# Type Valet: the typing command center for Mac

Type Valet, by Epiphani Studios, is a Mac text expander + clipboard manager + AI transforms
in one menu-bar app, built on a reliability engine the category lacks. Free core; $69 once,
owned forever, no subscription. Runs on Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later.

## What it does (mechanism, not adjectives)

- Race-proof expansion: other expanders swap your clipboard to paste and then guess at
  restoring it, so a busy Mac can eat what you copied. Type Valet records the clipboard's exact
  state and restores it only when verified untouched, never guessed.
- Secure Input sentinel: when macOS blocks expansion (password fields, Secure Input), Type Valet
  detects it and SAYS so instead of failing silently.
- Snippet search: type :: or ;; after a space, or press the shortcut, to search the whole library and insert with Return. Openers are editable; a group can claim its own.
- Clipboard history, and it is a real one: a watcher polling twice a second records
  everything you copy, and Cmd+Shift+V opens a searchable palette with pinning, age grouping
  and the source app per row. Pictures too, with thumbnails: copy a screenshot and it is still
  there. Holds 500 text clips. A password out of 1Password is never recorded and never read,
  because the pasteboard's do-not-record markers are checked before any bytes are.
- Your own usage analytics: Settings > Usage shows which snippets you actually use by week,
  month, year and all time. The counts stay on the Mac; nothing is sent anywhere.
- Fill-in fields; per-app reliability across Mail, Slack, browsers, editors, and terminals.
- AI transforms with ANY AI: bring your own key/provider; rewrites happen on your terms.
- Local-first libraries; import your aText or TextExpander library in a click.
- Your team's emoji anywhere: import the custom emoji a team already uses in Slack and paste
  them into any app that accepts images. Measured 2026-07-28: the emoji CDN serves anonymously,
  so imported packs render outside the original workspace.
- Works with your AI: the bundled MCP server gives Claude and other assistants these tools: `status`,
  `search_snippets`, `get_snippet`, `list_snippets`, `list_groups`, `add_snippet`, `upsert_snippet`,
  `delete_snippet` and `compose_prompt`. Writes go through the running app.
- Opt-in cloud sync: sign in with an Epiphani account and your library syncs across your own
  devices. The app is fully usable signed out.

## Pricing (public, complete)

- Free core. Full app $69 once, owned forever, no subscription. Every update to this version of Type Valet is included.
- Comparison, verified 2026-07-27 from each vendor's own page: TextExpander ~$40/year and
  Text Blaze ~$36/year are subscriptions; Typinator is $49.99 one-time (Mac only, its mobile
  app requires the $29.99/year plan); aText $29.99 lifetime, no iOS; Rocket Typist $19.99 Mac
  plus $9.99 iOS sold separately. Type Valet is a one-time purchase in a set that is
  mostly subscriptions.

## More

- Home: https://typevalet.com/
- Download the disk image: https://typevalet.com/download (latest version as JSON: https://typevalet.com/download/latest.json)
- Full capability inventory: https://typevalet.com/capabilities/