Karabiner-Elements VS espanso

Compare Karabiner-Elements vs espanso and see what are their differences.

Karabiner-Elements

Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later. (by pqrs-org)
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Karabiner-Elements espanso
36 231
17,920 9,141
1.6% 3.4%
9.7 8.5
1 day ago 4 days ago
C++ Rust
The Unlicense GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Karabiner-Elements

Posts with mentions or reviews of Karabiner-Elements. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-13.

espanso

Posts with mentions or reviews of espanso. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.
  • You don't have to type faster to type faster
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2024
    If you want a standalone cross platform text expander I currently enjoy using Espanso[1]

    [1]: https://espanso.org/

  • Espanso: Because Who Actually Likes Typing Out Their Emails?
    1 project | dev.to | 1 Apr 2024
    # espanso match file # For a complete introduction, visit the official docs at: https://espanso.org/docs/ # You can use this file to define the base matches (aka snippets) # that will be available in every application when using espanso. # Matches are substitution rules: when you type the "trigger" string # it gets replaced by the "replace" string. matches: # signatures - trigger: ";n" replace: "Nikola" - trigger: ";b" replace: "Brežnjak" - trigger: ";li" replace: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikola-bre%C5%BEnjak-892b9a24/" - trigger: ";sn" replace: "Kind regards,\nNikola Brežnjak\nhttp://www.nikola-breznjak.com/blog" - trigger: ";web" replace: "http://www.nikola-breznjak.com/" - trigger: ";em" replace: "[email protected]" ## git - trigger: ";ga" replace: "git add ." - trigger: ";gb" replace: "git branch" - trigger: ";gc" replace: "git commit -m " - trigger: ";gd" replace: "git diff --color " - trigger: ";gf" replace: "git fetch --all" - trigger: ";gi" replace: "find . -name '.DS_Store' -type f -delete" - trigger: ";gl" replace: "git log" - trigger: ";gp" replace: "git push origin main" - trigger: ";gs" replace: "git status" - trigger: ";gt" replace: "git remote -v" - trigger: ";gu" replace: "git pull origin main" ## blog - trigger: ";bimp" replace: "https://nikola-breznjak.com/blog/books/want-improve-read-books/" - trigger: ";brem" replace: "https://nikola-breznjak.com/blog/miscellaneou/make-remote-developer/" ## emojis - trigger: ";eew" replace: "⚠️" - trigger: ";eet" replace: "🤔" - trigger: ";eeb" replace: "💰" - trigger: ";eem" replace: "💪" - trigger: ";eetm" replace: "™" - trigger: ";eeh" replace: "❤️" - trigger: ";eeu" replace: "👍" - trigger: ";eep" replace: "🙏" - trigger: ";eef" replace: "🤦" - trigger: ";ees" replace: "🙂" - trigger: ";eeg" replace: "😎" - trigger: ";eev" replace: "👋" - trigger: ";eel" replace: "😂" - trigger: ";eec" replace: "👏" - trigger: ";eeo" replace: "✅" - trigger: ";eer" replace: "🚀" - trigger: ";eex" replace: "⏭️" ## replies - trigger: ";ryw" replace: "You’re welcome 👍" - trigger: ";rlmk" replace: "Please let me know 👍" - trigger: ";rbtw" replace: "Btw, how are things on your end?" - trigger: ";rt" replace: "Thank you! 👍" ## misc - trigger: ";fd" replace: "firebase deploy" - trigger: ";wed" replace: "Happy Wednesday (a dy on which, historically, most people wed on - thus: Wed nes day). Not really, but it would be a fun fact actually 🙂" - trigger: ";cl" replace: "console.log(" - trigger: ";se" replace: "select * from " - trigger: ";o" replace: "open ." - trigger: ";im" replace: "![]({{clipb}})" vars: - name: "clipb" type: "clipboard" - trigger: ";ch" replace: "chrome://history" - trigger: ";;c" replace: "code ."
  • Polish characters and formatting issues on MacOS
    1 project | /r/espanso | 8 Dec 2023
  • Is there global autocorrect for linux?
    4 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 7 Dec 2023
  • Add-on that makes it possible to paste one sentence?
    1 project | /r/firefox | 5 Dec 2023
    This should work for you. Free, cross-platform and works everywhere not just the browser. https://espanso.org/
  • Espanso: Open-source, privacy-first, cross-platform and extensible text expander
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2023
  • Bad Emacs Defaults
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
    Huh, didn't know abbrev had that limitation (wonder why?). Gave it a go in espanso (https://espanso.org/), and it does work there.
  • Show HN: I automated 1/2 of my typing
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2023
    I use a tool called "Espanso" to accomplish something similar at work. It only runs locally, so no weird data scraping issues to worry about. And it's easy to update as things changes becauase everything lives in a simple yml file.

    https://espanso.org/

    It can do simple text replacement, so I have words, phrases, and sentences I use frequently compressed into a few keyboard clicks. It can also grab what is in your clipboard, so that can be incorporated into responses, which is simple but very handy.

    A simple text replacement looks like this in the yaml file:

  • Cannot get espanso to work on Debian 12 (stable)
    1 project | /r/espanso | 27 Aug 2023
  • [DEV] Open source text expander - Bugs fixed, new updates, now available on IzzyOnDroid - might be worth trying again :D
    1 project | /r/androidapps | 13 Jul 2023
    If you don't know what a text expander is, see: https://espanso.org

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Karabiner-Elements and espanso you can also consider the following projects:

Mos - 一个用于在 macOS 上平滑你的鼠标滚动效果或单独设置滚动方向的小工具, 让你的滚轮爽如触控板 | A lightweight tool used to smooth scrolling and set scroll direction independently for your mouse on macOS

AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.

yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

AutoKey - AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.

stats - macOS system monitor in your menu bar

rofimoji - Emoji, unicode and general character picker for rofi and rofi-likes

RDM - Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions

svntogit-packages - Automatic import of svn 'packages' repo (read-only mirror)

iTerm2 - iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

obsidian-text-expander - Text Expander plugin for Obsidian

Hackintool - The Swiss army knife of vanilla Hackintoshing

vim-clutch - A hardware pedal for improved text editing in Vim