A cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

Visit the espanso website.

A text expander is a program that detects when you type a specific keyword and replaces it with something else. This is useful in many ways:

• Save a lot of typing, expanding common sentences.
• Create system-wide code snippets.
• Execute custom scripts
• Use emojis like a pro.

• Works on Windows, macOS and Linux
• Works with almost any program
• Works with Emojis 😄
• Works with Images
• Includes a powerful Search Bar 🔎
• Date expansion support
• Custom scripts support
• Shell commands support
• App-specific configurations
• Support Forms
• Expandable with packages
• Built-in package manager for espanso hub
• File based configuration
• Support Regex triggers
• Experimental Wayland support

Visit the official documentation.

If you need some help to setup espanso, want to ask a question or simply get involved in the community, Join the official Subreddit! :)

espanso is a free, open source software developed in my (little) spare time. If you liked the project and would like to support further development, please consider making a small donation, it really helps :)

Many people helped the project along the way, thank you to all of you!

• Thanks to libxdo and xclip, used to implement the Linux port.
• Thanks to libxkbcommon and wl-clipboard, used to implement the Wayland port.
• Thanks to wxWidgets for providing a powerful cross-platform GUI library.

espanso was created by Federico Terzi and is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license.