Shadowtype finishes your sentences as inline ghost text in any app — and it does it without ever calling a server. There is no inference network request, period. Pull the Wi-Fi, board the flight, work air-gapped: it keeps predicting at full speed because the model runs 100% on your own Apple Silicon with llama.cpp and Metal.
Cloud autocomplete dies the moment your connection does — and it ships every keystroke to someone else’s server. Shadowtype runs the whole prediction loop on your Mac, so the network is never in the path between you and your next word.
Predictions are computed locally with a downloaded model. There is no API request to OpenAI, to us, or to anyone, for any completion. Turn off Wi-Fi and watch the ghost text keep flowing — same words, same instant speed.
Airplane Mode, a train tunnel, a hotel connection that drops every minute — none of it matters. Latency-free local inference means there’s no spinner, no “reconnecting,” no degraded suggestions when the bars disappear.
If your machine can’t talk to the internet by policy, Shadowtype still works. Nothing you type is transmitted because there’s nowhere for it to go — no telemetry backend, no analytics, no account. Activate once, then disconnect forever.
Cloud completion bills per token and throttles you under load. Local inference is free to run as hard as your Mac allows — type all day, every day, with no usage meter on the model itself.
Being honest about “offline” means naming every byte that could leave the Mac. Here is the complete list — and your keystrokes, prompts, and completions are on none of it.
Pick a model (Gemma 4 or Qwen3.5 GGUF) and it downloads once to your Mac. After that the file is local forever — re-launch on a plane and it loads straight from disk.
The one-time license verifies once, online, when you activate it. From then on it runs offline indefinitely — no recheck, no phone-home, no grace-period countdown. The free tier needs no activation at all.
Shadowtype can check for a new version periodically so you get fixes and new models. It’s the only recurring outbound traffic, it carries none of your content, and you can simply ignore it.
Mail, Notes, Slack, your editor, a web form — Shadowtype predicts inline as you type. Tab accepts a word, ⌥Tab accepts the whole line. Offline changes none of it.
Select any text and press ⌥⌘K to rewrite it — shorter, clearer, a different tone — all computed locally. No connection required, your draft never leaves the machine.
Run Gemma 4 for speed or Qwen3.5 for richer predictions — both downloaded once and executed on-device. Swap models anytime; the inference path stays fully offline.
Download Shadowtype free, accept your first word with Tab, then pull the connection and watch it keep going.
