Autocomplete that learns how you write.
Write a line a few times and Typeahead remembers it. Start it again and two words bring it back. No snippets to set up.
Write it, and it sticks.
It learns from what you already write. There’s nothing to set up.
“Let me know what works!” written three times: in Slack on Monday, in Mail on Wednesday, in Messages on Friday.
Write as you do.
Typeahead notices the lines you come back to, in Slack, Mail and Messages.
In What Typeahead Has Learned: “Let me know what works!”, Active, written 3 times.
It learns the line.
Write a phrase three times and it’s learned, on your Mac.
In Slack, “Let me” gets the suggestion “know what works!”.
Two words bring it back.
Start the line again and the rest is waiting in grey. Tab takes it.
Names spelled your way.
Names and terms your Mac doesn’t know get finished the way you spell them, once you’ve used them on more than one day.
See it. Forget it.
Every phrase it has learned is listed in Settings. Forget one and it won’t be learned again.
What it learns.
Stored on your Mac, and yours to forget.
Your go-to lines. Written three times, back after two words.
Your phrasing. Suggestions lean toward the way you write.
Never retype your address. Start it, and the rest is ready.
Old lines fade. Phrases you stop using fade out on their own.
Never learns secrets. Not passwords, codes, card numbers, links or email addresses.
Choose where it learns. Turn learning off for one app, or everywhere.
In detail.
How a line is learned, and what never is.
How a phrase is learned.
Typeahead counts the lines you write, on your Mac. Once you’ve written a phrase three times, it’s learned: start it again and, after two words, the rest appears in grey, like any other suggestion. A phrase you wrote in one app needs a few more writings before it’s offered in another, and phrases you stop using fade out. The lines you write most also lean other suggestions toward your phrasing, alongside the writing style you set for each app.
Not a text expander.
A text expander needs snippets and shortcuts set up ahead of time. Typeahead learns the lines you already write and offers them as you start them, with nothing to set up. For sentences it hasn’t seen before, the autocomplete still suggests the rest, in your Mac apps. More on text replacement or learned autocomplete.
What it never learns.
Nothing typed into password fields, search boxes or forms, and nothing from apps where Typeahead or learning is off. Text shaped like a secret is skipped: keys, one-time codes, card numbers. Links and email addresses aren’t learned either. Your address and other details are offered as you retype them and are never shown to the model.
Seeing and forgetting.
Settings › Learning lists every phrase, how often you’ve written it and where. Forget one and Typeahead won’t learn it again. You can forget one app’s learning, clear everything at once, or turn learning off for one app, the same way you turn Typeahead off for one app. More on that on the privacy page.
Common questions
Yes. Typeahead learns the phrases you write often, the names and terms you use, and lines like your address, all on your Mac. Write a line three times and it’s learned: start it again and two words bring the rest back. Your usual phrasing also nudges how other suggestions read.
Not quite. A text expander needs snippets and shortcuts you set up yourself. Typeahead learns the lines you already write and offers them as you start typing them, with nothing to set up. It also suggests the rest of sentences it hasn’t seen before.
Yes. Settings › Learning shows every phrase, how often you’ve written it and in which apps. Forget any phrase and it won’t be learned again, or clear everything Typeahead has learned at once.
No. Learning skips password fields, search boxes and forms, and anything shaped like a secret, such as keys, one-time codes and card numbers. Links and email addresses aren’t learned either.
On your Mac, in a local file. Clear Learned Data in Settings › Learning removes it, and your settings and writing styles stay as they are.
Yes. Turn off Learn from This App for that app in Settings › Apps, or untick it in the app’s submenu in Typeahead’s menu bar menu. Off, Typeahead neither learns from that app nor uses what it learned there.
Use both. A Mac Text Replacement expands a fixed shortcut you set up, which is perfect for exact boilerplate. Typeahead brings back the lines you actually write, after two words, with nothing to set up, and still suggests the rest of sentences you’ve never written before.
AI autocomplete for Mac.
The rest of your sentence, in grey, as you type.
Writing styles per app.
A style for each app, or write your own.
Follow-ups that go out.
The email after the call, and the nudge.
