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 nothing is ever lost either way.

Free · shipping

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 exact failure that made aText drop text under a busy Mac.

Free · shipping

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.

The workspace

Eight capabilities. Built where they're live, mocked up where they're not.

The typing command center, for one one-time price under a single year of the subscription tools it replaces. Real captures below carry no tag, because what you see is the private build. Previews are labeled plainly and never dressed up as shipped.

Free · shipping

One engine, not two apps

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.

Live today, build 64, Jason's daily driver: 500 of 500 correct under realistic clipboard contention, zero clobbers under 200 times pathological load. Public v0.1 is live: download it free below.

Free · shipping

The Cartwall

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

TypeValet's Cartwall: search across 16 snippets grouped by project, with pinned favorites and a live fill-in preview pane

Live now (⌘⇧Space, build 8). The screen above is a real capture of build 64's own Cartwall, not a mockup.

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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

Live now (build 12 through 16). The screen above is the real three-pane Snippet Library editor, not a mockup.

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

Live now (build 13 through 14, nine transform types, off by default). The screen above is a real ⌘⇧T grab against a real selection; the rewrite-pasted-back half needed a provisioned API key we did not spend on for this capture.

Free · shipping

Ask Claude to find your snippet

Claude Desktop searches your whole library and pulls the exact line by description, not by a shortcut you have to remember.

Claude Desktop finding a TypeValet snippet by description, beside a terminal showing the local stdio MCP connection and its two tools

Claude Desktop finding a TypeValet snippet, dark theme

Product preview: composited from real tool output

The MCP server, its two tools, and the stdio-only transport are live and shipped today. A live cross-app capture is not one clean screenshot, so this frame composites a real Claude Desktop chat with the server's real tool names.

Pro

Cross-machine library

Your Cartwall and 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

Live now for Mac-to-Mac (build 63: tombstones plus last-write-wins merge). Windows and iOS stay unbuilt, long-term roadmap only.

Preview · unbuilt

Team libraries and capture anything

Team libraries

One person curates the Cartwall; the whole support queue inherits it, with no enterprise approval workflow to sit through.

Capture anything

A screenshot or a pasted image becomes searchable text, with a quick transform menu firing the moment you paste.

Team libraries and capture-anything cards, dark theme

Product preview: shipping to Pro members

Both are unbuilt today, shown in Settings only as Pro wayfinding.

The honest split What's live today vs. what's still on the build list

The Cartwall, dynamic fields, AI transforms, and Mac-to-Mac sync run on the real build shown above, not staged for this page. The Ask Claude flow is live and shipped even though its screen is a composite. Team libraries and capture anything are unbuilt: Pro wayfinding only, for now.

See pricing →

A look inside · preview

Set once. Press anywhere.

The galley is the typesetter's tray of composed, ready-to-press text. TypeValet keeps yours the same way: organized, searchable, and one keystroke from the page.

The Cartwall · ⌘⇧Space

⌕Search galleys, press ↵ to paste…

nda/

Mutual NDA intro & terms

meet/

Propose 3 times to meet

thanks/

Warm thank-you note

cs/

Support: we're on it

follow/

Gentle follow-up

addr/

Mailing address

Edit galley · follow/

Trigger

follow/

Content

Hi {{First name}}, following up on {{topic}}. {{AI: match my warm tone}}

Delivery

Auto: keystrokes for short text, verified paste for long · local-first

Menu bar

◉TypeValet

⚠️Expansions paused. 1Password is holding Secure Input. Quit or leave that field and typing resumes automatically.

✓ Clipboard restore verified · 0 lost this session

Preview mockups of the v0.1 interface, shown with example data. Real screens replace these as the Mac app ships.

