A text expander, a clipboard that never loses, and transforms that write with you: one quiet Mac app. Built on a reliability engine no other expander ships. Yours forever, no subscription.
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. Text Galley 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.
Your clipboard is checked before it is put back. If another app wrote to it mid-paste, Text Galley keeps theirs and logs the moment, instead of overwriting it. This is the exact failure that made aText drop text under a busy Mac.
When a password field or another app locks input, every expander goes silent, with no explanation. Text Galley notices, and names the app that is holding the lock in your menu bar, so you are never left wondering why nothing fired.
A snippet field can rewrite the tone, translate, or turn what's on your clipboard into a reply, filled by the same interactive fields you already use. Bring your own Claude or OpenAI key; nothing is metered, nothing routes through us. Offline, fields fall back to plain placeholders.
The galley is the typesetter's tray of composed, ready-to-press text. Text Galley keeps yours the same way: organized, searchable, and one keystroke from the page.
Preview mockups of the v0.1 interface, shown with example data. Real screens replace these as the Mac app ships.
Expanders, clipboard managers, and AI snippet tools each do part of the job. Text Galley is the one that combines them and engineers the reliability underneath. The rows in bold are things no competitor combines.
| Capability that matters | Text Galley | 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 + managed team libraries | Only one | cloud | manual | no teams | manual | ✗ |
| One-time price, no subscription | ✓ | ✗ sub | ✓ | ✓ | free | freemium |
| One-click import from aText + TextExpander | ✓ | n/a | — | partial | partial | ✗ |
| Design and brand craft | ✓✓ | ok | dated | ✓ | CLI | ✓✓ |
Only one = a capability no other tool here combines · ✓✓ best-in-class · ✓ full · partial · ✗ absent. Competitor facts from published pricing and docs, mid-2026.
Everything you need every day is free forever. Pro adds the studio and team layer, once, for keeps.
Less than one year of a subscription expander. Owned forever, not rented.
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.
Download the notarized disk image and drag Text Galley to Applications. Developer ID signed; macOS 13 and later.
Text Galley walks you straight to the Accessibility toggle it needs to type for you, then verifies it, no hunting through settings.
New versions install themselves over Text Galley's own secure update feed. You never re-download a thing.
In private testing now. Get notified when v0.1 opens.
One quiet Mac app for the text you type all day, built on reliability nobody else ships, with your words kept on your own machine.
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