Writing Star: Text Expander

Auto text expanding app to type less, write fast, expand text & word replace

Writing Star: Text Expander - Type Less, Write Fast

"Writing Star: Text Expander" is an Android app designed to simplify typing by replacing abbreviations with predetermined phrases. Easily manage your text replacements, enjoy automatic expansions as you type, and customize settings to enhance your typing experience. With features like smart case handling, suggestion overlays, and backspace undo, it streamlines daily text tasks while keeping your information secure. Say goodbye to repetitive typing and embrace efficiency with Writing Star!

App stats

Users: 80,271
45
Version: 1.1.11 (Last updated: 2024-11-25)
Creation date: 2020-09-01
Permissions
Identity: find accounts on the device
Contacts: find accounts on the device
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Microphone: record audio
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Other:
  • bind to an accessibility service
  • display unauthorized windows
  • modify secure system settings
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
  • full network access
  • run at startup
  • draw over other apps
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

Tired of Typing or copy pasting your address, phone number, account details over and over again?

Writing star gives you convenience of typing less but getting long phrases by planning abbreviations of your choice.

How supportive it is! When you have to give the same details to people several times, rather than copy-pasting, you can directly write short forms and get whole information in a second.

Automatic expansion means, as soon as a keyword is typed, it will be replaced with its associated Text automatically. You can add the text of your choice to get replaced it with short terms.

For example: If you choose ADR for address, and have added your whole address as a phrase, Next time, whenever you type Adr, You will get the whole address written on the screen.

How does the Writing Star: Text Expander & Auto-complete text App work?

♦ Once you open an Application, You can “+” add a phrase of your choice.
♦ Add Short terms in the given box
♦ Write down the Phrase that you want to get as a result
♦ In Phrase, you can also add Date, Time, Day, Month, Year, and Hour on the time when you are sending a message using short term.
♦ You can also add notes if required.
♦ In settings, You can keep night mode if needed.
♦ With the help of Text Expansion Settings, you can make your required things work.
♦ Appearance in setting explains for Overlay screen for Shortcut suggestion.

Interesting Features:

TEXT EXPANSION

Backspace to undo:

In case you don't want to convert words in a long phrase, by pressing backspace for once, you will get your typed word back without auto-complete.

Smart case:

While typing, if your short word starts with lowercase, your long-phrase conversion will also start with lowercase, and if your short word starts with uppercase, Your long phrase will also start with uppercase if you enabled smart case.

If you disabled Smart case, then whether your typed word is lower or uppercase, your long-phrase will be there as you mentioned in the Writing star phrase box.

Append space:

If enabled, it will add space to the end of the inserted phrase.

Expand with space/punctual:

You can also trigger text expansion with space and punctuation characters. It means, if you add a mixture of space and punctuation, you get your phrase there as text too.

Blacklisted Apps:

Add apps for which you don’t want to get expansions of words while using those Apps.

APPEARANCE

Suggestion Overlay screen:

By turning this on, you will get an overlay screen having a list of suggestions that you have added for particular words.

Threshold for overlay screen:

The minimum amount of characters you need to type to get indicator window to show up

💠 Indicator timeout:

Add a time limit for which you want to allow the suggestion indicator to show up on screen.

💠 Max. shortcut suggestions to show:

You will get your output given as a phrase everytime you type that short term next.

Why Writing Star?

💡 Plan shortcuts to get long texts for frequently used terms.
💡 Provide Typing help with Quick type
💡 Expanding text By putting text shortcut and phrase text
💡 Change phrase case based on shortcut case
💡 See shortcut suggestions on overlay screen
💡 Enjoy Text expansion for every text just by typing short term
💡 Easy text replacement for speed type
💡 Word replace with phrase for quick shortcuts
💡 Auto text expander for faster typing
💡 Fill text in phrase to add full forms of Shortcuts
💡 It’s not a keyboard, but a word board.
💡 Easy and quick text input assistant

Text Expander uses the Accessibility API to replace corresponding phrases with saved shortcuts. Through this API, the app doesn't collect any personal or sensitive information

In order to function properly, the app needs Overlay window permission, no battery optimizer, and background running permission.

Battery optimization and third party battery saver apps can prevent Writing star from doing its job properly. Feel free to contact us for any query and suggestion.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Smooth performance and better than previous apps
  • Simple and useful for text expansion
  • Accurate results in seconds
  • Highly recommended for stability and usability
Cons
  • Excessive intrusive ads, including video ads
  • Issues with text expansion not working correctly
  • App sometimes erases previously written content
  • Requires unnecessary permissions
Most mentioned
  • Ads are a major problem
  • Text expansion features are inconsistent
  • User interface issues, such as menus disappearing quickly
User reviews
Doesn't work in all Apps, Apps that are show stoppers for me. It looks pretty good and seems to work well when it does, but the 1 star is for the insane amount of adds to need to go through EVERY time you open this App.
by Sgt, 2024-11-03

Nice so far will be good without ads Happy tonpay
by Rabi Nambi, 2024-09-13

for phrase list, the menu disappear very fast (~ avg 2s), it suppose to close after I ticked a phrase, and it was no sidebar to scroll for a long list, please help to enhance this feature, thanks
by th ng, 2024-08-26
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