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Cotypist
Local AI Autocomplete in your voice, anywhere on your Mac
4.4•27 reviews•286 followers
Local AI Autocomplete in your voice, anywhere on your Mac
4.4•27 reviews•286 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.
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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.
Love this app on my personal computer. However, my work computer is a Mac with Intel chip and I'm disappointed that Cotypist isn't supported. Really hoping you'll consider a universal release or one that doesn't require silicon.
@adam_tracht Thank you for the feedback! Cotypist's local AI models make heavy use of the high memory bandwidth afforded by Apple Silicon; most Intel Macs simply don’t have enough bandwidth to deliver an acceptable experience. So I have decided not to focus on Intel support at the moment.
It has been a great product so far. It’s quite unfortunate that they are limiting their early believers now with the paid plans. People will just go somewhere else or build their own or someone will make an OSS one and monetize another way. Eventually Apple / Windows will just include this as a native feature, they haven’t because not all their devices are compatible yet, but they will. Good luck on the journey forward and I hope that us the early users that liked it becuse it was free continue to stick around, otherwise we’ll feel unfair / used. Like we were writing tickets and helping the product and got nothing back and now we have to pay, when we can have that value for free. The thing is, the amount of value (as compared to alternatives) you create and the amount value you want to capture are off. You could sell it like those niche OSX Apps where they sell a lifetime license for less than 50, and thats already a lot.
I've been a beta tester for Cotypist for a few months, and I'm now a subscriber. It's beautifully executed and works great. The elevator pitch ("autocomplete, but with AI!" -- my words, not the dev's) really doesn't do it justice.
There are a few things about Cotypist that aren't obvious until you actually use it for a while. First, it works pretty much everywhere you can type text on your Mac. That includes browsers, editors, email clients, etc. It's always there, always unobtrusive, always seamless. Second, it’s not just super-autocomplete. It's a full-fledged AI model that runs locally on your Mac and maintains context. I work on a lot of different projects, and Cotypist is eerily good at switching around with me. It remembers things. It reads your screen (if you allow that, which I highly recommend) and adapts itself to your workflow.
It's not a writing assistant, although I suppose you can use it that way. It doesn't suggest what it thinks you should type so much as it infers what you're actually doing and tries to facilitate what you were going to type anyway.
This is the future of AI: unobtrusive, lightning-fast, and not trying too hard to take over or "help."
It's a wonderful utility. I've been using it since the fall of 2024 and have been really impressed by its unobtrusive nature. It does a wonderful job, especially with how swift and helpful its autocomplete suggestions are.
It really does a great job of helping users maintain their flow when composing text for any purpose. It's a wonderful product.
I've long anticipated that it might eventually become a paid tool. I was somewhat prepared for that, but I must admit I was taken aback by the pricing and subscription model.
In my heart of hearts, I was hoping for a lifetime purchase option. Subscription-zilla packages are overwhelming these days, and I struggle to justify adding more of them. I already have too many subscriptions and actively cutting back. I would much rather pay a reasonable one-time price to support the product.
That said, I do hope this option emerges in the very- [very near] future.
Either way, I want to extend my congratulations. This is a fine product—no dispute about that. Best of luck.
I was an early user of Cotypist and, for a while, one of its biggest advocates. I recommended it to friends and colleagues because I genuinely thought the product had a lot of potential.
The product itself is excellent. The autocomplete quality is impressive, the local-first approach is appealing, and it's clear a lot of engineering effort went into building it.
My issue has never been with the product. It's with the pricing and the response to feedback.
I'm not looking for free software. I'm happy to pay for good products and was fully prepared to pay for Cotypist. What I struggle with is paying SaaS-level subscription pricing for a tool that primarily runs on my own hardware. Based on the Product Hunt comments, Reddit discussions, and conversations I've had with other users, many early adopters seem to feel the same way.
What disappointed me most was the apparent unwillingness to seriously consider that feedback. When multiple early supporters raise the same concern, the response should not be to explain why the free tier is good enough for them. Many of us were interested in the paid features and were willing to pay. We simply disagreed with the pricing strategy.
At this point, I've stopped recommending Cotypist and have already started moving to alternative solutions that offer a better balance of value, flexibility, and ownership.
It's unfortunate because I think the product had the potential to build a very loyal user base. Instead, the pricing strategy seems to be pushing many of its earliest supporters toward competing products.
Great product. Wrong pricing. Wrong response to customer feedback.