Launched this week
Typeahead is the writing assistant that writes with you, not for you. It works in every text field on your Mac, helping you type faster and smarter with inline suggestions that appear as you write. It runs on a local AI model, works offline and keeps your writing on your device.
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?
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@caleb_criste Well said! "Helping the sentence catch up to the thought" is exactly what we're going for. Most tools go generic because they try to clean your writing up. Typeahead does the opposite, it builds on what you've already written, so it leans into your voice and quirks instead of smoothing them out. That's what keeps you sounding like you. A custom system prompt lets you steer it even further.
@samasante Yeah, I like that a lot. The thing I’m curious about is how Typeahead gets enough of “you” early on.
Does it let users add previous writing into some kind of memory or voice workspace? Like past posts, essays, transcripts, dictated thoughts, podcast clips turned into text, stuff like that?
I can imagine the first few uses are based mostly on what someone is writing in the moment, but the real magic would be when it starts understanding your patterns, weird phrases, pacing, and the way you naturally explain things.
Is there an ideal amount of writing someone should feed it before it starts feeling really accurate?
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@caleb_criste It picks up your tone and context from what you're already writing, so it's useful from the start with no setup. The ability to customize the system prompt gives you full control on top. You can shape the writing style however you like. A voice workspace that brings in your past writing would be a great addition, definitely one to explore!
@samasante That makes sense. I totally get wanting it to be frictionless so anyone can open it up and start writing right away. That’s usually what gets me excited about a tool too.
The thing I always think about is how the product grows with the user.
On day 1, I want the simple version. But by day 30, I want to feel like the product knows I’m not a day 1 user anymore. I’ve used writing tools before that were helpful at first, but then they kept making the same little mistakes with no clear way to teach or correct them.
It sounds like the custom prompt section helps solve a lot of that, which is smart. But I do think a voice workspace or past-writing import could add a deeper layer for the people who want it.
Appreciate your responses!
did you guys manage to make it work in terminal? say with claude code?
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@arag_agrawal Yes! We have full support for completions inside your Terminal, but it's currently disabled by default as Typeahead is optimized for natural language rather than bash commands. We could easily add a toggle to enable it though. Would that be useful for you?
It already works great in apps like Claude Code and Codex desktop, where you're writing prompts in plain language instead of raw commands.
An interesting app. I would like to see something like this for Windows.
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@sergei_popovichev Thanks Sergei! Running locally and optimized for Apple Silicon is a big part of what makes Typeahead so fast, so Mac was the natural place to start. We'd love to release a Windows version though, so hearing the demand helps make the case.
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.
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.
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@hunter_hastings Thanks Hunter, glad it's working well for you! And totally agree, typing and dictation put you in completely different headspaces. Good to hear it's earning a spot in the stack.
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.
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!