Typeahead

AI autocomplete for every app on your Mac

Productivity

Writing

Artificial Intelligence

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The local Gemma model on Metal is the choice I find most defensible here. Latency on an inline suggestion is everything. If the ghost text shows up half a beat late it stops feeling like the cursor knows what you are doing and starts feeling like an interruption. Curious how you tune the trigger: is the suggestion fired on every keystroke or do you gate it on pause length and intent signals from the surrounding text? Read your reply to Haotian on the augmentation bet. The part that resonates from shipping iOS apps is that the moment a user reads a generated sentence and edits it, the voice is already half lost, which is why inline ghost text wins over modal rewrite. The “writes with you, not for you” line should be on the homepage.

Just spent a working day using it. Works amazingly well. I write in three languages and can confirm from a day of use it works real smooth, even when switching languages mid-paragraph. Great work on what seems a solid product. Congratulations on the launch!

Is voice control planned? You open a text field, turn on voice control, say what to write and how (not dictation, but an instruction for the AI), and it writes it and inserts it into the field. That would be really, really cool!

Came across this through a post on X. I've tried STT products like Whispr but never really used them a lot because I am always around people while typing and do not prefer to speak into the system. This seems interesting, never heard of such an inline text assistant until now. I see that the pricing is very generous, but would always love to try out the product first. Maybe not a free tier but a limited time bound trial probably an hour or some 500-1000 words would also work.

Hi @samasante, I would love to give Typeahead a try. However, I couldn't find information about whether it works for other languages than English. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Awesome, I was actually searching for an app like this yesterday. I’ve already bought it, and I hope you keep the development going. Thanks!

Looks clean! ✨ I’ve always been weirdly interested in typing shortcuts, dictation, and anything that helps people get thoughts out faster before the idea disappears.

I like when it’s not just about “write this for me,” it’s more about helping the sentence catch up to the thought.

The thing I’m curious about is how you keep people sounding like themselves over time. A lot of AI writing tools make things cleaner, but sometimes cleaner also means more generic. Are you thinking about personalization in a way that preserves someone’s actual voice and quirks, or is the goal to keep it more lightweight and context-based?

very cool! did the idea start with building something local or did it start with the use case?

Does the app offer an option to limit the maximum length of text autocomplete? Is it possible to set a specific word count in the settings for how much the AI generates at a time?

The fact it's running a local model is a huge upsell for me. Excited to see how the product evolves - It works great, easy af to install. I do lots of dictation these days, but I find a totally different thought pattern when typing - this is a cool addition to the stack.

M1 air 8gb. chrome and cursor already hurt. does the model sit in ram all day or only spin up when i'm typing?

Really like the "writes with you, not for you" angle — that's the line I

keep coming back to when building my own AI writing tool. Most autocomplete

products try to take over and end up feeling pushy.

Two genuine questions :

1. How did you balance suggestion frequency vs friction? My biggest worry

with always-on autocomplete is that it interrupts flow when you actually

know what you want to type. Did you implement a "quiet mode" threshold or

is it always live?

2. The on-device model is a strong sell for privacy — what model size are

you running, and does performance scale with M-series Macs?

Bookmarked. Looks like one of the cleanest implementations I've seen in

this space.

The interesting edge case with system-wide autocomplete is how it handles context switching. does it know you're writing a Slack message versus a legal doc in Word and actually shift register accordingly, or is it one tone fits all? Also curious whether it reads the surrounding text in a field or just the last few words, because that gap is usually what makes suggestions feel off.

Really impressed by this. Congrats on the launch. I’m kind of amazed at how fast the suggestions show up. They feel instant, and more importantly they’re actually useful. A lot of AI writing tools are slow or get in the way, but this genuinely helps me type faster.

Nice launch. What got me is that it runs locally and works in every text field instead of pulling me into a separate chat window just to rewrite a sentence. The writes with you not for you angle feels right. Congrats Sam, followed you on X too.