Free Text Expander for Mac and Chrome with AI

TypeFire is a free text expander and snippet management tool designed for Mac and Chrome users seeking to streamline repetitive typing tasks. It enables users to create text snippets—such as email templates, code blocks, addresses, or canned responses—using either a rich text editor or plain text, and assign custom abbreviations or global keyboard shortcuts for instant expansion in virtually any app or website. The platform is suitable for developers, writers, and teams who want to save time and increase productivity by reducing manual typing.

TypeFire operates as both a native macOS application and a Chrome browser extension. The Mac app offers deep system integration, functioning in every Mac application through system-level keystroke monitoring, and supports features like global hotkeys, a Spotlight-style fuzzy-search launcher, and iCloud Sync for seamless snippet library access across multiple Macs. The Chrome extension brings text expansion capabilities to any browser-based app or website on Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera, and is compatible with Windows, Linux, Chromebook, and Mac. Users can synchronize their snippet libraries between Mac and Chrome via JSON export and import.

Key features include abbreviation expansion, global keyboard shortcuts, rich text and Markdown formatting, dynamic tokens for inserting live data (such as date, time, clipboard contents, cursor position, or nested snippets), and AI tokens for rewriting, summarizing, or translating text using Apple Intelligence, Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or local Ollama models. The tool also supports organizing snippets into nested collections and tags, clipboard history with quick conversion to snippets, usage statistics, and the ability to run JavaScript or AppleScript for workflow automation. Importing existing snippets from TextExpander via CSV or legacy backup files is supported, and the interface is available in eight languages.

TypeFire is offered completely free with no subscription, trial period, or usage limits. It is built with Tauri and native system APIs for lightweight performance and a modern, polished macOS interface. This tool addresses the needs of users who require a flexible, full-featured text expander and snippet manager across both native and web environments.