I wanted Cursor autocomplete everywhere

I’m building the autocomplete app in a private repo that now has more than 2,000 commits.

The goal is simple: take the feeling of Cursor autocomplete and make it work naturally in every text box on your Mac.

For a long time, I tried to do that with overlays. I was inspired by Cotypist, a tool I’ve used, and by Tabby, an open-source project. Both helped show me what was possible, while I found my own path for how the autocomplete app should feel and work.

I would watch what you were typing, draw a suggestion over the app, then keep tweaking the placement, timing, fonts, and all the little edge cases. It sometimes looked good.

But it rarely felt right.

The suggestion was close to the text, not actually part of it. It felt like another app hovering over the one you were using.

The small victory was realizing I was solving the wrong problem.

Instead of getting better at drawing on top of text boxes, I started using the native text-composition path in macOS. The system already knows where the cursor is, how text wraps, and what typing should feel like.

That one change has made the autocomplete app feel unbelievably more native.

I have failed a lot on this project. But this feels like a real step forward: stop patching the messy surface problem, find the root cause, and work with the platform instead of fighting it.

I’m excited to get this out to people soon.