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Cotypist
Local AI Autocomplete in your voice, anywhere on your Mac
4.5•22 reviews•242 followers
Local AI Autocomplete in your voice, anywhere on your Mac
4.5•22 reviews•242 followers
Cotypist is smart autocomplete for the Mac apps you already write in: Mail, Slack, Notes, docs, even AI prompts. Press Tab when a suggestion fits, or keep typing and watch it update in real time. Runs locally on your Mac. No cloud, no API calls.
@daniel_a_a Hi Daniel. I have been using your application for some weeks now and I really like and RECOMMEND it! Cheers
@skraetschi Hi Andreas, thank you for the endorsement, I really appreciate it!
@daniel_a_a I’ve been using this for a while, since snazzylabs mentioned it on his video. I love it!
@daniel_a_a Hi Daniel, been using this for a month and I love it. I am sorry but i think Apple should sherlock this app (its that good!). Congratulations on the launch, wrote a few words about it here:https://volatileinputs.com/2026/05/cotypist-is-the-typing-tool-apple-should-have-built/
@imthaz Thank you for the link! Cotypist's AI models do require substantial system resources, so my hope is that Apple won’t sherlock Cotypist because they need to conserve these resources.
@daniel_a_a I'm a huge fan of Cotypist! I use Apple Voice Control to type most of the time due to my disability (born without hands) so I would love to talk to you about some ideas I have for getting them to work together even better shoot me an email ryan [at] hudsonperalta [dot] com
The “words still sound like you” line is the hard part, especially if you ever add longer completions. Short autocomplete can stay close to the user’s rhythm because it has a narrow job; paragraph-length completion can start making stronger choices about structure, confidence, and tone.
One feature I’d be curious about is a lightweight boundary between “continue my sentence” and “draft the next thought.” Both are useful, but they have different voice risks. For writers/marketers/support teams, that distinction might matter more than raw completion length.
@jim_jeffers From user feedback, Cotypist has uses for both “continue my sentence” and “help me brainstorm.” Some just use it to save themselves from typing words they would have typed anyway, while others also appreciate its suggestions as a means for reducing writer’s block.
The program is very good, but the price is unacceptable. I am switching to another solution.
@slipio Thank you for the feedback! Cotypist's paid plans are for those who derive the most value from it. I hope that Cotypist's free plan will be sufficient for about 80 % of users while still providing a great experience.
@daniel_a_a I write a lot and I need good solutions. Supercomplete costs a one-time fee of $59.99 and offers similar capabilities. See you when Cotypist is cheaper. Which doesn't change the fact that Cotypist is great but it's not worth $108 a year.
@slipio Supercomplete was launched last year as a clone of Cotypist, but abandoned after just two months, leaving its customers stranded. Cotypist has already been in development for two years and subscriptions are what will keep it in active development for much longer. I'd also argue that Cotypist's completions even on the free (let alone the $72) plan are much better than Supercomplete’s.
@daniel_a_a Maybe you're right that Supercomplete is worse, I don't know, I'll find out for myself.
The prototype of the solution is lightkey running on Windows. I used it in Word running via Parallels Desktop on macOS. In the worst-case scenario, I'll go back to that solution. The annual subscription there is much lower.
@slipio Especially since it is LOCAL AI on YOUR machine. He has ZERO running costs that would excuse these prices. I disabled autoupdate, backed up the dmg and blocked all outgoing connections cotypist tries to make. It works fine. Nobody needs to update to a launch version just to be presented with yet another subscription prompt.
Hi Daniel,
Michele from Italy here. I’ve been using Cotypist for a couple of days now, and I am really enjoying it; before Cotypist I was using a lot Cursor because of its terrific autocomplete (please note that I am not a coder, so I only use it for writing documents, emails, etc.) but now finally I can have that anywhere on my Mac.
I also agree with the other comments that this is what autocomplete should be, so thank you for this gift to the community and keep up the good work!
One suggestion on the product: it would be great to introduce some sort of "long completion" mode, like the one in Cursor, where it can predict whole paragraphs to help you write entire documents.
A comment on pricing: I agree with some comments that pricing can be perceived as a bit high "just for autocomplete", so here are my suggestions:
introduce a lower price tier, like 3/month
introduce a lifetime option
Thank you!
Michele
Congratulations, Daniel! Cotypist is what we always wished autocorrect would grow up to be. The early alpha version of over eagerness is gone and now I just tab away. A truly nano enhancement would be if i could rely on it to uppercase the first person singular pronoun, I.
@technocrat Thank you for the endorsement, Richard! I appreciate your support throughout the early access period and am glad to hear that the improvements I made have made a difference for you.
Also, thank you for the suggestion with capitalizing "I"! I think capitalizing "I" and other nouns would be a great addition to Cotypist's existing typo autocorrect feature; I've made a note to add it once the dust has settled after the launch. I'll still need to think about whether to do the capitalization automatically or only when you confirm by pressing Tab; so far, I’ve been hesitant to make any edits to one’s writing without confirmation. Food for thought!
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Does it learn from your writing over time, and can you exclude certain apps or fields like passwords?
@thamibenjelloun Yes! Cotypist will learn from your writing over time; you can expect it to sound like you after just a few days of use. You can also disable Cotypist on certain apps and websites, and password fields will automatically be excluded from both suggestions and learning.
Cotypist is undoubtedly a great tool and it has worked flawlessly for me ever since I installed it. The developer obviously knows what he's doing. And I'm actually surprised how it predicts words based on just what's on my screen (and clipboard). Excellent work!
But I think the pricing is off. For simplicity sake, let's take a monthly cost of $9. Based in my usage over the past six weeks, the app saves me from typing an average of 150 words per day (see below). That brings the average cost per word to about 0.2 cents. I think that is a very high price to pay for auto-complete.
You can increase the price by adding about 25% for paying monthly and/or another 20-25% for VAT, or you can reduce the price by about 33% by choosing the Plus instead of the Pro plan (which removes some of the very features that make the app useful). But either way, the fact that the cost for a single word can be expressed in cents (in times where the cost for LLM APIs are given per million tokens) is absurd in my opinion. And given that there is no server-side processing, I think it would be fair to offer a lifetime option (aka perpetual license).
(Yes, I understand that we are paying for the developer’s time and effort, not for the words the app produces. I am just taking the user’s perspective here, simply asking: what am I paying and what am I getting? I'd be happy to see the developer's math regarding expected revenue per hour of work, to see if that substantially changes the picture, but for now, I think the pricing is unreasonable.)