PhraseExpress

Overall Opinion: We have tried many text expanders for use in our customer service and the power and flexibility of "PhraseExpress" convinced us. It is easy to set up and offfers many features we couldnt find in any text expander, such as the phrase menus that can be placed on the desktop. The SQL server support allows us to associate templates to specific work groups. The admin can also configure all remote client installation with a single key press. This alone is amazing. Support is very responsive and answered our questions promptly. I strongly recommend to try it out.

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Overall Opinion: While text expanders aren't one of the most well known varieties of applications available, they serve as a valuable tool for anyone who regularly uses their computer's keyboard in a professional or personal capacity. The goal of PhraseExpress is to increase the efficiency of a user's typing, in much the same way that Android and Apple mobile devices rely on autocomplete, Swype, and predictive text functions. Fundamentally, PhraseExpress is the application that will know what you're thinking before you do. With PhraseExpress installed on your computer, you'll have to spend less time typing out commonly used words and phrases and can instead let your computer finish your sentences for you. At its most basic level, it lets you create snippets that you know you commonly use in speech. Whether this is for commonly used form letters or just typical turns of phrase, PhraseExpress will remember these macros and automatically complete them. But PhraseExpress sets itself apart from the pack through its ability to learn as you type. The more you type, the more PhraseExpress will start to understand your style of writing, and it will eventually develop its own snippets, offering you the most likely options to finish your text. It also supports a vast library and intuitively offers you corrections to likely misspelled words. In addition to these standard functions, there's a lot going on underneath the hood of the PhraseExpress suite. Customizability is key here, and for the power user, they'll find a lot of cool options to tinker around with. Boilerplate templates allow you to plug form letters into any program that runs on your Windows machine, and canned responses are available for anyone in your network. These can include specific formatting like fonts and coloring in addition to standard text and are great for automating the more tedious tasks of social and business affairs. You can also set PhraseExpress to automatically expand abbreviations into full names, letting you essentially set macros for complex names and terminology. Even cooler is the option to open programs and open folders through the use of text snippets. You'll no longer have to sort through your entire app list to find the program you're looking for. All of this is handled through the Universal Text Snippet Manager. This is where you set the phrases you want altered, create templates to be cut and pasted, and assign macros for navigating folders and programs. The ability to sort these into categories is a huge advantage, particularly as you start to incorporate larger and more varied snippets into the database. Conveniently, PhraseExpress' functions can be used in any Windows program you can imagine. It's an ideal choice for coders who can make use of the program to quickly write out blocks of commonly used code without having to worry about errors. Cloud synchronization allows you to easily share phrases anywhere in your workspace.

Pros: Completely free of charge to non-professional users Offers one of the deepest and most expansive feature sets in the industry Predictive learning means you won't have to spend ages entering snippets into the database

Cons: The wealth of features can be overwhelming and hard to discover Long snippets require the use of the clipboard function