--- title: "TypeIt4Me Touch - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store" description: "TypeIt4Me Touch is a simple notepad app with built-in text expansion for swiftly composing notes and messages. Define your own custom shorthand abbreviations and they’ll instantly be replaced as you t" --- # TypeIt4Me Touch — United States > Notepad with text expansion ![TypeIt4Me Touch App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/98/9e/cb/989ecb39-cfc9-d0c2-5f75-e2ca5816256f/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png) **Developer:** [Riccardo Ettore](https://apptail.io/developer/riccardo-ettore-WoE) **Category:** Productivity **Rating:** 3.6/5 (11 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** com.ettoresoftware.TapIt4Me **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** United States **Version:** 3.5.16 (released 2025-10-03) **Original Release:** 2009-01-17 **Languages:** English **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id300973416) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/typeit4me-touch-kasb/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/typeit4me-touch-kasb/united-states) ## TypeIt4Me Touch Description TypeIt4Me Touch is a simple notepad app with built-in text expansion for swiftly composing notes and messages. Define your own custom shorthand abbreviations and they’ll instantly be replaced as you type with the longer texts they represent, saving you time and effort. Create and store snippet abbreviations on your iPhone or iPad and gradually build up your own custom shorthand library for quickly jotting things down. Store as many notes as you like to use and reuse later. These can be emailed, messaged and shared straight from within the app, or copied to the clipboard in a couple of taps. Install the bundled TypeIt4Me Touch keyboard extension and quickly bring it up in any app to access long snippets of frequently used text. Addresses, email signatures and boilerplate paragraphs stored locally or in iCloud will always be right at your fingertips. Use them in Mail, Safari, Messages or anywhere else you can type. (NB: the keyboard extension is for on-screen typing only. Bluetooth hardware support is limited to composing notes in the app itself.) Ever wished you could use your Mac TypeIt4Me abbreviations in iOS? This is the app for you. If you use TypeIt4Me 6 (or TypeIt4Me 5.4.x from the Mac App Store) and you keep your abbreviations in iCloud, you can use them on your iPhone and iPad. They will be available in the TypeIt4Me Touch app and keyboard as long as you’re signed in to iCloud. You can also add new snippets and sync them across all your Macs and iDevices. If you’re still using TypeIt4Me 5.5.3 (or earlier versions for Mac) downloaded directly from the Ettore Software website, automatic iCloud syncing of your abbreviations between Mac and iOS is not available. However, you can still use snippets created on your Mac. Just email your Mac TypeIt4Me snippet set files to yourself and open the attachments in TypeIt4Me Touch on your iPhone or iPad to import your abbreviations. With TypeIt4Me Touch installed on your iPhone or iPad, greetings, common phrases, boilerplate texts, URLs or even large chunks of programming code can all be just a couple of prods away. Enjoy :) ## TypeIt4Me Touch Screenshots - [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple114/v4/85/6c/70/856c70ef-05c7-0b21-2810-8057feb664b9/mzl.eybuqdxl.png/640x920.png) - [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple114/v4/44/8c/31/448c3127-1ddd-e87f-b4c3-3c6974934204/mzl.rmpdxnmb.png/640x920.png) - [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple114/v4/a5/7c/b3/a57cb351-ab70-4d46-d9a1-3d86c8ca675f/mzl.wnkhyoek.png/640x920.png) - [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple124/v4/4b/44/63/4b4463e9-93c9-ebb5-4a6a-b5ebacfd28fc/mzl.kyypwzak.png/640x920.png) - [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple114/v4/b7/4b/ae/b74bae5c-4f21-b45f-fb18-ed500d69cb94/mzl.pszexsgv.png/640x920.png) ## TypeIt4Me Touch Rating Breakdown in United States - 5 stars: 5 (45%) - 4 stars: 1 (9%) - 3 stars: 1 (9%) - 2 stars: 3 (27%) - 1 stars: 1 (9%) ## TypeIt4Me Touch Reviews in United States ### *---- "Real Bad" It is intuitive and difficult to manage. -- A-Vin Boston, 2025-08-20 ### **--- "Workable but highly flawed" Once snippets have been created on another device, and if the app actually communicates with iCloud properly, the app is usable. But creating snippets on iPhone is completely impossible, which makes any attempt to use the app in a quick and reactive way a lost cause. The moment you try to create or edit a snippet it’s like the app interface expands to be 25% larger than the iPhone screen area, meaning you can no longer see, select, add, or edit text. I’d say that the only platform it really works well on is macOS, but adding snippets there is an exercise in metronome-regular crashes and restarts. One has to wonder if the app developers are testing this app at all, or just tossing it out to us with barely a look back. -- Gwynn, 2024-11-30 ### ***** "A long-time fan" I’ve used TypeIt4Me for many years and find it invaluable. I downloaded the new OS and iOS versions a few days ago and had a question for Ettore support. The detailed and helpful answer came within a day from an actual human being. -- The best nicknames are taken!, 2023-08-17 ### ***** "Time saver that syncs across devices" Saves a lot of time by allowing you to use