Never retype your recurring texts again.

Find your texts in a second

No need to know all your trigger shortcuts by heart. Instant search (also called the “palette”) finds your circuts in a blink, whatever you happen to be doing.

1. Press ⌘CC to open the palette.
2. Type a few letters to find your circut.
3. Insert it with ↩.

That’s it. You never left your window or your keyboard: your recurring texts are a few keystrokes away, from any text field, anywhere on your Mac.

And you search with what you remember, not with a name: Circut indexes the full text of the circut, its trigger and any keywords you’ve added to it.

No more scrolling through your list: one word is enough.

Your hands never leave the keyboard

Circut can be driven entirely from the keyboard. Hold ⌘ on any screen and it shows you its shortcuts where they apply, without hunting through a menu.

The palette is never more than a ⌘CC away, the list moves under the arrow keys, and ⌘↩ confirms. Finding, editing or filing a circut costs a few keystrokes.

Nobody asks you to learn these shortcuts. They show up while you hold ⌘, and from seeing them your fingers end up knowing them. One day, you stop looking.

Create a circut without interrupting yourself

The right moment to create a shortcut is the moment you’ve just retyped the sentence it will replace. Circut is built for that instant: select the text you just wrote, and it becomes a circut in a few seconds, without switching windows or leaving the keyboard.

1. ⌘CC to copy your text and open the palette at the same time.
2. ⌘N to create a circut from the clipboard.
3. Whatever trigger shortcut you like.
4. ⌘S to save.

Creation starts from wherever you are: the palette, the menu bar, the main window. Whichever way you begin, the gesture is the same.

Nothing to put off until later: it’s already done.

As responsive as your keyboard

Many macOS apps are just a website wrapped in a window. An Electron app ships a whole browser, and every keystroke goes through it before reaching the screen. You feel it in your fingers. A palette that takes a beat to open, a field that lags behind, often over a hundred megabytes for a text tool. None of that here.

Circut is written entirely in Swift, Apple’s language for the Mac, with the system’s own building blocks (SwiftUI, AppKit) and nothing else. No hidden browser, no layer between your keystroke and the screen: the app answers as fast as the Mac allows. Every key is read on a thread that does nothing else. Recognizing a trigger among 5,000 takes under a microsecond.

Don’t take our word for it: weigh the download.

Choosing a trigger is no longer a gamble

It’s the second wall of text expansion: a good trigger has to be easy to remember, quick to type, and it must never fire on its own inside an ordinary word. That’s a craft old hands take years to build.

Circut suggests triggers from your text, and checks each one before handing it over: taken by another circut, shadowed by a shorter one (,d would hide ,date), or too close to a real word. The shadow doesn’t only come from the start: a circut fires as soon as the end of what you type spells it out, so wel would stop ;welcome from ever firing. The built-in English word list (over 5,000 words) is there for that, and the verdict shows as you type, not when you save.

File your circuts with your own words

Circut has no folders: it has #categories, and a circut can belong to several at once. Type #client in the palette or the list, and every circut in that #category is there. In the list, each circut shows its own: a click on one runs that same search.

Keywords without a hash are for finding: tag a circut invoice or follow-up, and the palette will find it by that word.

The editor offers the #categories you already use, with the number of circuts in each, enough to keep a consistent vocabulary. When a convention changes, a #category is added or removed across dozens of circuts at once. And your folders from another tool become #categories on import.

Each circut fires the way you decided

Some texts should fire as you type, without a thought: your signature, your stock phrases, your corrections. Others, not necessarily. Some circuts are looked up more than they are typed, and the emoji whose trigger you don’t know by heart has no need to watch your every keystroke.

So each circut has its own expansion mode: As you type, Via the palette, or Disabled.

The Via the palette mode also answers a question of space. A good trigger is a scarce resource: short, memorable, and free of conflict. The more your library grows, the fewer good ones are left. A circut you look up in the palette needs no trigger at all, since search is its key. It takes up none: the trigger gamble never even comes up.

Muscle memory builds itself

You have a circut for that! lmk → let me know idk → I don’t know tmrw → tomorrow bcz → because thx → thanks mtg → meeting

Having a circut isn’t enough: you still have to think of it at the right moment. That’s where most libraries fall asleep.

When you type out a text you already had, Circut lets you know: a discreet notification, and one click to open the circut in question. The statistics count those missed opportunities and show the ones that come back most often, because a frequently missed circut usually hides a badly chosen trigger.

Your next circuts are already in what you type

A library grows in fits and starts: you create a circut the day you’ve had enough of retyping the same thing. Everything else keeps going through the keyboard, unnoticed.

Circut can count the texts that keep coming back, skip the ones you already have a circut for, and keep only those worth a trigger. One click opens the editor with the text already in place. A cross sets the suggestion aside to make room for others, and you can bring it back if you change your mind.

None of this starts without you. Observation is one click away, and everything is erased the day you turn it off. Circut doesn’t keep what you type: it counts fingerprints instead. A text is only kept once it comes back often, never if it looks like a secret. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Everything you didn’t have to type

309,023 Expansions ≈ 106 a day

⌘ 64,894 Via the palette ≈ 22 a day

14,003,634 Keystrokes saved ≈ 4,792 a day

Time saved

64 h 50 a year 518 h 39 so far Yearly projection at your pace, proofreading included.

Based on your typing speed: 90 words/min Most people: 40 wpm

The last 30 days

August 26168 expansions

Most used circuts

:+1:46,820 ×

pls31,240 ×

hhi19,605 ×

,mail12,470 ×

;sign8,940 ×

;book6,315 ×

Expansions per app

Arc71,240

Notion58,315

Slack44,902

Mail38,176

iA Writer21,583

Signal14,128

Claude9,647

Circut counts your expansions, the ones inserted from the palette, the keystrokes saved, and what that adds up to over a year at your own pace. Then your most-used circuts, the split by application, and the missed opportunities.

And the same view on a single circut: open it, and you see at a glance what it has done for you, over thirty days and all time.

Enough to see what deserves a better trigger, and what’s asleep. All of it is computed on your Mac, and none of it leaves.

A good circut is worth passing on

Sharing a circut takes one ⌘P: it fits in a link, or in a small file. Whoever receives it sees everything before importing: the triggers, the texts, and what would clash with what they already have.

The best circut ideas often come from someone else: a team’s stock phrase, the abbreviation a colleague worked out, the circuts a friend spent an afternoon tidying. Nothing to install to receive them, no account to share; the link carries the circuts with it, so it works for everyone.