How Typeahead works.

A local model on your Mac reads the active text field and suggests the rest of your sentence inline. Tab accepts.

How it works

Three layers make it work.

A small model, on your Mac

Typeahead downloads a compact writing model once. Every suggestion is generated on-device, not on someone else's servers.

It reads the active field

It sees the nearby text around your cursor, in whatever app you are writing in, and continues your sentence.

The same layer in every field

Gmail
Slack
Notion
Safari

Ghost text, one Tab away

Suggestions appear inline as ghost text. Press Tab to accept, take a word at a time, or keep typing.

Gmail
Writing sent to servers
0
On-device inference
100%
Once, forever
$79
Tab to accept
1 key

Architecture

What this design buys you.

Local model, local work

A small writing model downloads to your Mac and runs on-device instead of sending text to a remote provider.

Help inside the field

Suggestions appear inline while you write. Accept with Tab, take one word at a time, or keep typing.

Context, not surveillance

Typeahead reads the text around your cursor to continue the sentence. It does not need your document history.

Privacy comes from the architecture

The only network activity is license activation, optional update checks, and the one-time download of your AI model.

Offline is normal

Once installed, Typeahead can keep suggesting with no internet connection. That is a property of the product, not a fallback.

What this means

Not an AI destination. A 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
Early Access Pricing

Buy once, own forever.

No subscriptions. No recurring fees. Pay once and Typeahead is yours for life.

$79

Get early access to Typeahead with unlimited usage forever.

Launch Day Special Offer
  • 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, optional update checks, and the one-time download of your AI model.

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 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.