Local AI autocomplete, explained without hand-waving.
Typeahead runs a local writing model on your Mac, watches the active text field through macOS accessibility APIs, and shows inline suggestions while you type. The value is simple: help in the sentence, without turning your writing into a cloud workflow.
1. Local model
The suggestion engine runs on your Mac, not on someone else's servers.
2. Active field context
Typeahead reads the nearby text around your cursor so it can continue what you are already saying.
3. Inline acceptance
Suggestions appear inline and you stay in control of whether to accept them, word by word or all at once.
Architecture
The product works because three different layers line up.
A local model does the work
Typeahead downloads a small writing model to your Mac and runs suggestions on-device instead of sending text to a remote provider.
The help arrives inside the text field
Suggestions appear inline while you write. You accept with Tab, take one word at a time, or keep typing if you want a different direction.
It sees the active writing context, not your whole digital life
Typeahead reads the text immediately around your cursor in the active field so it can continue the sentence. It does not need your entire document history.
Privacy comes from the architecture
Your writing stays on your Mac. The only network activity is license activation and optional update checks.
Offline is normal
Once installed, Typeahead can keep suggesting with no internet connection. That is a property of the product, not a fallback mode.
What this means
Typeahead is not another AI destination. It is a local writing layer.
The local model explains privacy. The accessibility layer explains system-wide coverage. The inline suggestion model explains why it feels lighter than a full generation workflow.
What Typeahead does
- Runs a local completion model on your Mac
- Reads the active text field to generate a suggestion
- Shows inline ghost text while you type
- Works across many different Mac apps
What Typeahead does not need to do
- Ship your draft to a cloud model for every suggestion
- Move you into a separate AI workspace
- Store a long-term server-side history of what you write
- Stay online just to keep the core product usable
Buy once, own forever.
No subscriptions. No recurring fees. Pay once and Typeahead is yours for life.
Get early access to Typeahead with unlimited usage forever.
- Smart autocomplete in every Mac app
- Unlimited usage — no caps, no quotas
- All language models included
- Free updates for life
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Why one-time?
Subscriptions incentivize retention tricks. One-time purchases incentivize building something so good you tell people about it. We chose the second one.
How It Works
Questions about the technical shape of the product.
No. Suggestions are generated locally on your Mac. The only network activity is license activation and optional update checks.
Because that is how a Mac app can read the active text field and insert inline suggestions across many different apps. Without Accessibility access, system-wide autocomplete would not work.
Yes. After setup, the suggestion engine works offline because the model runs on your Mac.
No. It uses the nearby text context needed to generate a suggestion and does not build a persistent writing history.
No. Typeahead is a Mac app designed to help across browser fields, native apps, Electron apps, and other text surfaces on your machine.
The architecture is part of the product.
Typeahead feels different because it is built differently: local model, inline help, and cross-app usefulness on your Mac.
Local model. System-wide on Mac. One-time purchase.