Private TypeCrux: Text Expander

Offline text expander with smart snippets, conditional logic, data lookups, and encrypted local storage.

Your shortcuts. Your data. Your device. TypeCrux is a private text expander for Chrome: type a short trigger, get your full text — smart snippets with conditional logic, data lookups and rich-text templates. No account. No server. No tracking. Works offline. Type /addr and get your full address. Type /meet and get your meeting template with today's date already filled in. MORE THAN TEXT SHORTCUTS A snippet doesn't have to be a static paragraph. It can ask for information, show content conditionally, pull a matching value from a data table, insert a relative date and calculate a result — all at the moment it expands. - Interactive fill-in forms — a snippet asks for names, choices and notes before it types - Conditional blocks — if-then sections that adapt the text to your answers - Dates & times — today, tomorrow, "next Friday", your own formats, built with a visual date-parts builder - Clipboard, page URL, page title and selected text, right inside your text - Calculations & random values — math and picks evaluated at expansion time - Nested snippets — snippets inside snippets, with cycle protection - Cursor placeholder — leave the text cursor at a marked spot inside the expanded text - Text transformations — inserted values can be case- and format-transformed as they expand - Escape placeholder — output literal braces and symbols without triggering a placeholder AN EDITOR THAT KEEPS UP - Full rich text — bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, fonts, font size, colors, highlight, alignment, lists, checklists, links, images, tables and horizontal rules in supported editors, with live preview while you edit, and clear-formatting when you want plain text back - Character, word and reading-time counters, plus find & replace, inside the editor - An emoji picker that learns — your most-used emoji move to the front - Click-to-insert help — every placeholder code in the built-in help drops into your snippet with one click EXPANDS WHERE YOU TYPE, THE WAY YOU TYPE - Plain fields, rich-text editors, iframes, Gmail, webmail, chats and CRM tools - A master switch in Settings pauses all expansion everywhere, instantly - Your rules: custom trigger prefix and expand key (Tab, Space, Enter, period, Shift+Space or your own key), Instant mode, word boundaries and case sensitivity - Smart Case — type /addr, /Addr or /ADDR and the expansion matches your casing - SmartComplete — start a trigger and the match appears as faint ghost text; Tab accepts it, Esc dismisses it. It only ever suggests — it never inserts on its own - Snippet suggestions (opt-in) — TypeCrux notices phrases you keep typing and offers to turn them into snippets - Built-in autocorrect — 300+ built-in typo pairs, searchable and fully editable: fix your usual typos automatically, your way - Changed your mind? One Backspace right after an expansion undoes it - Site rules — turn expansion off per website, or allowlist mode: expansion only on the sites you choose - Multiple triggers per snippet — reach the same text the way you think of it YOUR DATA, WORKING FOR YOU - Data tables — keep price lists and product data in tables (CSV import included) and pull the right row into your text as you type - Contacts — people you write about, with up to 20 custom fields each and one default contact; import them by CSV with a live preview grid - Saved records — teach TypeCrux to grab a value from a page and reuse it in your snippets. Grabbing runs only when you click, never in the background; rules stay editable and records can be renamed. Captured values stay on your device - Folders, tags, favorites, archive and fuzzy search — keep even a big library easy to search. Folders take one of eight colors, any snippet moves to a folder in one click from its row, and empty folders can be cleaned up in folder management - Revision history — earlier versions of each snippet are saved; view or restore them anytime - Usage stats that stay home — expansions, estimated time saved, streaks, top triggers, charts, a 30-day heatmap, peak hours, weekday patterns and period comparisons, all computed locally — and resettable whenever you like - Serverless team packs — build a pack file and share it; teammates import it read-only and refresh it by re-importing. No server, no workspace, no accounts PRIVATE BY DESIGN Some expanders are built around cloud workspaces and accounts. TypeCrux takes the opposite approach: your library lives on your device, and expansion works with the internet unplugged. - 100% local — no account, no cloud, no tracking, no telemetry. TypeCrux itself never sends anything you type anywhere - Vault Lock — optionally encrypt your whole