Text and snippets

A small popup of actions that appears when you select text: copy, search, define, and a long list of extensions.

Paid, with a free trial, also on the Mac App Store

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Expand short abbreviations into longer snippets, forms and shared team snippets, by subscription.

Paid subscription

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A paid, buy-once text expander for snippets, dates and formatted bits you type often.

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A long-running Mac text expander with sets, regular expressions and a one-time licence.

Paid, one-time or subscription

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A free, open-source text expander that works the same way on the Mac, Windows and Linux.

Free and open source

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Type a colon and a name to insert an emoji, Slack-style, anywhere on the Mac.

Free, with a paid upgrade

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Shows the keys you press on screen, for recordings, talks and tutorials.

Free and open source

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Another look at the current app's keyboard shortcuts, opened with a key, in a tidy overlay.

Free

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A tiny, scriptable scratchpad for transforming text: encode, format, hash, and write your own scripts.

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A notepad that calculates. Type a sum in words and numbers and it keeps the result in the menu bar if you want.

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A more serious notepad calculator, with units, variables and a clear paper-like tape.

Paid, one-time or subscription, also on Setapp

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A menu-bar colour picker with palettes, contrast checks and export into the tools designers already use.

Paid, $29.99, also on Setapp

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A free, open-source colour picker that lives in the menu bar and does one job clearly.

Free and open source

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A friendly colour picker with contrast, palettes and a menu-bar dropper.

Free, with paid extras

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A menu-bar box of everyday developer tools: encode, decode, format JSON, generate UUIDs, and the rest.

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Hold Command and see every shortcut in the front app, read live from its menus. The job CheatSheet used to do.

Free, with Pro at $14.99 once

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A free, open-source menu-bar app that shows the front app's keyboard shortcuts, grouped by menu.

Free and open source

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