Will it work on every site that blocks paste?

No. It works where the field accepts ordinary typed input. Some sites guard their fields in ways Typist does not attempt to work around, and there it will not help.

Can it fill a password, card number or verification code?

No. Typist never types into password, payment, verification or other protected fields, whatever the page.

Will it move to the next field or press Submit?

No. It types into the one field you focused and does nothing else — no clicks, no navigating, no tabbing onwards. Auto typer for web forms covers how that plays out on a longer form.

Is my text sent anywhere?

The text in the panel stays on your device and goes only to the page you are typing into. A snippet you choose to save is the exception, stored so it can sync. See the privacy page.

Paste-blocked fields

Type into text fields that block paste

Some web forms switch off paste in ordinary text boxes. When the text you need is already written, that leaves you keying it in again by hand. Typist types it in for you instead, in the fields where that works.

Why some fields refuse a paste

Sites block paste for their own reasons: a "confirm your email" box that wants the address typed twice, a support form that would rather not receive pasted formatting, a web app whose editor handles a pasted block badly, a long application form whose designers never expected anyone to paste. Whatever the reason, the effect is the same. Ctrl+V does nothing, and a paragraph you already wrote has to be typed out again.

Typist enters text as keyboard input, one character at a time, rather than through the clipboard. To a field that only blocks the paste action, that input looks like ordinary typing, so in many of these fields it works. In some it will not, and it is worth being plain about which.

What Typist will not do

Typist never types into password fields, payment or card fields, verification-code fields, or other protected inputs. That is a fixed rule in the extension, not a setting. It also makes no attempt to get around a site that guards its fields in other ways, and on some pages it simply will not work. Treat it as a tool that often helps with a paste-blocked text box, not one that works everywhere.

How to do it

Prepare the text in the panel. Open the Typist side panel and sign in with Google, which is required before typing. The panel itself accepts a paste, so copy your text in and check the spelling there — it is easier than fixing it in the field afterwards.
Click into the field that refused the paste. Typist types into the one field you have focused. If what you clicked is not an editable field, it says so and asks you to click into a text field.
Pick a speed. For a short answer, 100 to 150 words per minute is fine. If the form checks input as you type — a character counter, live validation — come down to around 60 so it keeps up.
Press Start and watch the first line arrive. If nothing appears, or characters go missing, stop the run. That field is one Typist cannot work with, and typing by hand is the answer there.
Check the field before you submit. Typist types; it never clicks a button or submits a form. That step is always yours.

Fields that expect a format

Typist types exactly the characters you give it, so the text in the panel has to match what the field expects, spaces included. Keep line breaks out of text meant for a single-line box: on many forms an Enter keypress submits the form. For a field that wants the same value twice, such as an email confirmation, run the same text into each box in turn — one run per field.

If you fill in the same answer often, save it as a snippet: a titled block of text stored on your account and synced to your other signed-in devices. Free accounts keep three. How snippets work.

What it costs

Every run counts against the daily allowance when you press Start: 300 words a day on the free plan, reset at 00:00 UTC, and unlimited on Pro at $4.99 a month. Short form answers barely dent the free allowance. The pricing page has the detail.

Add Typist to Chrome

Free plan: 300 words a day. A Google sign-in is required before typing.

Questions

Will it work on every site that blocks paste?: No. It works where the field accepts ordinary typed input. Some sites guard their fields in ways Typist does not attempt to work around, and there it will not help.
Can it fill a password, card number or verification code?: No. Typist never types into password, payment, verification or other protected fields, whatever the page.
Will it move to the next field or press Submit?: No. It types into the one field you focused and does nothing else — no clicks, no navigating, no tabbing onwards. Auto typer for web forms covers how that plays out on a longer form.
Is my text sent anywhere?: The text in the panel stays on your device and goes only to the page you are typing into. A snippet you choose to save is the exception, stored so it can sync. See the privacy page.

The general walkthrough is on how to type text automatically. If the field accepts a paste after all, pasting is usually faster — auto typer vs copy-paste explains when.