keyboard shortcuts for frequently typed text! Snippets sync via iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac. It’s a little frustrating to have to invoke a special keyboard in order to access the snippets, but that’s a limitation set by Apple not the developer. -- snoop_z, 2022-08-18 ### ***** "A Solid Solution" I use this app multiple times a day, so I thought I would give it a shout out. It’s not perfect, but it’s the best solution I have found on the Mac and iOS for text expansion. Why is it not perfect? It’s been a little bit buggy over the years, but most of that has been worked out. That’s why I’m giving it five stars and I hope the developer continues to work on it! You should give it a try. -- BourneMedia, 2021-01-04 ### ***-- "Good follow through to Mac app" Having been a fan of the MacOS version since it first came out I like the keyboard's approach to predicting my list of shortcuts synched from my Mac, but I would have preferred go see my shortcuts appear on a separate line as I really miss the usual IOS word predictions which don't seem to come up the same way. I also miss being able to swipe down on the keys to get the numbers without having too switch to the number layout. If those two issues could be resolved, I'd give it 5 stars. -- Rene7, 2020-07-11 ### **--- "Not as seamless as on the Mac" On the Mac, I can type dta and have it replace the text with 20171223. With this app, I have to go to a different keyboard and then type dta, and then try to go back to the regular keyboard. Replacing text with current date and or time is the only thing not available through iOS>Settings>Keyboard>Text Replacement. Which I find is something I don’t do on iOS since there are no files to change the name on. -- Randy131516, 2017-12-24 ### ***** "Great App!" I can't speak to the usefulness of the custom keyboard since I do not use it. Within the app you may use any keyboard that you like and this is what I do. It is great for entering computer code. Thank you very much! -- Zelah Hutchinson, 2017-03-12 ### ***** "Incomplete Bluetooth Keyboard Support (iOS limitation)" This app seemed to work just fine in my tests. Unfortunately, in my case it isn't capable of doing what I was hoping it would do. I use a bluetooth keyboard for all my typing on the iPad, so that is the only method I tried out. The snippets worked as expected and were triggered great within the application. Unfortunately, the snippets cannot be triggered by typing the keywords on a bluetooth keyboard outside of the TypeIt4Me application. This is apparently a limitation in how iOS handles keyboard extensions as of the time of this review, so it is beyond the developer's control. So you would have to use the onscreen keyboard to trigger the snippets. In my case, I needed the snippets to use with my programming text editor, which has several other features I use. So working in the TypeIt4Me application is not really an option. So I will be returning this application. However, I wanted to leave a 5 star review for the quick and detailed customer service I received. -- Bfiekebfjfkeknsndf, 2016-09-28 ### *---- "Slows me down" I was so excited about this app, what would I do with all my spare time, not having to type my most common full sentences. Unfortunately, the app doesn't work well in my workflow at all. In order for your shortcuts to work, you have to be in the apps keyboard. But the keyboar does not match the ios keyboard and it is extremely slow to respond. I will type this sentence twice, once in my regular keyboard and once in the typeit4me keyboard. il epet setactwoce, onjnte regua kyboardandnce in h yoeit 4 ekyboard. That's garbled mess is me trying to type normally in the type it 4 me keyboard. If I want it to come out decently, it would take me at least 3 times longer to type. Also, the keyboard often covers the words I am typing so I can't even see the result in real time. To make matters worse, to get out of the keyboard, you don't just press the change keyboard button, you have to scroll up to the next keyboard option. I change keyboards all the time. I have an English, Spanish, and emoji keyboard. Now with this keyboard, when I land on it, I have to take an extra step to get out. I was excited about what this app could do for my workflow, but instead it is completely destroying my workflow. I can't believe I paid $5 for it. This is likely to inform what I will do after my free trial for the software on my MacBook is up. I am uninstalling until I hear that this has been completely revamped and actually works. -- Mndzle, 2016-06-14 ### *---- "Neglected" App hasn't been updated since July 2015. Love this app on my Mac, but can't use it on my iPad Pro. Hopefully there will be an update soon. Until then, this is useless on iPad Pro. -- puritan, 2016-05-08 ### **--- "Deep Disappointment" I haven't been this disappointed in an app in a long time. It's about half finished, at best. I am using it on a 12.9" iPad Pro, and the keyboard is a mess in landscape mode. The keyboard stays the same size as it is in portrait, but over on the side. Many keys available in the normal keyboard, including the numbers, aren't there. the keyboard layout for the iPad Pro is pretty nice, but all you get are the basic letters with this program. And the keys don't seem to work as well - I have to type at about half speed to type correctly. Because this is essentially a keyboard program, there's just no excuse. It's basically unusable, or at the most, a steep