Typeahead vs Cotypist: where Typeahead leads.

For most people, yes. Both suggest the rest of your sentence in your Mac apps, with the AI on your Mac. Typeahead runs on its own state-of-the-art engine, built to be fast and light, and adds a buy-once Lifetime plan, writing styles for each app on every plan, suggestions placed pixel-perfect at your cursor in each app’s own font, and a light footprint: under 500 MB of memory, no Screen Recording permission, and no telemetry.

Typeahead runs on its own proprietary engine, tuned for speed and efficiency on the Mac. Cotypist is subscription only, with its larger models and per-app instructions on the Pro plan. Typeahead can be bought once, and every plan includes every model and a writing style for each app. Cotypist asks for Screen Recording during setup to read the text around your cursor; Typeahead reads the text near your cursor through the macOS Accessibility API and needs no Screen Recording.

No. Cotypist’s plans are monthly or yearly subscriptions, and its pricing FAQ says subscriptions sustain its development. Typeahead has a Lifetime plan you pay for once, for all your Macs and every update. Yearly and monthly plans are there if you’d rather subscribe.

Cotypist’s privacy page says it asks for Screen Recording during first-run setup, recommended but optional, so it can read the text around the field with on-device text recognition. Typeahead needs Accessibility only. It reads the text near your cursor the way screen readers do and never records your screen.

Cotypist’s privacy page says anonymous usage statistics and crash reports are on by default, sent to Sentry and Google BigQuery, and you can turn them off in its settings. It says your writing is never part of it. Typeahead has no telemetry or analytics at all: its only network activity is license activation, a license check when the app starts, optional update checks and the one-time model download.

Typically about 300 to 350 MB in Activity Monitor, and under 500 MB while you type. Cotypist’s FAQ says it uses about 1 to 2.5 GB while active and recommends a Mac with 16 GB of memory. Typeahead runs on any Apple silicon Mac with 8 GB.

Yes. Typeahead works in any language you write in. Cotypist’s FAQ says it performs best in English.

Yes. Each suggestion is drawn right at your cursor, on the line, in the text field’s own font and size, and in its color, bold or italic, just lighter. Typeahead is tuned for the apps people write in most, like Slack, Outlook and Linear, and stays aligned when you zoom.

Yes. Typeahead learns the phrases you reuse, on your Mac, and lists every one with how often you’ve written it. You can forget any phrase, turn learning off for one app, and it never stores passwords or card numbers.

Yes. Typeahead needs 8 GB of memory and about 4 GB of free disk for its AI model, and recommends a model that suits your Mac. Cotypist’s FAQ recommends an M1 Pro or M2 with 16 GB.

Yes. The yearly and monthly plans start with a 14-day free trial on your Mac, and every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first payment. Or buy Lifetime once and own it.

Quit Cotypist so two autocomplete apps aren’t suggesting at once, then install Typeahead and grant Accessibility. Set a writing style for the apps you write in most, and Typeahead learns how you write as you go. If it isn’t for you, the 30-day money-back guarantee covers your first payment.