Repetitive entry
Cut down repetitive browser data entry
Some text you write once. Some text you write four hundred times. Typist is for the second kind: save the block, then put it into whatever field needs it without typing it out again.
The text you have already written this week
Most repetitive browser work is not complicated, it is just relentless. The disclosure paragraph at the bottom of every listing. The three-sentence reply to the support question that arrives every day. The product description skeleton in the CMS, the escalation note in the admin panel. None of it is hard to write. It is hard to write for the hundredth time.
The usual workaround is a document full of blocks you scroll through and copy from, which works until you have thirty of them, or until the document is on the other laptop. Typist replaces it with something that lives next to the browser field itself.
Saved snippets are the point of this page
A snippet is a titled block of text saved to your account. Give it a name you will recognise in a hurry — "refund policy para", "onboarding reply", "office address block" — and it is there in the side panel whenever you need it. Load one, click the field on the page, press Start, and it goes in.
Snippets sync to your other signed-in devices, which is the part that matters if you work across a laptop and a desktop. Save the block once and it is on the others.
- Free accounts keep three snippets. Enough to hold the two or three blocks you genuinely use daily.
- Pro keeps as many as you like for $4.99 a month, cancellable at any time.
- Editing a snippet you own never counts against the limit. Rewording the reply is free; only adding a new one uses a slot.
- Nothing is lost on a downgrade. If a Pro subscription ends, the snippets you saved stay on the account and keep syncing. You simply cannot add a new one until you are back under three.
The fuller account is on the saved typing snippets page, and the pricing page has the plan detail.
Set the speed to match the field
Speed runs from 20 to 400 words per minute, with presets at 40, 60, 100, 150, 250 and 400 and a default of 60. For day-to-day entry, faster is usually right: the fast steady mode runs roughly eight times quicker than the varied pace and takes no pauses at punctuation, which suits a block you are not reading as it arrives.
The varied pace, with its short pauses at punctuation, is the better choice when a field is doing work behind the scenes as you type — an autosaving CMS field, a rich-text editor reformatting as it goes. If a run comes out garbled in a particular field, dropping the speed is the first thing to try. More in typing speed control.
Every run can be paused and resumed from where it stopped, or stopped outright, and a progress indicator shows how far through it is.
Free plan: 300 words a day, reset at 00:00 UTC. A Google sign-in is required before typing.
One field at a time — and why that is the honest description
Typist types into a single field: the one you have focused. It does not click buttons, does not move between fields, does not open tabs or navigate, and never presses submit. A run puts your text into the box you chose and then it is finished. If the next field needs text too, you click that field and start another run.
For a lot of repetitive work that is the right shape. The tedious part is usually one long field — the description, the reply body, the notes box — surrounded by short ones you can fill in a second.
But if what you need is a script that opens a page, fills six fields, ticks a box and submits, Typist is the wrong tool and will frustrate you. That is a job for browser automation, and the difference is written up plainly on browser automation vs auto typer.
Where it works
Editable browser fields: text boxes, text areas, rich-text editors, and Google Docs documents, which the extension supports directly. If you press Start while something else is focused, the run does not begin and the panel asks you to click into a text field. The auto typer for web forms page covers what that means for form fields specifically.
- Are my saved snippets private?
- A snippet's title and text are stored on our server so they can sync to your devices — that is the one deliberate exception to text staying on your machine. Text you only paste into the panel is never sent to us. Do not save anything you would not want stored; the privacy page sets out exactly what we hold.
- How many words does a day of this cost?
- The free plan allows 300 words a day, reset at 00:00 UTC. Words count against the day the moment you press Start, and a run you stop early still spends what it reserved.
- Is this a text expander?
- Not quite — there is no trigger abbreviation that fires as you type. You pick a snippet and press Start. Text expander vs auto typer compares the two properly.
Start at the auto typer for Chrome overview if you want the whole picture.