Get TypeSeer working, then make it yours

Quick start

1. Install TypeSeer. Open the DMG, drag TypeSeer to Applications and launch it. TypeSeer lives in the menu bar rather than the Dock.
2. Download the recommended model. The built-in model is about 3.8 GB. TypeSeer downloads it once after you confirm, and suggestions then run on your Mac.
3. Grant Accessibility. Follow setup to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility and switch TypeSeer on. This is the only macOS permission TypeSeer asks for.
4. Type and pause. Try “Thanks for your help with” in Mail, Notes or TextEdit. Grey text should appear after your cursor.

Accepting and dismissing suggestions

• Tab accepts the next word. Press it again to accept another. The rest of the suggestion stays exactly where it is, and TypeSeer works out what follows the whole phrase and adds it to the end, so it keeps growing ahead of you as you accept it.
• The key above Tab (§ or `) takes the whole suggestion at once. You can change these keys in Settings → Keyboard.
• Esc dismisses the suggestion and gives Tab back to the app.
• Keep typing to ignore it. If you type the offered text yourself, the suggestion stays and shortens without calling the model again.

TypeSeer never changes your text unless you accept a suggestion.

What it learns, and how to see it

Learning how you write is optional. When it’s on, TypeSeer picks up your words, names and phrasing from sentences you finish. It never stores the one you’re still typing, or a suggestion you ignored.

Open Settings → Context → Personalization → Review… to:

• read every active learned sentence;
• see where each one came from: the language, how many times seen, the app and the website;
• export a readable copy;
• delete one sentence without clearing everything; or
• clear the lot.

Nothing else is kept, and nothing else appears in an export.

Learn each website separately

Part of the same setting, switchable on its own, and does nothing while learning is off. In a browser, TypeSeer prefers what you’ve written on the same site before. It stores the site address and nothing else: never the page, a search, a title, a port or an account. That address is shown beside the sentence in Review and in exports.

Turning suggestions off in an app or on a website

The menu bar has both: Turn Off in <app> for the app you are in, and Turn Off on <site> for the website you are on in a browser. Website rules are one list shared by every browser, managed in Settings → Apps, and a domain covers everything under it: a rule on example.com also quiets mail.example.com.

A bar through the menu-bar icon means TypeSeer is switched off where you are, whichever of those reasons it is (the trial having ended included). Open the menu and its top line names the reason, with the row beneath it there to turn that off again. A faded icon is a different thing: the model is still starting up or downloading, and it clears on its own.

TypeSeer reads which site a browser is showing only while your website list has something in it, and only to apply your rules. It keeps the hostnames you added and nothing else. A rule applies wherever the site can be identified, so in a browser that does not publish its address suggestions carry on as normal.

Writing instructions

The control adapts to the selected model:

• The built-in model: paste a few sentences in the voice you want TypeSeer to write in.
• A model marked -it, -instruct or -chat: write direct guidance on role, audience or tone. These models can also check grammar.

Any app can have its own instructions instead: add it under Settings → Apps.

Experimental features

Dictation, translation, Rephrase and grammar checking are in Settings → Experimental. Each stays off until you turn it on, and each needs macOS 26.

• Dictation: press ⌃⌥D to start and again to finish. ⌃⌥L picks the languages. More about dictation.
• Rephrase: select text and press ⌃⌥R. It needs Apple Intelligence. More about Rephrase.
• Grammar checking: the keys that apply a fix are in Settings → Keyboard.

Statistics and battery

Choose Statistics… in the menu to see the time and keystrokes TypeSeer has saved you. Pause suggestions on battery is in Settings → General.

If no suggestion appears

1. Open the menu and check that Accessibility is granted and the model is ready.
2. Pause briefly after typing, so a suggestion has a moment to appear.
3. Check that TypeSeer isn’t switched off, either everywhere or in the app you are in.
4. Try an ordinary writing field. TypeSeer deliberately skips passwords, address bars, search controls and other fields whose own completion uses Tab.
5. Finish any web address, email address or file path with a space. TypeSeer stays quiet inside them so it cannot repeat or rewrite part of an address.
6. Check that your trial or license is still active.

A few apps don’t tell macOS what is in their text boxes, or where the cursor is. If one you rely on is affected, tell us which app and field.

Doubled or overlapping suggestions

If a suggestion looks doubled or smudged in an app like Mail, you are seeing two suggestions at once. macOS draws its own grey suggestion at the cursor in native apps, and it lands on top of TypeSeer’s, so the two overlap.

Turn Apple’s off and only TypeSeer’s remains. Open the TypeSeer menu and choose Turn Off Apple’s Own Suggestions. It asks first, because this changes a system setting: it affects every app, and apps already open carry on until you quit and reopen them. You can turn it back on from the same menu whenever you like.

You can also change it yourself in System Settings → Keyboard → Text Input → Edit… by turning off Show inline predictive text.

Google Docs

Google Docs draws your document as a picture rather than as text, so by default there is nothing for TypeSeer to read and the menu bar says “Google Docs needs braille support turned on”.

Switching on braille support gives it the words. In the document, open Tools → Accessibility, tick Turn on braille support and click OK. Suggestions start working immediately, including Tab to accept a word and Tab twice for the whole suggestion. It is safe to leave on. Inside Docs it changes a few keyboard shortcuts and nothing else, and it affects no other app and sends nothing anywhere.

This applies to any editor that paints its text into a canvas. When TypeSeer meets one it cannot read, the menu bar says so rather than going quiet, so you never have to wonder whether it has stopped working.

Privacy and offline use

Suggestions, spelling, dictation, Rephrase and everything TypeSeer learns all stay on your Mac. Once the model is downloaded, suggestions work with no internet connection. TypeSeer uses the internet only to download a model, check for updates, check your license, and open the payment page when you choose to buy or manage one. The Privacy page lists the exact data involved.

Still stuck?

The Troubleshooting page walks through permissions, missing suggestions, position, and the apps TypeSeer can't read.

Or email [email protected]. There is a person at the other end.