In addition, current users of TextExpander get a 50 percent “loyalty discount” for the first year of their subscriptions, and those who purchased the previous version of TextExpander after 1 December 2015 are eligible for 3 months free under the Life Hacker plan. Again, if you prefer monthly billing, it’s $9.95 per user per month ($119.40 per year). If you prefer monthly billing, it’s $4.95 per month ($59.40 per year).Ī Team plan for organizations that costs $7.96 per user per month, billed annually ($95.52 per year). A single-user Life Hacker plan that costs $3.96 per month, billed annually ($47.52 per year).We’re really excited about what this change will allow us to offer our customers, and we hope you are too.Īs mentioned above, the accounts come in two types: We can deliver incremental improvements as they’re ready rather than wait and package them all into a new “big” upgrade release. It also frees you as customers and us as developers from the “upgrade treadmill.” We can offer our apps free of charge. This lines up with the regular costs to provide an online service. Instead of license purchases and upgrades on an irregular schedule, we’ve switched to a subscription model where you pay monthly or annually for your TextExpander service. We’ve updated our pricing model to match our new service. Subscription Plans - Why is Smile moving to a subscription mode? Smile founder Greg Scown explains: The editor is available both in the TextExpander app and on the site, with almost identical functionality. Plus, the TextExpander snippet editor has been revised to make snippet editing easier, adding a toolbar that offers various snippet customization options. (One tip: sharing snippets requires some communication ahead of time, since you and your colleagues need to agree on abbreviation conventions.) Shared snippets are probably even more valuable in customer support teams, where they’ll save time and standardize tone and writing quality. For team accounts, provides shared snippets and snippet management features tailored to organizations, making it possible, for example, for the vast TidBITS and Take Control media conglomerate to establish groups of shared TextExpander snippets for use by authors and editors. In addition to TextExpander subscriptions for individual users, Smile also offers team subscriptions to TextExpander. Users can organize, edit, delete, and add snippets through the Web app, as well as through the apps on their devices, and they can share them, with varying levels of permissions, with other TextExpander users. The site, however, offers not just a syncing service, but a full-blown snippet management system. Snippet data is encrypted end-to-end as it traverses the Internet, and while the servers do not encrypt the stored snippet data on a per-user basis, server access itself is secured using both passwords and two-factor authentication. New Syncing Features - With this latest release, TextExpander users now sync their snippets among their devices via the servers at Smile’s site instead of using services such as Dropbox and iCloud.
New users can try out the apps for 30 days before having to purchase a subscription. Currently available for download, the latest versions of the apps themselves are free, but now require a paid subscription account at the newly created. Smile (a longtime TidBITS sponsor) has released the latest versions of its text expansion utility, TextExpander 6 for Mac, TextExpander 4 for iPhone and iPad, and even a beta of TextExpander for Windows. TextExpander 6 Adds Teams and Subscription Billing #1624: Important OS security updates, rescuing QuickTake 150 photos, AirTag alerts while traveling.
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