Typeahead 2.0 - Private AI autocomplete for every app on your Mac
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Typeahead 2.0 is private AI autocomplete for every app on your Mac, with writing styles per app, support for any language, and smarter context that adapts to how you work. It now feels more customizable and more useful every day, while staying lighter on memory and faster in the background. You also get private Insights to see your time saved. One-time $79 purchase, free updates, no subscription.
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Running locally instead of pinging a cloud API is the right call for soemthing reading every keystroke. Does it learn your writing style over time, or does each app get generic suggestions no matter what you've written before?
Typeahead
@christian_knaut Glad you appreciate the local angle! You get full control over how Typeahead writes through custom styles and instructions you set per app. On top of that, our context engine reads what you're actively writing to match your voice in the moment, so suggestions feel sharp and personal right away rather than after weeks of training. And it's fully private: no telemetry, no analytics, nothing ever leaves your Mac 🔒
the per-app writing style that switches automatically is the 2.0 headline — keeping Mail formal while Slack stays casual removes a whole layer of mental overhead. does it switch on app focus alone or does it read the window/thread title too?
Typeahead
@sabber_ahamed Great distinction! It switches on app focus. You can assign a style to each app and Typeahead loads it automatically as you move between them. The window or thread title doesn't trigger the switch, but it's read as context to keep suggestions relevant. So the app sets your voice and writing guidelines, and the context sharpens what it writes.
@samasante that's a smarter split than I expected — style from app focus, context from the thread title. so suggestions adapt to both what app you're in and what you're actually writing about. does the context window update as you type or only when you switch?
Typeahead
@sabber_ahamed Live, as you type. Every suggestion works from the current state of what you're writing, so the context stays fresh in the moment rather than freezing when you entered the app. Switching apps is just what swaps the style on top of that.
@samasante live context as you type solves the stale suggestion problem cleanly. does it handle long-form writing, or does the context window cap at some paragraph length?
AgentKey
Typeahead
@luki_notlowkey It already runs on local open-source models! Typeahead uses open models like Gemma and Qwen, fully on-device via llama.cpp, and you can pick between them using the built-in downloader. You can even bring your own GGUF. A few of our non-English speaking users have loaded models from Hugging Face tuned for their language and have been getting great results.
Typeahead
@tehreem_fatima5 You create writing styles, assign one per app and add custom instructions in your own words, and Typeahead switches automatically as you move around. It also reads the live context of what you're writing to keep things sharp, so you get the right voice from day one, no training required!
running local on-device is the right call for something that sits in every text field you type in, that's exactly the kind of tool where sending keystrokes to a server would be a dealbreaker for me. how big is the local model and does it noticeably eat into battery on a laptop over a full day of typing
Typeahead
@galdayan That's right! All on-device, no telemetry and your words never leave your Mac. We recommend Gemma 4, a 5GB one-time download, and we offer a few lighter options too depending on what works best for you.
It stays really light on battery because it only draws power in short bursts while generating, then drops to almost nothing at rest and unloads when you step away. Over a full day of typing it's on-demand rather than always running, so it's not something that'll drain your laptop.
@samasante that answers it, 5GB is a reasonable download and the on-demand power draw makes sense. gonna grab it and see how it feels for a week of real typing
Typeahead
@galdayan Great choice! Really excited to see how well it works for you over a week of real typing. Would love to hear your thoughts once you've given it a proper run. And if you have any specific feature requests, we're listening closely 👍
@samasante will do, appreciate the quick answers
Hello! The app looks great. I'm very excited about it. I couldn't find any information on how it compares to Cotypist. Is it intended to do the same? Any pros over Cotypist?
@samasante Any thoughts on this?
GrowMeOrganic
Does Typeahead learn from our writing over time, or is the behavior fixed based on instructions?
Love the new updates. I am curious how are you able to keep it on a LTD while other similar tools are charging for a subscription?
Good stuff, Hiten! Got this from Rohan's community and definitely keen on trying.
Nas.com
What are the 16 new languages that you now support?
Typeahead
@nuseir_yassin1 Typeahead writes in any language you type and switches automatically as you go, so suggestions aren't limited to a set list.
The app interface itself is currently translated into: English, Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Swedish, Indonesian, Danish, Norwegian, Hindi and Catalan.