Create custom keyboard shortcuts to expand and replace text as you type!
Want to save time daily when you are typing on the computer? Use Free Auto Text Expander for Google Chrome™ which allows you to type in letter combinations like "LOL" and have "Laugh Out Loud" show up on the computer screen instead. Think of how many sentences/phrases which you type daily over and over again. Our software extension can help save time by saving the keystrokes needed when you have to type in the same phrase over and over.
Change Log
Version 3.0.1
Please note to use this extension features, you HAVE to click on the extension icon to activate the "auto text expander" feature on the website you are on. This is to prevent our script from running automatically on all websites you visit.
This protects your privacy and ensures your browsing history/keyboard typing history etc is NOT sent to external third party websites. Other competitor text expander software scripts "run on all websites" and you have to trust them to ensure they are not sending this information back to their servers etc. For our extension, it is impossible for us to track your keystrokes because the software only works when you click on the extension icon.
Version 3.0.3 Change
Made a bug fix where a warning message showed up after we updated to manifest version 3.
To add text expander text - please right click on the extension icon and choose options. You can add as many text shortcuts as you want inside the options page of this extension.
Version 3.0.4 Change
Due to popular demand to make this software more user friendly, we've added the permission "Works on all websites". You do NOT need to click on the extension icon for the auto text expander feature to work on every webpage you browse. Please note our software does NOT store/capture any of your website visits etc and the only reason we ask for the "runs on all websites" permissions is because we had a lot of users email us asking for a easier version where they did not have to click on the extension icon to use the auto text expansion feature.
Version 3.0.6
Fixed a bug for duplicate copying on some websites
Add export/import feature via json files for exporting/importing your own text shortcuts
Add %clip% command in auto text so that you can automatically paste text you have from the clipboard. Please note due to the new %clip% feature, our extension will require the clipboard permission. None of the text you copy & paste etc is ever sent to our servers, the data is all processed directly on your own computer when you use the %clip% feature.
Localization for options page to be multi-language
:heavy_check_mark: You can add in your own custom phrases/text you want to expand.
:heavy_check_mark: 100% Free Software
:heavy_check_mark: Simple and Easy to Use
Use an auto text expander software today!
Save time typing in your everyday tasks once you install Free Auto Text Expander for Google Chrome™.
Disclaimer: Please note this extension is NOT made by Google and is made by an independent development team. All copyrights belong to their respective owners. Google doesn’t endorse or sponsor this Chrome extension. Free Auto Text Expander for Google Chrome™ is not owned by, is not licensed by and is not a subsidiary of Google Inc.
Latest reviews
- (2024-03-14) N R: This extn works in most plain text fields. Unfortunately not in the one key place I really need it to, when composing an outgoing email in Salesforce. This is in contrast with the similar 'Magical' extn which does work in emails. However we in the European company aren't allowed to use Magical because you need to sign into an account and that breaches some security guideline. My US colleagues don't have that issue and can use Magical. I feel it likely that a simple update is needed to make Auto Text Expander work in all types of page, I suspect that JavaScript or something is interfering.
- (2023-11-07) Dennis Dinse: funktioniert einfach nicht mit chrome. hab 50 shortcuts erstellt nur um zu bemerken, dass einfach nichts passiert wenn ich sie benutzen möchte.
- (2023-11-05) Asim Abdul Ghafoor: It does not work on any site, except its own test/add shortcut page. Please fix and I will give 5 stars. I have tried every way like enable it on all sites. incognito mode etc. Any suggestion will be helpful. Thanks
- (2023-11-05) Alina Kayupova: Отличное расширение, помогает сохранить уйму времени на набор одного и того же текста.
- (2023-11-03) wpnour: شكرا
- (2023-11-02) Илья Фролов: Не работает
- (2023-10-31) Ahmed Hlail: When exporting the file it still shows the old shortcuts that are default even when they are deleted
- (2023-10-28) Ivan Hevkan: Дякую
- (2023-10-10) Dagoberto Jung: Just wanted a tool to replace - with — but it doesn't support shortcuts that begin with a space. It seems to work just fine on the test page, but no matter what I click in the extension, or which settings I change (including switching it to work on all sites) I cannot get it to actually do anything, even when writing this review or posting on chatboards. I don't know if the plugin is just jank, or if it's a strange coincidence that it's not compatible with this page and the one other website I actually needed it for, but either way, it seems like it has potential so 3 stars.
- (2023-10-09) Admin: This is perfect, I use this for all my spelling mistakes, i hate adding ' to words like theres, wont, arent, dont, so when im typing them on my websites it adds them, but right now im noticing that they arent adding them, so maybe not on this site it works, but most others it works.....hmmmm. Also, i have to type my car rental vin numbers alot, so now when i type trailblazerVIN it will put the VIN number instead of me looking it up and typing 17 numbers..... love it.