step down from the normal iPad keyboard. Also, auto correct doesn't seem to work, although there is a radio button for this in the settings menu. In short, I had to turn it off just to write this review. Maybe future iterations will be better. SCB -- SCBrain, 2016-04-06 ### ****- "Much-improved." As a long-time user of TypeIt4Me on the Mac, with a nice file of short “triggers” to long expansions, I was eager to get this in iOS. The initial offering as a stand-alone app was not satisfactory. Now it comes as a keyboard extension, and with a shared library in the cloud for all my devices, it is nearly perfect. The keyboard itself could be better (proper quotes, dashes, etc.) but it’s good enough to be a useful tool. So pay the man already and get your i–device working harder for you! -- BeenAroundAwhile, 2016-01-28 ### *---- "How do I get a refund." This app works fundamentally different from the Mac app. There is a warning about this, but you need to look for it. As it stands, to me, the program is completely useless. How do I get a refund? -- JayFSee, 2013-10-27 ### ***** "One of the best..." ...apps for Macs. If Apple would allow this app to work the same on iPads as it does on the Macintosh, this would be a ten star app. -- TLinTucson, 2013-05-21 ### *---- "Absolute crap!" I have owned this app on my Mac for years...use it countless times a day...love it .... what is wrong with you that you would make this so poorly for the iPhone ? It is a waste of time. Extremely disappointed. Make it work as it does on the Mac or go away. Has no value whatsoever...I wish I could choose less than one star. -- HisGeekness, 2012-08-14 ### ***** "you also need the Mac version to really get the full effect of this program" now that iCloud is supported on both platforms the Mac and iOS this program really works put shortcuts on the Mac and they will check over with iCloud so for what it does this really comes in handy more so Dendy auto complete with the text keyboard shortcuts hi recommended for Mac people but for the Windows side I'll Danderes anything for that if you have a Mac also by the Mac software actually good about the Mac software first thing about this -- Dqhpmp, 2012-08-07 ### *---- "Doesn't sync with desktop version either...total waste!" Worthless app until they either include at least syncing and hopefully the ability to work with other apps too -- App~Guru, 2012-07-31 ### *---- "TERRIBLE PRODUCT" I did not understand the reviews. It types clips only into its own screen. Ridiculous! If that ain't low-tech enough, It takes at least four moves and as many as seven to insert a clip. Why bother? -- Dawg Lip, 2012-06-28 ### *---- "Desktop TI4M loyalist miffed at iOS port" Being one-handed due to a stroke disability, I LOVED (& own) several versions of Ettore's magnificent Mac desktop utility over the years. But I dl'd the iPhone version a coupla years back & it is totally pointless. One has to type out their clippings to expand within a standalone TI4M document and NOT in the desired app. Sheesh!!! iOS now has keyboard shortcut expansions built-in, but no facility to auto-type out, say, the current date and time. Can't import old clippings from desktop app either. Thot the iPad version might have more sophisticated capabilities, but alas...no. Further, the Documentation is astonishingly scant on the iOS apps. Even the flagship desktopper has, to my chagrin dropped its TSR-like macro feature and needs to be launched fully as an app in the background to be used. A good app going bassackwards! So the upshot? I've paid Ettore THREE effing times for his app on 3 platforms and am thrice bitten finally shy. -- PapaFrog, 2012-05-21 [View all TypeIt4Me Touch reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://apptail.io/account/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## TypeIt4Me Touch Store Rankings | Chart | Country | Category | Rank | |-------|---------|----------|------| | Top Paid | Belgium | Productivity | #261 | | Top Paid | Austria | Productivity | #276 | | Top Paid | Ireland | Productivity | #317 | | Top Paid | Netherlands | Productivity | #317 | | Top Paid | Sweden | Productivity | #327 | | Top Paid | France | Productivity | #335 | | Top Paid | Italy | Productivity | #345 | | Top Paid | Switzerland | Productivity | #363 | | Top Paid | Spain | Productivity | #367 | | Top Paid | Germany | Productivity | #369 | | Top Paid | Denmark | Productivity | #373 | | Top Paid | Lebanon | Productivity | #383 | | Top Paid | Canada | Productivity | #390 | | Top Paid | Dominican Republic | Productivity | #391 | | Top Paid | Argentina | Productivity | #394 | | Top Paid | India | Productivity | #394 | | Top Paid | Greece | Productivity | #402 | | Top Paid | Singapore | Productivity | #406 | | Top Paid | Australia | Productivity | #409 | | Top Paid | United Kingdom | Productivity | #420 | | Top Paid | Chile | Productivity | #422 | | Top Paid | New Zealand | Productivity | #422 | | Top Paid | Norway | Productivity | #424 | | Top Paid | Indonesia | Productivity | #430 | | Top Paid | Portugal | Productivity | #434 | | Top Paid | Japan | Productivity | #448 | | Top Paid | Finland | Productivity | #453 | | Top Paid | Brazil | Productivity | #454 | | Top Paid | Hungary | Productivity | #463 | | Top Paid | Poland | Productivity | #473 | | Top Paid | Hong Kong SAR China | Productivity | #484 | | Top Paid | Egypt | Productivity | #494 | ## Apps Similar to TypeIt4Me Touch - 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