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Press kit

WriteAmp press kit: boilerplate, fact sheet, founder bio, approved quotes, and downloadable assets for journalists. Last updated: July 2026. WriteAmp is built by DataDab LLP. Questions: [email protected].

“I dictate the messy version walking to the train, then clean it up at my desk. It’s not faster typing. It’s less... staring at a blank doc?” says Samira, a PM in Copenhagen.

She still types most of her work.

Fact sheet

TaglineTab-to-accept autocomplete in every macOS app.
Current version1.17.8 (September 2026)
Price$29 one-time, lifetime use. 30-day free trial plus 7-day grace period. One key covers up to three Macs.
Merchant of recordLemon Squeezy
PlatformmacOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon
App size15 MB download; local model downloaded separately on first run (~0.1–0.4 GB by tier)
Completion languagesEnglish, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi (Arabic: Experimental)
Required permissionsAccessibility and Input Monitoring. Screen Context (labelled "Screen Recording" by macOS) is additionally required for reliable caret placement in canvas-rendered fields such as Google Docs and Figma.
DistributionDirect download with Sparkle auto-updates; Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple. Not on the App Store.
Source licenseMIT open source; core logic derives from KeyType (MIT). The notarized distribution uses a paid Lifetime key to unlock the local models.

Founder bio

Amit Ashwini is an independent macOS developer building WriteAmp under DataDab LLP. WriteAmp is his first commercial macOS app.

The motivation for WriteAmp came from a recurring frustration with cloud-based AI writing tools: each one required sending whatever the user was typing to a server. WriteAmp keeps the whole loop on-device — suggestions, learning.

And history.

Approved quotes

Cleared for on-the-record use, attributed to Amit Ashwini, founder of WriteAmp.

"I built WriteAmp because I didn't want my drafts leaving my Mac. The local model isn't a feature for me, it's the whole point."

"WriteAmp suggests when it's confident and stays out of your way the rest of the time. Tab is the main interaction, that's the whole habit."

"I want the same ghost-text experience in Mail, in Slack, in a code editor. WriteAmp is one menu-bar app for all of them, and it learns how you write."

Assets

Ready-to-share cards, composed from real product screenshots — free to reuse with credit:

Dark card reading Tab is all you need, above a live ghost-text suggestion
Dark card reading Finishes your sentences, above a live ghost-text suggestion

Screenshots, settings and features:

Need a specific screenshot or a narrated video? Email [email protected] and we'll cut one.

Try it yourself

The fastest way to write about WriteAmp is to type with it for ten minutes. Download for macOS