- (2023-10-09) Tanya Korneeva: У меня не работает, шорткат сделала, сохранила, но при вводе не заменяется, помогите, в чем может быть проблема?
- (2023-10-04) Andrés Venegas: No me funciona en google docs, una pérdida de tiempo
- (2023-09-29) Linda F: Worked like a charm, and free! thank you!
- (2023-09-20) Belkis Soares: Funciona só em sites específicos. Eu precisava para o WhatsApp e lá não funciona
- (2023-09-20) Scott Doyle: This is really a good, solid extension and does what is says it does and simple. Type an acronym and get a sentence or two or even a paragraph. Love it. Way better than Magical which is too intrusive. Well done!
- (2023-09-15) Jacek Leśko: rozszerzenie się mocno zacina, nie podpowiada wpisywanej frazy, musisz byc dokładny a to jest mega męczące
- (2023-09-15) Chaiyakorn: ดีมากครับ ขอบคุณ
- (2023-08-14) REACTOR RANDOM: Шикарно! Очень помогает для решения разных рабочих задач! Спасибо разработчикам!!!
- (2023-08-06) Gianluca Regazzo: Great
- (2023-08-06) Thushitha SR: Helpful
- (2023-08-04) elmo: Exactly what I needed. Thank you!
- (2023-07-31) TheTrain Music: Infelizmente não funciona e não aciona os gatilhos ao digitar. somente funciona nos testes da extensão
- (2023-07-17) wayne silver: I was looking to replace text expander as it is in iOS. This does the job EXCEPT, it will not wait to expand your shortcut until after a space, comma, semicolon, question mark, exclamation point, or period. You can put a space OR other punctuation after a shortcut to emulate this. But unless you want to input each entry a half-dozen times with each punctuation mark, this won't work. It will expand immediately. So, if your shortcut is "bro" for "brother", as soon as you type the "o", it expands. If you are trying to type "brotherly" or "brontosaurus", you will get the expansion after "o".
- (2023-07-08) Yurii Fedoniuk: Lifesaver! Works as expected all the time
- (2023-07-06) Edu Pintilie: does not work
- (2023-07-05) Goto Giok: nice app, but sadly get message "Over Chrome user storage quota! Chrome max capacity: 102400 characters"
- (2023-06-26) Nikita Surkov: great app
- (2023-06-25) Ray Diogo Meza Riveros: excelente extesnsion
- (2023-06-24) Wole Oluwasanmi: Awesome
- (2023-06-23) Slim Souli: Very helpful
- (2023-06-18) Liliana C.: No me funciona en google docs
- (2023-06-18) RuthAlice Anderson: It would be perfect if it worked with Twitter, but it doesn't.
- (2023-06-11) Salman khan Marwat: Thanks for making my work easier
- (2023-06-01) Elizabeth Juarez: exactly what I was looking for
- (2023-05-26) Enoiu Giani: Foarte bună.
- (2023-05-19) Alexey Tsoy: пока все отлично, делает свою работу на 100%
- (2023-05-17) MONICA TOVAR MENESES: La aplicación cumple su labor pero en programas como Salesforce copia dos veces lo programado y se pierde más tiempo en borrar lo que se escribe de más que lo que me demoro digitandolo todo.
- (2023-05-04) juan beltran: Excellent app however does not work when you need to use it on Microsoft team online, on other task it works very well
- (2023-05-01) Mekh: Very good.
- (2023-04-27) Chris Hall: Great potential. I really wanted to like it. But it doesn't seem to work on sites like Facebook
- (2023-04-24) Luis Valdivieso: Esta muy bien la extensión pero debería de poder sincronizarse con algun correo para no perder los short cut, m e falta probar con algunas páginas como salesforce
- (2023-04-18) Manuel Brea: Its great! Specially after the last update, the ability to be able to past thing of the clipboard with %clip% is sooo useful, beyond helpful with any work I have to do, keep up the good work!
- (2023-04-18) Ivon Parchamento (Parcha): I think that there's an update. I tried multiple PC and the extensions don't work. This works fine last week.
- (2023-04-17) Yaz Id: Tidak support dengan teks panjang 5 paragraf
- (2023-04-16) Judy Taya: I've Installed this extension and it just will not work in Chrome. I've Uninstalled and Reinstalled it several times and it just will not work properly for me.
- (2023-04-16) Santiago Ochoa: This is a great tool to save time!
- (2023-04-13) James A Wilson: Love it!!! Works great for me. Saves a lot of time.
- (2023-04-13) ปรานต์ปุ้ง ปุ้ง: Please check last updates . Today not available. Thank you
- (2023-04-12) Paul Hartley: I just can't get it to work properly. I test the shortcuts in the box and one minute they work, next time they don't. I have created only 4 at the moment and only one (the very first one I entered) works. The other 3 are all in the database. I can see them but they don't work. I've saved and refreshed but no luck
- (2023-04-09) Arnab Roy G119962: back up option is missing.