Gloss: Type Less. Say More

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. Gloss is a native macOS text expander. You type a short trigger (like :skull: or //date) and it instantly replaces it with whatever you've configured. Plain text, emoji, dynamic values like the current date or clipboard contents, or even small JavaScript. It ships with a bundled emoji short-codes pack so you get the Slack/Discord-style :name: behaviour system-wide, right out of the box. It sits in your menu bar, uses barely any resources, and doesn't phone home.