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Gloss - Intelligent Text Expansion

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With the looming release of macOS 27 I am happy to announce a MAJOR update of Gloss which now includes on device AI integration and significant performance improvements. Gloss expands your shortcuts into text, emoji, dates, and scripts, everywhere on your Mac.

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If you use Slack, Discord and even Reddit, you're probably used to typing :thumbsup: or :sob: and having it just turn into the emoji. Then you switch to any other app on your Mac and that doesn't work anymore. You're back to Ctrl+Cmd+Space (or emoji button), scrolling through the emoji picker, searching, clicking. It's a tiny thing but it completely breaks your flow, especially when you do it dozens of times a day. That was the main itch for me. I wanted emoji short-codes everywhere on macOS, not just in apps that happen to support them. But once I started building that, I realised the same idea works for everything I repeatedly type. Email sign-offs, date strings in specific formats, code snippets, boilerplate responses.