGGESTIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Never wonder whether a shortcut exists. • Start typing and the rest of the shortcut appears as grey ghost text inside the field, in the page's own font, with a preview of what will be inserted • Longer matches lift into a small floating card beside the field • Press Tab to accept; keep typing and it disappears • Nothing ever inserts itself Prefer a launcher? Use the floating trigger at the edge of the page, or press Alt+Shift+J. Type a few letters and press Enter to insert at your cursor. With no field focused, it offers to copy instead, and if nothing matches, it offers to save a new snippet on the spot. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💾 QUICK SAVE: CAPTURE TEXT WHILE YOU BROWSE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The best snippets are the ones you've already written somewhere else. • Select any text and a small Save pill appears beside it, with a shortcut name already suggested • Review it, pick a category, save • Copy something worth keeping and FlowType can offer to save that too • Changed your mind? Undo for five seconds • Also available via right-click, Alt+Shift+S, or the full editor for longer captures Nothing is stored until you confirm, FlowType warns you if that shortcut name is already taken, and a one-click control disables FlowType on that site completely. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧰 THE TOOLBAR PANEL: YOUR LIBRARY IN ONE CLICK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Click the FlowType icon for what you need without leaving the page. • Search your snippets and your settings from the same box, and land on the exact setting you wanted • Pinned snippets first, then your recents, sorted the way you prefer • Copy, edit or pin any row • Write a new snippet right there: shortcut, type, value, and a new category if you need one • Save this page as a shortcut, so /docs brings you back tomorrow • Half-finished snippet? Your draft is still there when you reopen the panel ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 TEMPLATE PACKS: START FROM SOMETHING, NOT NOTHING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ An empty library is the hardest part of any text expander. Pick a ready-made pack and be useful in a minute: • Customer support • Recruiting • Sales and outreach • Freelance and client work (Pro) • Operations and handoffs (Pro) Every pack is shown in full before anything is added. Your existing snippets, shortcuts and settings stay exactly as they are, and a pack is refused outright if it would collide with a shortcut you already use. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS YOU ACTUALLY CONTROL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FlowType should fit your hands, not the other way round. • Choose what expands a shortcut: Tab, Space, Enter, or instantly as you type • Choose your trigger prefix: / ; ! : or # • Make shortcuts case-sensitive, or not • Turn each FlowType shortcut on or off individually • See every key binding and reassign any of them in your browser • Alt+Shift+K opens the search palette and inserts at your cursor • Alt+Shift+J opens the floating trigger • Alt+Shift+S saves what you've selected • Alt+Shift+F opens your library • Single-key shortcuts in the library, so / searches and N starts a new snippet Expansion keeps native undo working, so one Ctrl+Z puts things back. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 MORE THAN TEXT: SAVE BROWSER ACTIONS TOO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Something most text expanders can't do at all. Save actions beside your words and run them the same way: • Search a site straight from a shortcut: type /yt react hooks • Open a link, in this tab or a new one • Switch to a tab you already have open instead of opening a duplicate • Jump to your downloads, bookmarks, history or settings Saved actions are unlimited on every plan, and an action only runs when you explicitly accept it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 RUN FLOWTYPE FROM THE ADDRESS BAR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Type ft in the address bar, press space, and your saved actions are right there. No page needed, no focused field, no clicking. • Start typing a shortcut and matching actions appear, each showing where it will take you • Add your search text after the shortcut: ft yt react hooks • Press Enter for this tab, or open it in a new tab or in the background, whichever gesture your browser uses • ft settings and ft help go straight to your browser settings and to FlowType • A search action that still needs a query says so instead of guessing, and FlowType confirms what it is about to open before it opens it ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛟 BACKUPS & SNAPSHOTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A snippet library becomes muscle memory. Losing it hurts. • Local snapshots inside your browser profile, with no account: create, review, restore, download or delete any of them • Daily schedule: pick the time and how many snapshots to keep (a missed run catches up next time you open your browser) • Cloud backup to your account over an encrypted HTTPS transfer, so a new computer starts where the last one stopped (Pro) • Every restore is reviewed first: see what is about to replace what • Plain JSON export and import on both plans, plus CSV and TSV import if you're moving from another expander • Manual publish and restore through your browser account ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗂️ A LIBRARY THAT STAYS TIDY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Categories with counts, renaming and safe deletion, and deleting a category never deletes its snippets • Pinned snippets for the handful you reach for hourly • Search across shortcuts, content and categories, plus #tag search, and the same box finds your settings • Sort by recently used, recently edited, date created or name • Group by domain or by type • One editor for all four kinds: insert text, open a link, search a site, open a browser page, with live shortcut validation • "Try it" shows the result in a sample field without inserting or running it anywhere real • Rich text, Markdown or plain text, with bold, italic, underline, lists, colors, links and embedded images • Share a group as a file, or print it, when a teammate needs your wording (Pro) • Delete with a five-second undo ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVATE BY DEFAULT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This matters more than any feature. • No website access is requested at install. None. • Grant the sites you want, one at a time or all at once, and revoke them whenever you like. Revoking takes effect in pages you already have open • Disable FlowType on specific hostnames, such as your bank • Your typing and expansions happen on your device; typed page text is never sent to a server for expansion • Clipboard access is a separate permission, asked for only if you use clipboard templates, and clipboard text is never saved into your snippets • No account required • No ads, no tracking, no profiling, and your personal data is never sold ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 MADE COMFORTABLE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Light, dark, or follow your system, with a toolbar icon that matches • Three color families: Classic, plus Green and Blue Mist on Pro • Two interface text sizes • Fonts ship inside the extension, so nothing is fetched from the web while you type • Local statistics: total uses, your most-used snippet, and an estimate of typing time saved based on a speed you set • Suggestions that put your most-used snippets first • Keyboard navigation and visible focus throughout • A short welcome guide, a "shortcut not expanding?" checklist, and a bug report form, all built in ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💎 FREE, AND LIFETIME PRO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Free is a real text expander, not a trial. No timer, no ads. Free includes 15 active text snippets of 2,500 characters each, 7 categories, 10 pins, one dynamic field per template, unlimited saved browser actions, unlimited expansions, every expansion mode and prefix, the palette, the floating trigger, quick save, rich text, Markdown and images, inline [name] values, fill-in fields, dropdowns, optional sections, the current date and time, clipboard insertion, cursor stops, JSON export and import, CSV and TSV import, local snapshots (3 kept) and their daily schedule, browser-account publish and restore, statistics, and the three starter template packs. Pro adds, for one lifetime payment and no subscription: unlimited snippets, categories and pins, 5,000 characters per snippet, unlimited dynamic fields per template, tags and #tag search, nested snippets, custom date and time formats with time zones and arithmetic, Tab navigation between inserted fields, cloud backup with a daily schedule, 30 local snapshots, group sharing and printing, two more template packs, the Green and Blue Mist themes, and a floating trigger you can drag anywhere. Pro is bought inside the extension. Nothing you already saved is removed or locked away if you stay on Free: your library stays readable, searchable and exportable, whatever it contains. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧭 WHAT FLOWTYPE DOES NOT DO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Said plainly, so nothing surprises you: • FlowType expands in ordinary website text inputs, textareas and rich editors • Google Docs, Monaco, CodeMirror and similar editors are not supported • Gmail support is optional, experimental and plain text only • The interface is English only • There are no shared team libraries, and no AI writing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 GETTING STARTED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Install FlowType, pin it to your toolbar, and save the first thing you catch yourself retyping. Allow one site and press Tab. That's the whole learning curve. Questions, bugs or ideas: flowtype.help@gmail.com