SIPLX
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Text expander — Android and Windows

The reply you already wrote — in every app on your phone.

Type a short trigger, press space, and the full text is already there — in WhatsApp, in email, in the form you’re filling in. Android and Windows, free to start.

Type /ship then press space — and the whole reply is in the field.

A phone’s messaging app. In the message field the trigger /ship is typed, the space bar is pressed, and the trigger is replaced by the full saved reply: “Yes, we ship to Ireland. Orders placed before 4pm go out the same day and usually arrive in 3–5 working days.”

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Android · Windows · Free to start

~30 sec

saved per snippet

The assumption our time calculator runs on — not a measurement of you.

50

snippets on Free

No card, no trial clock. The limit is in the app, not a countdown.

Android + Windows

two apps you install

Not a browser extension. It works in the apps you already type in.

How it works

Three steps, once.

You do this one time per phrase. After that it is two keystrokes, forever.

  1. Save the text you keep retyping.

    The address. The opening line. The refund policy you have typed four hundred times.

  2. Give it a short trigger.

    Something you would never type by accident.

    /ship/addr

  3. Type the trigger anywhere, press space.

    The trigger disappears and the saved text is in the field.

    space

On Android SIPLX uses the accessibility service; on Windows it watches for your triggers itself. Either way, you keep your own keyboard.

On the screen

Two ways in, for the trigger you cannot remember.

Type the trigger and press space when you know it. When you do not, each app has a way to go and look — and neither one is a trip to another window.

Both pictures below are drawn in HTML from the real interface — they are not screenshots.

Windows

The search palette

A search box that opens on top of whatever you are working in, and puts the snippet back into it.

Press Ctrl+; in any program. Change it in Settings if those keys are spoken for.

Show the search paletteHide the search palette
The Windows palette, part-way through typing “re”. A drawing of the SIPLX search palette on Windows: a search box containing “re”, Snippets, Clipboard and Note tabs, and four matching snippets — slash refund, slash pricing, slash delivery and slash product — each with its name and the first line of its text. The first is selected and shows the Enter key. A bar along the bottom reads: up and down arrows to navigate, Enter to paste, Escape to close, Ctrl and zero to reset its position, and “Paste into: Reply to Dana”.
  • Search any part of a snippet — its trigger, its name, or a few words of the text. The part you typed is picked out in every row, so you can see why each one is there.
  • Enter pastes it into the window you came from, and the bar along the bottom names that window before you press anything. If it cannot reach that window, the text goes to your clipboard instead and SIPLX tells you.
  • A Clipboard tab sits beside the snippets, for the thing you copied a minute ago and have already lost, and a Note tab beside that.

Android

The suggestion overlay

A short list that floats over the app you are already typing in — your messages, your email, the form in front of you.

Nothing to press. Start typing a trigger and the snippets that match appear over the app you are in. Carry on and press space if you already know the one you want.

Show the suggestion overlayHide the suggestion overlay
The Android overlay, part-way through typing “/pr”. A drawing of the SIPLX suggestion overlay on Android: a message thread with a card floating above the text field. The card is labelled NORTHWIND SUPPORT in capitals — a team workspace; a personal one is labelled PERSONAL — and lists two matching snippets, slash PRICING and slash PRODUCT, each with the first words of its text. The field below holds the three characters “/pr”.
  • Tap a row and the text goes into the field you were typing in. The app you are in does not change.
  • Each row carries the trigger word that matched what you typed — the one you actually typed, not whichever word the snippet was first saved under — and the beginning of its text.
  • SIPLX does not ask for the draw-over-other-apps permission. The list is drawn with Android’s own accessibility overlay, and your keyboard stays your keyboard.

Where it lands

Four people. Four triggers. The same two keystrokes.

The replies below are example snippets, written for a made-up shop called Northwind. They are not SIPLX’s own terms.

Anyone filling in a form

Your address, without typing your address.

Checkout, a delivery note, a returns label — the same five lines, every single time.

Type/addrthen pressspace

Ana Reyes

41 Prospect Row, Apt 2B

Bristol BS1 4TR

United Kingdom

+44 7700 900142

Support and online sellers

The shipping answer, in the app they asked in.

In the app your customers are already messaging you in — not in a tab you have to go and find.

Type/shipthen pressspace

Northwind posts every order within one working day, and it usually lands in 3–5 days. If anything is not right when it arrives, you have 21 days to send it back and I’ll email you the return label.

Sales and quotes

Edit it on your PC. Send it from your phone.

The price block lives in one place. Change it once and it is right in both.

Type/quotethen pressspace

Northwind’s quote for the 40-unit order:

40 × Model A2 — £1,160

Delivery, 3–5 days — £45

Total — £1,205

Held for 45 days. Happy to put it on a PO if that is easier.

A team answering with one voice

One person changed it. Everybody’s reply changed.

Ana shortened Northwind’s refund window in the shared library. Sam typed his trigger on his own phone and got the new wording. Nobody sent him a message about it.

The SIPLX library on Android showing a team workspace named Northwind Support, with five shared snippets: /pricing, /delivery, /refund, /product and /followup, each with the member who last edited it.
Ana’s phone — a real screenshot of SIPLX on Android. The list still carries Northwind’s older refund wording.

