TapIt4Me brings snippet expansion to the iPhone

One of the first things I install on a new Mac is a snippet expander, one of those extremely handy utilities that automatically expands typed abbreviations to longer text strings (TextExpander, in my case). So, for instance, you can have a standard email sign off triggered with just a couple of letters. Given the extra challenge of typing on the iPhone keyboard, a snippet expander seems like a perfect addition to the App Store, and sure enough one has now appeared from the developer of the long-time Mac snippet expander TypeIt4Me (whose earliest versions even pre-date OS X).

TapIt4Me (iTunes link) brings snippet expansion to mail and notes on the iPhone. You can even import your pre-existing snippets files from both TypeIt4Me and TextExpander. Unfortunately, it will not work in other applications like Safari, SMS, etc. You actually compose your emails in the TapIt4Me application and then it sends them to the iPhone's email app. Admittedly it's a little clunky, but getting snippets on the iPhone may just be worth the extra hassle.

TapIt4Me (iTunes link) is available from the iTunes store for $4.99.

[via Macworld]
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