Type faster, with less effort.
If typing is hard for you, Typeahead makes it faster and easier. It shows the rest of your sentence in grey at your cursor. Press Tab and it’s in.
A picture of Apple Mail. In a new message to Mireille Duchamp, after “Hi Mireille,” the words “Thank you for a lovely dinner on Saturday. Let’s do it” are typed, and Typeahead’s grey suggestion after the cursor reads “again at our place soon.” Pressing Tab would put it in.
One key, a whole phrase.
Tab takes the whole suggestion. The right arrow takes one word. Esc clears it, or keep typing and it goes.
A picture: “Sounds good, let’s catch” is typed in a message, Typeahead suggests “up on Friday.” after the cursor, and below it is a single Tab key.
Set it to suit your hands.
Every one of these is in Typeahead’s Settings, and you can change it any time.
Your own keys. Move Accept, Next Word or Dismiss to any key, or clear one.
No two-key chords. Tab, the right arrow and Esc each work on their own.
App by app. Give one app its own keys, or turn Typeahead off there.
Hold to keep going. Hold Tab or the right arrow and the words keep coming.
Short or long. Cap suggestions at 2, 4, 8 or 16 words.
Waits for a pause. Set Timing to Relaxed and suggestions wait until you stop.
Fewer suggestions. Set Frequency to Fewer to see only the most confident ones.
Pause until tomorrow. Or for 30 minutes or an hour, from the menu bar.
See the keystrokes you saved.
Settings › Insights counts the words you accepted and the keystrokes they saved, by week, month or all time.
A picture of Typeahead’s Insights: a bar chart of activity for each day of the week, with Week, Month and All Time tabs.
Suggestions you can see.
Pick a color from seven color-blind-safe presets or your own, set the opacity, or make it bold. It follows Increase Contrast.
A picture: “Thanks so much for” is typed and the suggestion “your help.” shows in orange, above a row of color swatches and an opacity slider.
Your phrases, on your Mac.
It learns the names and lines you reuse. See or forget any of them. What it learns stays on your Mac.
A picture: a line Typeahead has learned, “Let me know what works!”, marked with a check. Below it, “Let me” is typed in Slack and the rest of the line is suggested.
Typing help, in detail.
Typing with one hand
Every key Typeahead uses is a single press, and you can move each one to a key your hand reaches easily. More on one-handed typing on a Mac.
Read it before you take it
A suggestion is Typeahead’s guess at your next words. Nothing goes in until you accept it, so read it before you press Tab. If it isn’t what you meant, keep typing and it goes.
Your Mac’s own tools
Your Mac has its own accessibility tools, including Dictation, Voice Control, Switch Control and the Accessibility Keyboard. We haven’t tested Typeahead with them yet. Tell us if you rely on one.
Where it works
In Mac apps with a standard text field, like Apple Mail, Gmail, Slack, Messages and Apple Notes. See the Mac apps Typeahead supports and how Typeahead works.
Private, with no account
Typeahead never sends your writing to a server. Its suggestions are generated on your Mac, it works offline after setup, and a license key turns it on, with no account to make.
Common questions
Yes. Typeahead helps you write faster, with far less typing. It shows the rest of your sentence in grey at your cursor, and one press of Tab puts it in, so each suggestion you accept means fewer keystrokes. You choose which keys it uses, how long its suggestions are and when they appear. Tell us how you type and we'll help you set it up.
Yes. In Settings › Shortcuts you can move Accept Suggestion, Accept Next Word and Dismiss Suggestion to any key, clear one you don't want, or give one app its own keys. None of the defaults needs two keys pressed together.
Yes. Set Frequency to Fewer and only its most confident suggestions appear. Set Timing to Relaxed and they wait until you pause. You can also pause Typeahead for 30 minutes, an hour or until tomorrow, or turn it off in one app.
Today the suggestion is shown on screen only, and VoiceOver doesn't announce it. Tell us if you rely on VoiceOver.
Your Mac has its own tools for this, including Dictation, Voice Control, Switch Control and the Accessibility Keyboard. We haven't tested Typeahead with them yet. Tell us if you rely on one.
No. A license key turns Typeahead on, and there's no account to make.
Typeahead requires a Mac with macOS 14 or later.
If typing is hard, let’s talk.
Typeahead can make typing faster and easier for you. Tell us how you type, and we’ll help you set it up.