Type/refundthen pressspace

Northwind refunds any order in full within 21 days of purchase. Send it back in whatever packaging you have — the return label is on its way to your email now.

Sam’s phone, in Messages. The new wording, and nobody told him.

For teams

Update it once. Everyone uses the right reply.

One shared library, on every member’s phone and on every member’s PC.

Change the wording and it is changed for everyone — nobody has to be told — and the history shows who changed what.

See SIPLX for teams

The SIPLX library on Windows, showing a team workspace with the shared snippets /pricing, /delivery, /refund, /product and /followup, and the editor open on one of them.

AI Format

Messy in. Clean out.

Paste rough text and AI Format tidies the spacing, punctuation and structure before it becomes a snippet.

A run starts only when you ask for one, on the text you give it — never on what you type.

What you paste

hi thanks for getting in touch - yes northwind ships to the EU,usually 3-5 working days.returns within 21 days no problem just reply here

What you keep

Hi — thanks for getting in touch!

Yes, Northwind ships to the EU. Delivery is usually 3–5 working days, and anything can go back within 21 days. Just reply here and Northwind will sort it out.

The text you format is sent to our server and on to an AI service to be rewritten. Our server does not keep it — it records only how big the request was and how many tokens it used. On Windows, SIPLX keeps its own copy in your AI history, on your PC.

What SIPLX sends and what it keeps

What happens to your typing

It has to read your typing. Here is exactly what happens to it.

  • On Android, SIPLX reads the text of the field you are typing in — that is what the accessibility permission is for, and it is not permitted to see your key presses at all. On Windows it watches your keystrokes instead, and that is off until you switch it on.
  • What you type is held in memory just long enough to recognise a trigger, and thrown away on the next focus change. It is never written to storage.
  • SIPLX never uploads what you type in other apps. Text you write in SIPLX itself can leave your device, each time because of something you use — cloud sync, a team, AI Format, feedback — and the security page goes through each one.
  • SIPLX asks for no location, contacts, camera, microphone or file permission, and there is no analytics SDK and no crash reporter in either app.

What SIPLX reads, sends and keeps

Do the math

How much time goes into typing the same thing twice?

Two numbers from you, four assumptions from us. All four are printed below, so you can see exactly where the answer comes from.

On those two numbers

83hours

saved in a working year

20 min saved in a day

Anything from 1 to 300.
Typical lengths
A one-line address is around 90. A short canned reply is a few hundred.

Each time one fires

Typed out in full32 sec
With SIPLX /addr space2 sec

That is about 30 sec saved each time one fires.

What it is assuming

  • You type 180 characters a minute — roughly 36 words.
  • Expanding is not free: you still type the trigger, so 6 characters come off every snippet.
  • You work 250 days a year.
  • Every one of those snippets is text you would otherwise have typed out in full.

This is an estimate built from those four lines and the two numbers you entered. It is not a measurement — nothing here is counted from real use, and the last assumption is the shakiest one, because only you know how much of your typing really does repeat.

Pricing

Start free. 50 snippets, no card, no trial clock.

Free is 50 snippets on one device — not five, and not for thirty days.

  • Free

    $0forever

    50 snippets, on the device you make them on.

  • Plus

    $0.99per month

    or $9.99 a year

    Unlimited snippets. Your own library stays on the device.

  • Pro

    $2.99per month

    or $19.99 a year

    Unlimited snippets, syncing between your phone and your PC.

  • Team

    $4.99per user / month

    two seats minimum

    One shared library for everybody, on both platforms.

Prices in US dollars. On Android you subscribe inside the app and Google Play charges you in your own currency, at the price it sets for your country. Checkout on this site is handled separately, and the final amount, including any tax, is shown before you pay.

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FAQ

Questions, answered

Open any of them. They are all in the page whether you click or not.

  • Which platforms does SIPLX support?

    Android 8.0 or newer, and Windows 10 or newer on a 64-bit PC. Those are the only two — there is no web version and no browser extension. Keeping the two libraries in step is what Pro adds; on Free and Plus each device keeps its own.

  • Will triggers fire by accident?

    You choose your own triggers, so you can make them as distinctive as you like — /addr rather than addr. Typing a trigger inside SIPLX itself does not expand it either.

  • Does it work with Chinese, Japanese and Korean?

    Yes. It is designed for Chinese, Japanese and Korean input, and the app interface itself ships in 15 languages.

  • Why does it say I have 0 AI Format uses?

    The ten free AI Format uses a week need a confirmed email address, and they reset every Monday, UTC. Signing in with Google confirms the address for you, so an account made that way has all ten from the start. An older account that never confirmed its address shows 0 — sign in with Google on that same address and the uses appear.

  • Do image attachments sync between my devices?

    No. Images you attach to a snippet stay on the device you added them to. They are not uploaded, so they will not appear on your other devices or survive a reinstall.

Not your question?

Prices, seats and cancelling are answered in full on the pricing page, and who may edit a shared library is on the team page. If it is none of those, the form reaches us by email.

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