Save text snippets and insert them anywhere — right-click menu, side panel, or keyboard shortcut.
Users
11
+2 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#197K
#165K among extensions
Version
1.0.4
updated 1 Jul 2026
Users
monthly, 5 months
Latest, 21 Oct 2026:11 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 5 months
Latest, 21 Oct 2026:0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.
About InstaType — Text Snippets
InstaType is a fast, private text snippet manager for Chrome. Save the
phrases, signatures, addresses and code blocks you type over and over,
then paste them anywhere on the web in two clicks — or with a single
keyboard shortcut.
━━━ How it works ━━━
• Right-click on any input field → InstaType menu → pick a snippet.
• Or focus an input and press the shortcut (default: Alt+Shift+T) to
open a quick picker with search and arrow-key navigation.
• Or open the side panel to browse, edit and organize your library.
━━━ Smart scopes ━━━
Mark a snippet as Global to make it available everywhere, or scope it
to a single domain. The right-click menu auto-filters to show only
what's relevant for the page you're on — your work signatures don't
clutter your personal email, your code snippets stay on GitHub.
━━━ Works in any input ━━━
• Plain text inputs and textareas (forms, search boxes, comments)
• Rich-text and contenteditable editors, including modern ones that
manage their own input, so text lands correctly
• Multi-line snippets keep their line breaks intact
━━━ Copy to use anywhere ━━━
Every snippet has a one-click Copy button in the side panel — put it on
your clipboard and paste it into desktop apps, other browsers, or
anywhere outside the web.
━━━ Private by design ━━━
Everything is stored locally in your browser using chrome.storage.local.
No accounts. No servers. No analytics. No telemetry. Nothing leaves your
device — not even anonymized.
Your active tab's domain is read in real time (so the menu can filter
by site) but never stored or transmitted.
━━━ Portable ━━━
• Export your library as JSON, anytime.
• Import on another device to restore.
• Filter the export: everything, only globals, or only the current site.
━━━ Multilingual ━━━
UI in English, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish. Follows your system
language by default; switch any time from the side panel menu.
━━━ Designed for daily use ━━━
A warm cream interface with serif headlines and monospace text where
it counts. Friendly, calm, fast. Built to disappear when you're not
using it and snap to attention when you are.
━━━ Open & honest ━━━
InstaType is independent software. It will never be ad-supported,
will never require an account, and will never send your data anywhere.