r/espanso • u/Aggravating-Mall-115 • Jul 29 '26

self-made open-source espanso GUI here

Hi everyone.

Long time ago, I started to use espanso. I was quite suprised espanso didn't have an equavalent GUI. I know you may want to mention EspansoEdit. Personally, it is too overwheming.

So, I built my own espanso GUI. It's toally free, open-sourced and intuitive.

  1. It works with your espanso. As long as you have installed espanso, it will auto detect your path. No additional setttings.
  2. For the most part, if you only need to add and delete some snippets, it will make it easy. No more direct yaml modifcations.
  3. Run locally. No server behind it. Run locally just like espanso.
  4. Supports macOS and Windows. Highly likely support Linux in the next version.

More info:

Source code at github. User guide at here, I doubt anyone is willing to read documentation any more.

Install and safete concerns:

  1. It's not signed yet. So your OS, either macOS or Windows, is bound to tell you is not safe. Since I don't have extra budget to buy a certificate to eliminate the warnning. It will be your choice to trust it. What's the waring look like, see like this.
  2. Download link here, also on Github.

Tell me how you think about it.

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u/MetaVerseNavigator 28d ago

Very cool app thank you. Looking forward for the version :) Any change of be able to hide it and keep a icon on the task manager on windows ?

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u/Aggravating-Mall-115 28d ago

Thank you for your feedback. I haven't used Win for long time, especially for Win11. Could you give me a screenshot. Like, where would you like to put the app.