Conjure

A text expander for Mac. Type ;sig and your signature appears. Type teh and it becomes the before you notice. A soft, configurable sound confirms every expansion.

Part of the Mac suite · in private beta — ask for a build

Apple silicon, macOS 15 or later. Signed and notarized by Apple; the app updates itself.

What it does

Expansion that doesn't lag. A listen-only event tap watches your keystrokes and never blocks them. Replacements are injected as synthetic key events — no clipboard use, ever.
Triggers that stay quiet mid-word. A ty snippet doesn't fire inside "typing" or "quality". Symbol-prefixed triggers like ;sig fire instantly.
Placeholders. {date}, {time}, any date format pattern, date and time math like {date+30d} or {time-30m}, {clipboard} with case transforms, and {cursor} to say where the caret lands afterwards.
Fill-in forms. {field:name} and {menu:…} turn a snippet into a small form. {snippet:…} nests one snippet inside another, and {key:tab} presses keys for you.
Spell fix, carefully. A curated, editable list of 348 common misspellings with case preserved — teh→the, Teh→The, TEH→THE. It never capitalizes i, never apostrophizes dont, and never touches thx or lol.
Terminal-safe. In Terminal, iTerm, Warp, Ghostty and friends, snippets still expand but spell-fix is hard-disabled, so your flags and paths are never rewritten. Code editors are excluded by default too, and the list is editable.
Reminds you what you named things. As you type the start of a trigger, a small hint floats near the cursor listing the matches. It never steals focus or changes a keystroke.
Quick capture. Select text anywhere, press ⌃⌥N, and it becomes a snippet on the spot — read through the Accessibility API, not the clipboard.
Optional AI. Off by default, and each feature picks its own backend: on-device Apple Intelligence, OpenAI with your key, or nothing. {ai:…} snippets, ⌃⌥R to rewrite a selection, and learning that turns a phrase you keep retyping into a template with fill-in fields.
Pause. "Pause for 15 minutes" from the menu bar, with automatic resume, for when you're sharing your screen.
Groups and scoping. Snippet groups with per-app rules, trigger prefixes, conflict detection for shadowed triggers, per-snippet usage stats, daily backups, and JSON import/export.

Privacy

Snippets and learning data live in ~/Library/Application Support/Conjure/ as plain JSON you can read, edit or back up by hand. Your keystroke stream never leaves your Mac and is never written to disk. OpenAI is contacted only if you explicitly set a feature to it, and then only with the prompt or selected text — never the keystroke buffer.

Conjure needs Accessibility access to see and inject keystrokes. There is no macOS entitlement for that; the grant is yours to give and revoke, and Conjure notices if it's silently revoked.