TypeValet: the typing command center for Mac

Why it exists

Every other expander swaps your clipboard and hopes.

To paste an expansion, most Mac expanders quietly put your text on the clipboard, press paste, then try to restore what was there. On a busy Mac, another app can write to the clipboard in that split second, and your copied text vanishes. TypeValet records the clipboard's exact state, and restores it only when nothing else has touched it. Anything it holds is also kept in your history, so a busy Mac cannot make it vanish either way.

Included

The race-proof engine

Your clipboard is checked before it is put back. If another app wrote to it mid-paste, TypeValet keeps theirs and logs the moment, instead of overwriting it. This is the mechanism that exposes classic clipboard-swap expanders like aText to dropped text on a busy Mac.

Included

The Secure Input sentinel

When a password field or another app locks input, every expander goes silent, with no explanation. TypeValet notices, and names the app that is holding the lock in your menu bar, so you are never left wondering why nothing fired.

Pro

Transforms that write with you

A snippet field can rewrite the tone, translate, or turn your clipboard into a reply using the interactive fields you already use. Bring your own key for Claude, GPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and more, or run a local model with no key; nothing is metered or routed through us. Offline, fields fall back to plain placeholders.

Variables

Snippets that know the date, the clipboard, and the blanks.

Drop a variable into any snippet and it resolves the moment you type the trigger: today's date, date math, whatever you just copied, a blank that asks you by name. All local, all instant.

{{date}}→

{{date +3d}}→

{{date next friday}}→

{{date +1mo | MMMM yyyy}}→

{{time}}→

{{clipboard}}→whatever you just copied, dropped in place

{{First name}}→a blank that asks you, right as it expands

{{snippet:sig/}}→nests your signature snippet inside this one

{{AI: match my warm tone}}Pro→rewrites the field with the AI you bring

The date and time outputs above are computed live on this page, exactly as the app renders them. Offsets go the other way too: -2w, yesterday, last monday.

The workspace

One engine for everything you type.

A text expander and a clipboard manager welded into a single engine, so a snippet you just typed and a screenshot you just copied never fight over the same clipboard slot. Every screen below is a real capture of the app itself, shown with sample data.

Included

Snippet search

A named, always-visible shelf of your best lines, grouped and searchable, so nothing worth keeping gets buried in scrolling history.

Press ⌘⇧Space anywhere. The screen above is a real capture of the app's own search panel.

Included

Dynamic fields and tokens

{{date}}, {{clipboard}}, {{cursor}}, nested snippets, and regex triggers, auto-detected as you write a snippet and filled in as you type it.

TypeValet's Snippet Library editor: a three-pane view of groups, the snippet list, and an editor with a detected Name fill-in field

TypeValet's Snippet Library editor, dark theme

The screen above is the real three-pane Snippet Library editor.

Pro

AI transforms, your key

Select any text, press ⌘⇧T, and improve, translate, or rewrite it with the AI you already pay for: Claude, GPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Mistral, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, or a local model through Ollama or LM Studio. Your key stays in your Mac's Keychain. Nothing is metered or routed through us. The shortcut is yours to remap.

TypeValet's AI Transform palette open over a real text selection, showing nine transform types and a translate-to-Spanish field

TypeValet's AI Transform palette, dark theme

Nine transform types, off until you turn them on. The screen above is a real ⌘⇧T capture against a real selection.

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Cross-machine library

Your snippets follow you from desk to laptop. Deletes and edits merge automatically, so nothing silently reappears or vanishes.

TypeValet's Snippets menu open in the Mac menu bar, showing Sync from Other Machine

Mac-to-Mac, opt-in, and off until you sign in. Edits and deletes merge cleanly in both directions.

Included

Everything you copied, one keystroke away

Press ⌘⇧V and your last 500 copies are there, searchable, grouped by when you copied them, with the app each one came from. Pin the ones you keep reaching for. Copy a screenshot and it is there too, as a picture rather than a line of text describing one.

The TypeValet clipboard history palette, showing pinned and recent clips grouped by age, with a picture clip and its details.

The TypeValet clipboard history palette in dark appearance, showing a picture clip selected with its dimensions and size.

A real capture of the palette, with sample clips. Held in memory only: never written to disk, cleared when TypeValet quits, which the palette says in its own footer.

Included

The snippets you actually use

Settings shows what you really reached for this week, this month, this year, and all time. Most people find two or three snippets carrying almost all the work, and a dozen they wrote once and forgot. It is a good way to know what to write next.

TypeValet Settings showing the Usage pane: expansions this month and a ranked list of most-used snippets.

TypeValet Settings Usage pane in dark appearance, showing expansion counts and most-used snippets.

A real capture, with sample data. The counts stay on your Mac: nothing is sent anywhere, and the app carries no analytics of its own.

Also in the box The rest of the engine, one line each

Ask Claude to find any snippet by description, through a Model Context Protocol server that runs on your own Mac · one-click aText and TextExpander import · regex triggers for power users · the Secure Input sentinel that names the app blocking your typing · rich text and image snippets · usage counts that stay on your machine.