library with your own passphrase (AES-GCM-256, key derived with PBKDF2-SHA-256 at 600,000 rounds). An 8-character minimum and a strength meter guard setup, and you confirm "no recovery" before it turns on. The key lives only in session memory, never on disk, and the vault locks itself when the browser closes. There is no recovery and no server copy: if you lose the passphrase, the library cannot be decrypted. Free for everyone - Automatic local backups — a backup file in your Downloads that stays put even if you uninstall, ready to restore on a fresh install; a Back up now button and an automatic-backup on/off switch are in Settings, and export is always free, never paywalled. With Vault Lock on, the backup file is sealed with your passphrase — and while the vault is locked, no backup file is written at all - Erase means erase — resetting deletes your library, its snapshots and the backup files TypeCrux manages READY OUT OF THE BOX - 30 ready-made packs, 400+ snippets to choose from — support, sales, freelancing, healthcare, legal, recruiting, real estate and more - A step-by-step tutorial that teaches by doing — including fill-in forms — and walks you through pinning TypeCrux to the toolbar for one-click access - A 121-guide Encyclopedia built in — every feature explained inside the product, with search and filter across 16 categories including 27 troubleshooting guides, fully translated in all 16 languages - A What's New banner after each update, so changes never arrive silently - Easy switch — import your snippets from other text expanders, plus plain CSV and TypeCrux backup files. Several files import at once, each with its own honest summary; files over 10 MB are refused up front, large CSVs import in chunks with a progress bar, semicolon-delimited CSVs are detected automatically, backups written by older versions still restore, and encrypted backups ask for their passphrase. Suspicious imports are quarantined for your review, never merged silently - Copy diagnostics — a one-click, privacy-safe support report (version, counts, plan — never your snippet text or keys) - Popup quick-add — turn the current clipboard text into a snippet, or pick text from any page to start one; Pinned and Recent views keep favorites close, rows in the side panel insert or copy directly, and a right-click menu entry opens your library - Honest feedback channel — permanent Rate and Send feedback rows live in Settings, for everyone, with no gating WHO IT'S FOR - Customer support — consistent replies with fill-in fields for names, conditional blocks for each situation, and lookups for the facts you reuse - Sales — follow-ups, pricing replies and meeting messages you don't rebuild every time - Freelancers — proposals, project updates and payment reminders, personalized as they expand - Operations — standard internal messages and structured records built from reusable templates YOURS, YOUR WAY - Interface in 16 languages — English, Español, Português, Deutsch, Français, العربية, हिन्दी, 繁體中文, 日本語, Italiano, Türkçe, Bahasa Indonesia, 한국어, Polski, Nederlands, فارسی — every one fully translated with zero English fallback, Arabic and Persian rendered fully right-to-left, and language packs loaded on demand so the popup stays fast in every language - Light & dark themes, and a settings layout you can reset to its default arrangement - Side panel & command palette — browse your library beside the page, and Ctrl+Shift+K (⌘+Shift+K on Mac) searches your snippets without leaving it FREE & PRO FREE — $0, no account, no time limit - 25 active snippets and 5 data tables - Every feature above, including Vault Lock and all 30 packs PRO — $2.99/mo · $29/yr · $59 lifetime - Unlimited snippets and tables - New packs land for Pro first, then everyone — free - One license works on up to 3 devices; deactivate a device and its slot frees immediately, and pasted license keys are cleaned of stray spaces and invisible characters automatically QUESTIONS, ANSWERED Does TypeCrux work offline? Yes — expansion works fully offline after install. Only installing and buying need their services. Do I need an account? No. There is no TypeCrux account at all. What happens if I forget my Vault Lock passphrase? There is no recovery, by design. Nobody can decrypt the library without it — including us. What happens if I uninstall? Your automatic backups in Downloads stay put and can be restored on a fresh install — unless you chose in Settings to delete them on uninstall. Which browsers and systems? Google Chrome 116 or newer on desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS). Like every extension, TypeCrux can't run on Chrome's own internal pages (chrome://) or in mobile Chrome, and a few heavily locked-down editors may restrict injected text. Less repetition. More control.