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	✗	✗	weak point	buggy	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 storage, nothing on a server	Only one	cloud	manual	local	manual	✗
One-time price, no subscription	✓	✗ sub	✓	✓	free	freemium
One-click import from aText + TextExpander	✓	n/a	—	partial	partial	✗
Shared team libraries and admin (they win)	✗ none, by design	✓ full	✗	✗	manual	✗
Runs on Windows or Linux (they win)	✗ macOS only	✓	✗	✗	✓ both	✗
Syncs between your own machines (they win)	✗ local-first, so no	✓	manual	manual	manual	via Raycast account
Design and brand craft	✓✓	ok	dated	✓	CLI	✓✓

Rows marked (they win) are ones TypeValet loses outright, and they are here because a comparison that never loses is one nobody should believe. Only one = a capability no other tool here combines · ✓✓ best-in-class · ✓ full · partial · ✗ absent. Competitor facts from published pricing and docs, mid-2026.

Where the minutes go

The same forty keystrokes, eleven 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 a hundred times

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

The address, the licence 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 never drops an entry 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 has nowhere to go.

Your libraries live on your Mac

Snippets and clipboard history are local-first. There is no account to create, nothing to sign in to, and no server holding your library, because there is no server in this product at all.

No cloud sync, by design

This is a deliberate limit rather than a feature we have not got to. Sync means a copy somewhere else, and for the contents of a clipboard that is a trade we did not want to make on your behalf.

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.

Where it is the wrong tool

What it does not do, said before you install it.

The capabilities page states a limit wherever one exists. These are the ones most likely to matter before you spend an afternoon setting up a library.

macOS only

It runs on current macOS. There is no Windows version and no iOS version. If you type on a PC for most of the day, this is not the tool, and no roadmap language should suggest otherwise.

No team libraries

There is no shared snippet infrastructure and no admin console. A team that needs one library across ten people is honestly better served elsewhere, and we would rather say so than sell you a workaround.

No sync between your own machines

The same decision that keeps your clipboard off a server also means a snippet made on the laptop is not on the desktop. That is the cost of local-first and it is a real one.

You bring the AI

The transforms need a key and a provider you supply. There is no included allowance, which keeps your text out of any account of ours but does mean the AI features are not zero-setup.

Pricing

Free does the whole job. Pro does more.

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

Free

Forever. The reliable core.

Race-proof text expansion
Secure Input sentinel
Fill-in / interactive fields
Clipboard manager + the Cartwall palette
aText + TextExpander import

Download free

Pro

$39 once

One-time. Owned forever. No subscription.

Everything in Free
AI transforms, driven by your fields (your key)
Local-first shared & team libraries
Advanced macros & unlimited clipboard history
Free updates within the version you own

Get Pro → $39

Founding price: $29 for the first 500 buyers →

Already bought? Activate in the app: Settings → Pro.

Less than one year of a subscription expander, and it is yours to keep.

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 arrives quietly in the background.

Get the app

Download the notarized disk image and drag TypeValet to Applications. Developer ID signed; macOS 13 and later.

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, silently

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 quiet 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 Cartwall palette, and aText plus TextExpander import. Pro is a one-time purchase of $39. There is no subscription; Pro is yours to keep.

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 twelve 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 full clipboard history so nothing is lost 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 the two protocols that cover the market: Anthropic's and the OpenAI-compatible protocol used by OpenAI, Gemini, Perplexity, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, DeepSeek, and xAI. Pick from twelve 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 13 or later. It ships as a Developer ID signed, notarized disk image, and after the first install, new versions install themselves quietly over TypeValet's own update feed.

Every other expander swaps your clipboard and hopes.

The race-proof engine

The Secure Input sentinel

Transforms that write with you

Eight capabilities. Built where they're live, mocked up where they're not.

One engine, not two apps

The Cartwall

Dynamic fields and tokens

AI transforms, your key

Ask Claude to find your snippet

Cross-machine library

Team libraries and capture anything

Team libraries

Capture anything

Set once. Press anywhere.

TypeValet vs. the field

The same forty keystrokes, eleven times a day.

The reply you have written a hundred times

The address, the licence 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

No cloud sync, by design

The AI is yours, not ours

This website is not the app

The MCP server is local too

What it does not do, said before you install it.

macOS only

No team libraries

No sync between your own machines

You bring the AI

Ask Claude to find the snippet, not you.

Free does the whole job. Pro does more.

Free

Pro

Download once. It keeps itself current.

Get the app

Grant one permission

Stay current, silently

Frequently asked questions

Expansions that always fire. A clipboard that never loses. Yours, forever.