Private AI autocomplete, by design.
Typeahead never sends your writing to a server. Suggestions are made on your Mac, and there’s no account to make.
You stay in charge.
See what it learned, skip the account, and pause it anytime.
See what it learned.
Forget any phrase with one click.
No account.
A license key is all it takes.
Pause anytime.
For 30 minutes, an hour or until tomorrow.
What it reads.
The window you’re typing in, and what you just copied if you turn that on. Both are read on your Mac.
How it compares.
Your writing, with Typeahead and with the AI tools you know.
| Question | Typeahead | ChatGPT | Grammarly | Notion AI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never sends your writing to a server | ||||
| Never sends your writing to a server | Yes | No | No | No |
| Suggestions generated on your Mac | ||||
| Suggestions generated on your Mac | Yes | No | No | No |
| AI suggestions work offline after setup | ||||
| AI suggestions work offline after setup | Yes | No | No | No |
| No account required | ||||
| No account required | Yes | Only on the web, signed out | No | No |
| Finishes your sentence as you type, across your Mac apps | ||||
| Finishes your sentence as you type, across your Mac apps | Yes | No | No | No |
An autocomplete sees every keystroke. Choose one you can trust.
Typeahead has no telemetry and no analytics.
A blue padlock over a sign-in form. As the password is typed, the padlock closes. No suggestion follows the caret.
Knows when to stay quiet.
It steps aside in password fields.
A green Wi-Fi icon switches off. In Notes, a journal entry, “Cabin, day two”: “No signal, so we played board games” gets the suggestion “by the fire.”
Wi-Fi off? Still writing.
Works offline after setup.
A purple chip icon over a picker wheel rolling through Gemma, Qwen, Mistral, Llama and your own model.
Your model, your call.
Built in, or bring your own.
In detail.
What Typeahead reads, what it keeps, and where.
What it reads.
Typeahead reads text through the macOS Accessibility API, the same one screen readers use: the words around your cursor and, while window context is on (it is by default), the visible text of the window you’re typing in. Clipboard context, which uses up to 400 characters of what you just copied, stays off until you turn it on, and skips items from password managers. Both can be set per app. More on screen context.
What it learns, and where it keeps it.
Lines you write often, and the names and terms you use, are learned and stored on your Mac. It never learns passwords, codes, card numbers, web addresses or email addresses. You can see each phrase it learned and forget it, and a forgotten phrase isn’t learned again. More on how learning works.
Where it stays off.
Password fields are off by design, and so are password managers, wallets, finance apps and Finder. You can switch it off for any single app from the menu bar, or pause it for a while. The compatibility page lists what’s on and off.
What it doesn’t collect.
There’s no account, and the app has no analytics, crash reporting or telemetry. Insights, the usage stats in Settings, counts words and keystrokes on your Mac and never records what you wrote.
Signed, notarized, and accountable.
An app that reads what you type should come from someone you can hold to account. Typeahead is a signed, notarized Mac app made by Noats Inc., it asks only for Accessibility (no Screen Recording), and the list of what it sends is short enough to check. Writing for clients or patients? See Typeahead for lawyers and for doctors.
Checking it yourself.
Run a network monitor such as Little Snitch while you type and see what Typeahead connects to. The answers below list everything it uses the network for. The model itself is covered on the local AI page.
Common questions
Yes. Typeahead processes your writing on your Mac: the model that makes suggestions runs there, and what it learns is stored there. There’s no account and no analytics in the app. Typeahead goes online only to check your license, look for updates and download your AI model, and none of those requests include anything you write.
Run a network monitor like Little Snitch while you type. You won’t see Typeahead send your writing anywhere, only the license, update and model traffic listed above. Turning off Wi-Fi shows the other half: after setup, suggestions keep coming, because they’re generated on your Mac.
Accessibility lets an app read the text on screen and type into fields; it’s the permission screen readers use, so only give it to apps you trust. Typeahead uses it to read the text near your cursor and the window you’re typing in, and to show its suggestion. It needs no Screen Recording permission, stays out of password fields, and processes what it reads on your Mac.
Your license key, with an ID for your Mac and its name, so the license knows which Mac it’s on. None of your writing goes with it.
No. The app has no analytics, crash reporting or telemetry. Insights, the usage stats in Settings, counts words and keystrokes on your Mac and never records what you wrote.
Here is what happens to your writing: Typeahead processes it on your Mac, doesn’t send it to our servers or anyone else’s, and no one at Typeahead sees it. The email or record you type it into still goes wherever that app sends it. Whether that meets your firm’s or practice’s rules is a question for your compliance team, so check with them before you rely on it.