See pricing →

The proof

TypeValet vs. the field

Expanders, clipboard managers, and AI snippet tools each do part of the job. TypeValet is the one that combines them and engineers the reliability underneath. The rows in bold are things no competitor combines.

Capability that matters	TypeValet	TextExpander	aText	Typinator	Espanso	Raycast
Race-proof clipboard restore (verified, not guessed)	Only one	✗	✗	not verified	not verified	n/a
Names the app that silently blocks typing	Only one	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗
Clipboard manager built in (history, pin, palette)	✓	✗	basic	✗	✗	✓✓
Fill-in / interactive fields	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	partial
AI transforms driven by your fill-in fields	Only one	suggest	✗	✗	✗	separate
Local-first by default; sync is opt-in, never required	✓	cloud	manual	local	manual	✗
One-time price, no subscription	✓	✗ sub	✓	✓	free	freemium
One-click import from aText + TextExpander	✓	n/a	—	partial	partial	✗
Syncs between your own machines	✓ opt-in	✓	manual	manual	manual	via Raycast account
Design and brand craft	✓	standard macOS chrome	dated UI	✓	CLI, no GUI	✓✓

Only one = a capability no other tool here combines · ✓✓ two strengths combined · ✓ full · partial · ✗ absent. Competitor facts from published pricing and docs, mid-2026.

Where the minutes go

The same 40 keystrokes, 11 times a day.

Nobody buys a text expander because typing is hard. They buy one because the same paragraph keeps having to be produced from memory, correctly, while somebody waits.

The reply you have written 100 times

The scheduling line, the "here is what I need from you" list, the polite decline. Each one is 30 seconds and a small tax on attention, and you pay it before you have started the actual work.

The address, the license key, the tax number

Details you should not be holding in your head and should not be hunting through a note for. One shortcut, and it is exactly right every time, including the punctuation nobody proofreads.

The thing you copied, then lost

You copied the link. Then you copied something else. The first one is gone, and you go back to find it again. A clipboard history that keeps your last 500 copies turns that from a five-minute detour into a keystroke.

The template with three blanks in it

Most of the paragraph is always the same and three parts never are. Fill-in fields ask you for the three, at the moment you expand, so you are not editing around your own boilerplate.

The snippet you cannot remember the shortcut for

A library you have built over years is only useful if you can find things in it. Ask Claude for the one about renewal terms and it pulls the snippet by description, not by a code you half recall.

The library you already built somewhere else

Years of aText or TextExpander snippets do not have to be retyped. Import the library and keep going, which is the difference between trying a tool and actually switching to one.

Privacy

Everything you type is the most sensitive data you have.

A text expander sits between your keyboard and everything you write: passwords you paste, client names, medical details, the message you have not sent yet. The only honest architecture for that is one where the data stays on your Mac unless you choose otherwise.

Your libraries live on your Mac

Snippets and clipboard history are local-first, and everything works with no account and nothing to sign in to. Signing in is one deliberate choice, and all it does is sync your snippet library between your own Macs; your clipboard history stays on the machine that captured it either way.

Sync is opt-in, and off until you ask

Nothing leaves your Mac until you sign in and turn on Mac-to-Mac sync, which is a deliberate order rather than an oversight: sync means a copy somewhere else, and that is not a trade to make on your behalf for the contents of a clipboard. Leave it off and there is no account, no server, and no copy. Turn it on and your snippet library, and only that, travels to your own account.

The AI is yours, not ours

The transforms use an AI provider and key you configure. Nothing routes through a vendor account, so there is no shared pipe your text passes through and no plan of ours that has ever seen it.

This website is not the app

One honest footnote: this marketing page uses privacy-first analytics, and only after you press Accept on the banner. The app you install carries none of that. Choosing "Essential only" means nothing is ever sent.

The MCP server is local too

Claude Desktop searches your library through a server running on your own machine. Your snippets are readable by the assistant you chose, on the computer they already live on.

Works with your AI

Ask Claude to find the snippet, not you.

TypeValet ships a local MCP server so Claude Desktop can search your library and pull the exact snippet you mean, by description, not by remembering a shortcut.

Claude Local by design · not ChatGPT/Grok

Zero-dependency local stdio server. It reads one file on your Mac and never opens a network socket, on purpose, since some snippets carry personally identifiable information (PII).

Try asking Claude

“Find my out-of-office snippet and give me the full text.”

search_snippets() finds it, get_snippet() returns the full text, ready to paste.

Pricing

Free does the whole job; Pro adds the studio layer on top.

Everything you need every day is free forever. Pro adds the studio layer, once, for keeps.

Free

Forever. The reliable core.

Race-proof text expansion
Secure Input sentinel
Fill-in / interactive fields
Clipboard restore + snippet search
aText + TextExpander import

Download free

Pro

$69 $39 once

Intro price through August 31, then $69. One-time, owned forever, no subscription, and every update to this version is included.

