Use TextExpander touch

When you hit the road armed with your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you don’t have to leave TextExpander behind. An iOS app from Smile, TextExpander touch, is available from the iTunes App Store for $4.99. The app provides much of the capability of the Mac application, but with its features tailored for the iOS fingertip environment.

Naturally, the app can’t do everything that the Mac version can do: just as an iOS device doesn’t replicate all the capabilities of a traditional computer, the iOS version of TextExpander doesn’t replicate all the capabilities of its Mac sibling. But it can do a lot, and, with Apple’s addition of custom third-party keyboards in recent versions of iOS, you can expand your snippets in almost ...

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