SprintText for Mac
The same shortcuts, everywhere on your Mac.
A keyboard extension can only help inside a keyboard. On the Mac, SprintText works at the system level instead: your triggers expand in Mail, Slack, your editor, a terminal, a browser field — anywhere you can type.
The command palette
Select text. Press a shortcut. Choose an action.
The Mac app adds a palette over whatever you are working in: your shortcut library, plus the AI actions, applied to the text you have selected.
Search shortcuts and actions…
Rewrite selection in my voiceAI
Shorten selectionAI
Insert signature;;sig
Insert today’s date{date}
- System-wide expansion, working today. Triggers fire in any app that takes text, using the same library as your iPhone. Verified in TextEdit: a trigger followed by a space, followed by punctuation, and mid-sentence.
- One palette, two kinds of thing. Shortcuts to insert, and AI actions to apply. Both reachable from the same keystroke — though the AI half is not yet verified.
- Keyboard-first. The palette is designed to be opened, driven and dismissed without your hands leaving the keyboard.
- The same Brain. With sync on, what you taught SprintText on your phone is what it knows on your Mac — encrypted on the device, with a key that reaches the Mac through iCloud Keychain rather than through our server.
Why a separate app
Different platform, different mechanism.
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iOS gives you a keyboard slot
On iPhone and iPad, a third-party keyboard is the only way in. That is a good fit: it puts shortcuts, the suggestion bar and prediction exactly where your thumbs are.
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macOS gives you the whole system
On the Mac there is no keyboard to replace — you already have a good one. So SprintText sits behind it, watching for triggers and offering a palette on demand.
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One library, two shapes
The shortcuts, the Brain and the settings are the same thing on both platforms. Only the way you reach them differs.
Questions
About the Mac app.
When will the Mac app be available?
We are not giving a date we might miss. Expansion and sync work; the app has not been released. The availability section on the home page is updated as things change.
Will it need accessibility permissions?
Yes. System-wide text expansion on macOS requires the app to be allowed to observe and post keyboard events, which macOS gates behind an explicit permission you grant in System Settings. It is requested when you first turn expansion on, with an explanation of what it is for.
Is the Mac app free, or is it part of Pro?
Both, the same way as on iPhone. The free version holds ten shortcuts and does not sync. SprintText Pro removes the limit and adds sync, and one Pro subscription covers your iPhone, iPad and Mac rather than charging per platform. You subscribe in the iPhone app, because that is where the App Store sells it, then sign in on your Mac with the same account and it unlocks on its own. See pricing for the current plans.