Everything in Free
AI transforms, driven by your fields (your key)
Advanced macros
Free updates within the version you own

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$39 through August 31, 2026. The regular price is $69.

Bought Pro through an earlier release? Activate in the app: Settings → Pro.

About one year of TextExpander Individual ($39.96/yr), and yours to keep every year after.

Install & updates

Download once. It keeps itself current.

A signed, notarized Mac app you install directly, the way a tool with this much access should be. Every update after the first installs automatically in the background.

Get the app

Download the notarized disk image and drag TypeValet to Applications. Developer ID signed; macOS 15 and later, Apple silicon.

Grant one permission

TypeValet walks you straight to the Accessibility toggle it needs to type for you, then verifies it, no hunting through settings.

Stay current, automatically

New versions install themselves over TypeValet's own secure update feed. You never re-download a thing.

Download for Mac

Free forever, no account required. See what Pro adds →

Questions

Frequently asked questions

The short answers, pulled straight from what is on this page.

What is TypeValet?+

TypeValet is a Mac text expander, a clipboard manager, and AI text transforms combined in one Mac app. It types your snippets in every app on your Mac, from Mail to Slack to browsers, editors, and terminals.

How much does TypeValet cost?+

The core app is free forever: race-proof text expansion, the Secure Input sentinel, fill-in fields, the clipboard manager and snippet search, and aText plus TextExpander import. Pro is a one-time purchase of $69, currently $39 through August 31, 2026. There is no subscription; Pro is yours to keep, and every update to this version of TypeValet is included.

Is my data private?+

Yes. TypeValet stores your snippet libraries local-first on your own Mac. Your snippets leave it only if you sign in with your Epiphani account and turn on library sync, and then they travel over HTTPS to your own account and nowhere else, keeping every Mac you sign in to current. Any device can be signed out remotely. The iPhone app sends anonymous usage counts showing which features are opened and where a flow is abandoned, so the app improves where people get stuck. It sends only a fixed list of feature names, never your snippets, your searches, or your email, and one switch in Settings turns it off. AI transforms use your own key for any of 12 providers, or a local model, so nothing is metered. The Claude MCP server is a zero-dependency local stdio server: it reads one file on your Mac and never opens a network socket, because some snippets carry personal information.

Can I bring over my TextExpander or aText library?+

Yes. TypeValet imports your existing aText or TextExpander library in one click, so you can start typing right away without rebuilding your snippets from scratch.

What makes TypeValet's clipboard restore more reliable than other expanders?+

Most Mac expanders put your text on the clipboard, press paste, then guess what to restore, and on a busy Mac another app can write to the clipboard in that split second so your copied text vanishes. TypeValet records the clipboard's exact state and restores it only when nothing else has touched it, and it keeps a clipboard history (500 items, in memory only) so a busy Mac cannot make your copy vanish either way.

Does TypeValet work with Claude?+

Yes. TypeValet ships a local MCP server so Claude Desktop can search your snippet library and pull the exact one you mean by description, using search_snippets and get_snippet, instead of you needing to remember a shortcut.

Which AI can TypeValet use?+

Almost any of them. TypeValet supports two protocols: Anthropic's, and the OpenAI-compatible protocol also used by OpenAI, Gemini, Perplexity, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, DeepSeek, and xAI. Pick from 12 built-in providers, use any OpenAI-compatible server you run, or go fully local with Ollama or LM Studio, no key needed. TypeValet probes your provider and picks its newest flagship model, and you can pin an exact model id.

What Mac do I need to run TypeValet?+

TypeValet needs macOS 15 or later, on Apple silicon. It ships as a Developer ID signed, notarized disk image, and after the first install, new versions install themselves automatically over TypeValet's own update feed.

The typing command center that verifies, never guesses.

Every other expander swaps your clipboard and hopes.

The race-proof engine

The Secure Input sentinel

Transforms that write with you

Snippets that know the date, the clipboard, and the blanks.

One engine for everything you type.

Snippet search

Dynamic fields and tokens

AI transforms, your key

Cross-machine library

Everything you copied, one keystroke away

The snippets you actually use

TypeValet vs. the field

The same 40 keystrokes, 11 times a day.

The reply you have written 100 times

The address, the license key, the tax number

The thing you copied, then lost

The template with three blanks in it

The snippet you cannot remember the shortcut for

The library you already built somewhere else

Everything you type is the most sensitive data you have.

Your libraries live on your Mac

Sync is opt-in, and off until you ask

The AI is yours, not ours

This website is not the app

The MCP server is local too

Ask Claude to find the snippet, not you.

Free does the whole job; Pro adds the studio layer on top.

Free

Pro

Download once. It keeps itself current.

Get the app

Grant one permission

Stay current, automatically

Frequently asked questions

Expansions verified before they land. A clipboard restore engine tested to zero data loss. Yours, forever.