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Text Snippets · macOS
Your text expander for Mac. One trigger away.
Save short triggers like addr, sig, or phone — type one, press space, and Voicr expands it into full text in any app on your Mac. Free, native, no limits.
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Type a little. Get a lot.
You type the same things over and over — your address, your email signature, a meeting link, the standard reply you send ten times a day. A text expander for Mac fixes that. You store the long version once, give it a short trigger, and type the trigger instead. Voicr expands it the moment you press space.
Voicr's text expander runs as a native macOS menu bar app. It works in every app you already use — Mail, Slack, Notes, your browser, your code editor, a Terminal window. There is no separate window to open and no syntax to learn. Type your trigger, press space, and the full text appears exactly where your cursor is.
And because triggers can carry dynamic placeholders — {date}, {time}, {clipboard} — a snippet is never frozen text. A trigger for the date always expands to today. A snippet built around {clipboard} wraps whatever you just copied. Set it once and it stays correct forever.
How the text expander works
Four steps, then you forget it is even there.
- 01
Create a snippet
Open Voicr from the menu bar and add a snippet. Give it a short, memorable trigger like addr or sig, then enter the full text it should expand into.
- 02
Type the trigger anywhere
In any app on your Mac, type your trigger as you write. Voicr watches for it quietly in the background and uses zero CPU until it matches.
- 03
Press space to expand
Hit space and Voicr instantly replaces the trigger with your full snippet — at the cursor, in the app you are already in. No clipboard, no paste, no window switch.
- 04
Add placeholders for dynamic text
Drop {date}, {time}, or {clipboard} into any snippet. Voicr fills them in at the moment of expansion, so the result is always current.
What people expand with Voicr
If you type it more than twice, it should be a snippet.
Addresses & contact details
addr, phone, and email triggers turn repetitive form-filling and "where should I send it?" replies into three keystrokes.
Canned replies
Support answers, scheduling messages, the polite no — keep your best-worded responses one trigger away instead of rewriting them.
Code & command snippets
Boilerplate imports, license headers, shell commands you can never remember — expand them straight into your editor or Terminal.
Meeting & calendar links
A single trigger for your booking link or standing call URL, ready to paste into any chat or email.
Dates & timestamps
A {date} or {time} snippet always resolves to the current moment — perfect for logs, notes, and journal entries.
Why Voicr's text expander
Works in every app
System-wide expansion — Mail, Slack, Notion, browsers, IDEs, Terminal. If you can type in it, Voicr can expand in it.
Native and fast
A real macOS menu bar app, not a cross-platform wrapper. It launches in under a second and uses zero CPU while it waits.
Dynamic placeholders
{date}, {time}, and {clipboard} make snippets that update themselves — no editing, no stale text.
Free to start
The free plan includes Text Snippets along with every other Voicr feature. No trial timer, no credit card.
Private by design
Your snippets stay on your Mac. Voicr stores nothing on our servers.
More than a text expander
Voicr also turns your voice into polished text, translates as you speak, and rewrites what you select — one app, one set of shortcuts.
Text expander for Mac — FAQ
Is Voicr's text expander free?
Yes. Text Snippets is included on the free Voicr plan, along with dictation, translation, and every other feature. The free plan gives you 5,000 words a month with no credit card required.
Does the text expander work in every Mac app?
Yes. Voicr expands triggers system-wide — in Mail, Slack, Notion, your browser, code editors, and Terminal. Anywhere you can type, your snippets work.
What are dynamic placeholders?
Placeholders like {date}, {time}, and {clipboard} are filled in at the moment a snippet expands. A snippet with {date} always produces today's date; one with {clipboard} wraps whatever you last copied.
Is it a good Mac alternative to TextExpander or aText?
Voicr covers the core of what a dedicated text expander does — triggers, instant expansion, dynamic placeholders — and bundles it with voice dictation, translation, and AI rewriting in one native menu bar app, starting free.
Do my snippets sync or leave my Mac?
Your snippets are stored locally on your Mac. Voicr does not keep your data on our servers — anything processed is removed afterwards.
Doesn't macOS already have a text expander?
macOS has basic Text Replacements in System Settings, but they don't support dynamic placeholders, can be unreliable across apps, and offer no real management UI. Voicr gives you a dedicated, consistent expander plus voice features.
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Stop retyping the same things.
Voicr's text expander is free, native to macOS, and ready in minutes. Install it, add your first snippet, and never type your address out by hand again.
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