the gesture

Inline ghost text autocomplete — press Tab to accept

As you type, the rest of your sentence appears in grey, right at the caret. Press Tab and it's yours. Keep typing and it disappears. That's the whole interaction.

The interaction

MacAutocomplete reads the text you've written so far and renders a completion in greyed ghost text, inline after your cursor — never before it, never replacing what you typed. Here's what you see mid-sentence:

Thanks for the quick turnaround — I'll review it this afternoon and send notes.

Three keys, three outcomes. Press ⇥ Tab or → to accept the whole suggestion. Keep typing to ignore it — the ghost yields to your next keystroke instantly, with no flicker and nothing to dismiss. Do neither and it simply waits.

Why it's unobtrusive — never a popup

There is no dropdown, no floating menu, no list to arrow through. The suggestion lives in the line you're already looking at, in the same place your eyes already are. If you don't want it, you never have to look away to dismiss it — you just write your own words over it. Because it only ever sits to the right of your caret, it can't hide what you typed or push your text around.

The accept gesture is deliberate too. Tab only commits a suggestion when one is actually showing, so it never steals the key in fields where you meant to indent or move focus. When there's no ghost on screen, Tab does exactly what Tab always does.

Fast, and entirely on your Mac

The completion is generated by a local model running on Apple Silicon (MLX). Nothing you type is sent anywhere — there is zero outbound network for completions, which you can confirm yourself with Little Snitch. Password and secure fields are never read. Because it runs on-device, the ghost appears in the time it takes to glance at it, with no round trip to wait on.

This is the same gesture wherever you write — see how it behaves across every app, or how it reads for longer-form writing.

How accepting compares

The difference from a snippet expander or a word-suggestion bar is the gesture itself: one key, in place, for a whole phrase.

Frequently asked questions