Hotkey Sauce — the playful text expander for Mac

Hotkey Sauce

Type less. Sauce more.

The playful text expander that lives in your Mac menu bar. Type ;addr anywhere → get your full address instantly.

Download for macOSSee how it works
Notes

Thanks for reading —

;sig→ signature;addr→ address

See it work

Watch Hotkey Sauce expand snippets across your Mac — from library to Notes to Slack

The flow: Add a snippet like ;sig to your library → Type it in Notes and boom, instant signature → Try ;addr in Slack and your address appears. Pure magic, system-wide.

How it works

Three simple steps to spice up your workflow

1

Create a snippet

Give it a short trigger like ;addr and the full text you want expanded. Works for addresses, signatures, templates, code blocks — anything you type repeatedly.

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Pro tip: Start triggers with a semicolon so they won't trigger accidentally while you type normal text.

Step 1: Create a snippet with a trigger and expansion text
Step 2: Type your shortcut anywhere on Mac
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Type your shortcut anywhere

Hotkey Sauce monitors your typing system-wide. Type ;addr in any app — email, Slack, docs, code editor, browser — and it's ready to expand.

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Works everywhere: Truly system-wide. Any app, any text field, any time. It just works.

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Instant expansion

Boom. Your trigger becomes the full text — instantly. Your mailing address, your email signature, your meeting invite template. Whatever you need, delivered in milliseconds.

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Feels like magic: No clicking, no menus, no interruptions. You type, it expands. Pure flow.

Step 3: Watch your trigger expand into the full text instantly
Hotkey Sauce use cases - Add flavor anywhere you work

One sauce. Every workflow.

Make it yours.

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Email Signature

Never type your contact details again.;sig → full name, title, email, socials, formatted and ready.

;sig →
Alex Rivers
they/them
alex@company.com
@handle

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Calendar / Meeting

Send meeting invites and reminders in seconds.;meet → pre-formatted invite with time, place, agenda.

When: Tue, May 14
Where: Zoom
Bring: Good vibes ✨

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Code Snippet

Boilerplate, imports, templates — expand them in your editor.;for → full loop structure.

if (stuck()) {
  addSauce();
  return win;
}
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Support Reply

Save your best responses.;thanks → warm, personalized reply template. Stay helpful, stay fast.

"Hi! Thanks for reaching out. We've added Hotkey Sauce to your workspace — let us know how it spices things up! 🌶️"

Power move: Snippets can contain other snippets.

Rich text formatting, dynamic tokens (date, clipboard, prompts), and more. Build your perfect workflow.

Packed with flavor

Instant Expansion

Type your trigger anywhere in macOS and watch it expand. ;date becomes today's date, ;meet becomes your meeting template.

Search Palette

Press ⌥⌘Space to open the snippet search. Fuzzy find any snippet, hit Return, and it's inserted instantly.

Smart Tokens

Add placeholders that fill in dynamically: current date, time, clipboard contents, cursor position, custom prompts, UUIDs. Build powerful templates with ease.

Get Hotkey Sauce

Every update builds a fresh Mac app zip you can download from this site.

Download for macOS

Installation steps:

  1. 1Download and unzip
  2. 2Drag Hotkey Sauce.app to your Applications folder (optional, but keeps things tidy)
  3. 3

    If macOS blocks the app from opening:

    Right-click (or Control-click) Hotkey Sauce.app → Open → Open

  4. 4Grant Accessibility permission when macOS asks — the app needs this to watch for your shortcuts and expand them

Early build note: This is a friends-and-family release. Upcoming versions will go through Apple notarization for one-click installs — until then, the Right-click → Open flow gets you in.

Requirements: macOS 13 (Ventura) or later