$30/month? I had to google to find this out as there is no real info on their website. @anon85228692 have you tried this email app?
It’s $10 a month if you work in Education. For me, it’s worth it because it saves a lot of time. As an estimate, I get through my email in half the time compared to when I used Mail.
It’s Gmail only, which I’m not using anymore, so it’s a non-starter for me. 
Also, despite being willing to pay for quality apps, I have a hard time believing that an email client could be worth that much.
The education price (10/month) made sense to me as it replaces SaneBox and TE (which cost that combined).
If you’re not in education, I’d say the price is too much unless you live in email and would really save a lot of time. It’s pitched for CEOs and business people who can write off the cost as an expense, not average users.
They are an incredible company. For example, on my first day using it I reported that there was an issue with the Spanish iPad keyboard (a shortcut not working). The next day they sent an invite to TestFlight with the issue fixed and in the next version released on the App Store the fix was applied. I’ve never had customer service that good, especially from an email app developer.
They are strictly gmail only as it is all built around that service.
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Can you share how you did this?? Im thinking this is the way for me too.
- I deleted all the snippets I had not been using to eliminate unnecessary work.
- I exported the remaining snippets using the web interface at TextExpander.com
- I used a PHP script to migrate the TE snippets to Alfred snippet. For some reason I am not able to find the script again.
- I had to do some work in Alfred to get variables for time and date and stuff like that working in Alfred. So it was no fully automated process.
While looking for the script, I found this though (I was not aware about that before):
@dfay has built something that migrates snippets from TextExpander to Alfred using AppleScript.
What are the differences between using Alfred or KM for text expansion? Why would you choose one over the other?
Thanks everyone that posted to this thread.
This is the first I have heard anybody having this problem besides me. And I have been having it for weeks and weeks if not months. I got so aggravated that I started typing nasty notes into the bug reporting box/tool.
I am going to go cancel my subscription and start migrating to another tool. Thanks for your suggestions.
[update]
Done
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what the heck is up with your subscription? why does it keep going up like that?
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So now with version 6.8.5, everytime you launch a fill-in snippet, the damn main TextExpander window opens too. Maybe we should be hoping Smile sells TextExpander also.
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When reading this thread I can’t help but thinking “thanks to our great friends at Smile”.
OTOH, I used TE myself long ago, and back then it worked fine. Moved over to aText (mainly because of price) and never looked back. Advantage of aText and (I assume) Typinator over Alfred is that you can have snippets per application.
I guess they just haven’t managed yet. They are obviously on the way out.
Yes - you are correct: Typinator provides for that.
Stephen
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I’m pleased I found this thread. I have just cancelled by TE subscription and gone to aText which looks like it does the job fine.
As well as the problems with TE crashing, I have had issues with a snippet that contained an AppleScript to get current IP - sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. Probably related?
My problems started when I got my M1 MacBook but happen on both M1 and Intel iMac. Possibly there was a rewrite for Silicon which went wrong?
I just went through the process of downloading the Typinator trial, and exporting my TE snippets over, to have a go.
Typinator is almost there for me – but unfortunately (and quite understandably), some of my more complex TE macros – that have many inline text additions around dropdown/fill-in’s and the like – didn’t make the transition cleanly. To be clear: this is not a criticism of Typinator, just making the point that whereas 90% of it seemed to transfer neatly, the more heavyweight macros did not.
Based on my TE account, think I am due the next annual payment sometime in October. I will hopefully find the time between then and now, to get those bigger snippets working.
Oh – and for my part – TE has been getting incredibly laggy of late. Not entirely sure what is running interference, but frequently have quite a few seconds between a trigger being initiated, and the snippet being expanded – which obviously defeats much of the purpose of text expansion in the first place, if I am losing seconds each time I expand certain snippets, waiting for TE to catch up…
It is really annoying. Guess time will tell regarding whether it is annoying enough…
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Yes, you sort of have to redo your fill in macros in Typinator, but I think it can do everything TE does. (Of course, it’s up to you to see if it’s worth the hassle depending on how many you have)
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seeing lots of tweets the past two days about TextExpander crashing and not expanding snippets as expected. I hope the best TE coder wasn’t also on the PDFPen team…
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Oh thank god I saw this thread. I thought I was going crazy. So frustrating, but thank you all for the suggestion of clicking on the dock icon when the pop up window wasn’t showing up. I am going to give them some more time before jumping, but I am going to continue watching this thread.
For better or worse, my history is to cut a company a lot of slack IF they are communicating with their users. If not, then I have to do what’s right for me.
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If Smile was any kind of organized company, they would be communicating with their users. Can they tweet that they acknowledge the issues and are working on them? No, here are some of their latest “textexpander” tweets
Smile seem to be a tone-deaf company. It’s weird. They’ve been around forever, and you their software isn’t great. They spend a bucketload on marketing, but their social media marketing is hopeless. Their software is ugly but has filled niches for a long time.
Now they sell PDF Pen, which either means they are going to focus more on TextExpander, or try to sell it too and close up shop.
They’re an enigma of a software house.
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