Expands as you type
Type //addr and your full address appears the moment you finish. Rather skip the prefix? Type addr and press Space instead. It's a setting.
Text expander for Windows
Type three letters. Get the whole paragraph.
Save a snippet once and give it a short abbreviation. From then on, type
//sig and Hastekey writes your full sign-off for you, in the
programs you already use every day.
Launching soon for Windows 10 and 11.
Features
Small app, lots of saved keystrokes
Hastekey sits quietly in the notification area and fills in the text you type over and over.
Live dates and times
{{date+3d}} types the date three days from now, worked out at the moment you use it.
More than typing
A snippet can press Tab or Ctrl+B, pause, wait for a key, paste a clickable link, or drop in a picture.
Safe imports
Snippets from someone else open in a Review import screen first, and anything that presses keys stays off until you turn it on.
Stays out of the way
Runs in the notification area. Pause it from anywhere with Ctrl+Alt+H, and bring it back with Ctrl+Up.
Five looks
The warm Hastekey look in light or dark, plus Modern, Classic, Messenger and Chat. Switch any time, no restart.
Looks
Pick the look that feels like yours
Every look has the same screens and features. Only the style changes.
Privacy
It watches for shortkeys and nothing else
A text expander has to see what you type. Hastekey is built so that what it sees never goes anywhere.
- Only the last 32 charactersKept in memory to spot a shortkey, then cleared when you press Enter, click, or switch windows.
- Never saved, never sentWhat you type is never written to disk and never leaves your computer.
- No internet connection at allHastekey works fully offline. There's no account and no telemetry.
- Your snippets are your filesStored as plain JSON on your PC, easy to back up, script or edit in bulk.
Pricing
Try everything free for 14 days
Hastekey is paid software with a full-featured trial. Pricing will be announced at launch.
Free trial
14 daysevery feature included
When the trial ends, snippets stop expanding, but you can still open Hastekey and view, edit, import and export them. Nothing is deleted or held back.
Coming from another text expander? Hastekey imports Hastekey JSON files and the plain-text export from ShortKeys.
Requirements
- Windows 10 version 1607 or later, or Windows 11
- 64-bit only
- No administrator rights needed to install
- Installs for your user account only
Why Hastekey
We used a Windows text expander every single day. Then its developers stopped working on it, and we were left with a tool no one was looking after. We'd grown too fond of typing three letters and getting a whole paragraph, so we built a replacement ourselves.
The Routrix Technologies team