Best alternatives to Snippety in 2026

Anyone who types the same sentences, email replies, or code blocks over and over eventually starts abbreviating them by hand. Text expanders automate that: you type a short trigger like ";addr" and it instantly becomes your full mailing address, a canned support reply, or a boilerplate code snippet. Snippety does that on Mac and iPhone, but goes further than a simple find-and-replace tool by letting those snippets contain logic — dates, clipboard contents, form fields you fill in on the fly, and conditional sections that change based on what you input. Under the hood it's a native macOS/iOS app (not an Electron wrapper) with syntax highlighting for 50+ programming languages, the ability to run shell scripts as part of a snippet expansion, a command-line interface for scripting your own workflows, and native Shortcuts/Siri integration. Sync happens through the user's own iCloud account rather than a third-party server, and per-app rules mean a developer can have different snippets available in a code editor than in an email client. It's a one-developer, closed-source product (by Wojciech Kulik) rated 4.8/5 across over a thousand App Store reviews, with a single purchase — monthly or lifetime — unlocking all devices tied to the same Apple ID.