Autocomplete shouldn't be a subscription

WriteAmp predicts your next few words in every Mac app, accepts them with Tab, and runs entirely on your Mac. You buy it once for $29. There's no monthly plan, because there's nothing to meter.

Free for 30 days · every feature on · no credit card required

Somewhere, finishing your own sentence became a recurring bill

A menu-bar utility is not a streaming service. Nothing about “the next few words” needs a billing relationship.

A utility on a leash

Cancel the plan and a tool you use every day stops working on a Tuesday — even though it's only ever used the Mac in front of you.

Free until you write

The free tier is measured in words. You find out where the wall is mid-paragraph, on a day you happened to be busy.

You already paid for the hardware

The Mac that runs the suggestion is yours. Being charged monthly for it to keep running is the part that never sat right.

A subscription makes sense when something costs money every time you use it. A model running on your own Mac is not that. It's a utility — so it should behave like one.

You don't rent your keyboard shortcuts.

One payment. Then it's out of your way.

WriteAmp is a one-time purchase because the inference happens on your Mac — there is no per-use server bill to pass on. So there's no reason to price it like there is one.

One price, yours to keep

$29 once. Unlimited suggestions, up to three Macs, lifetime use. Nothing renews, and there's no plan to outgrow.

No daily word cap

Nothing counts how much you write. The trial is fully featured for 30 days, and after it you unlock the app — you don't graduate to a metered tier.

Nothing to meter, because nothing leaves the Mac

Suggestions are generated locally on Apple Silicon. No account, no cloud inference, no usage dashboard quietly deciding what you're worth per month.

A tool that's allowed to disappear

No billing portal, no “manage subscription,” no retention flow on the way out. It sits in your menu bar and does its job.

Want the head-to-head detail? It's on the comparison page, including where WriteAmp loses.

How it works

1. Install once

Drag to Applications, allow Accessibility, pick a local model tier. No account to create.

2. Type like you always do

The next few words appear at your cursor — light gray inline in native apps, a blue capsule in web fields.

3. Press Tab, or don't

Tab accepts the suggestion. Keep typing and it disappears. That's the whole interaction, for the next year and the one after.

The price math, in the open

No plan comparison table to decode. One number, and the reason it's one number.

$29
once · unlimited suggestions · up to three Macs
$6–9
per month, typical subscription in this category
0
words of your writing ever sent to a server

Subscription autocomplete apps commonly bill $6–9 a month, with free tiers capped around 100 completed words a day. One year of that costs more than two WriteAmp licenses. WriteAmp is $29 once, with unlimited suggestions and no cap. Competitor prices are public list prices and change — we link them from the comparison page so you can check.

Questions people actually ask

Why is it one-time instead of a subscription?
Because there's no per-use cost to cover. The model runs on your Mac, so there's no server answering each keystroke and nothing to meter. A one-time price matches how the product actually works.
Will WriteAmp switch to a subscription later?
No. It's a lifetime license — buy it once and it keeps working. If that ever changed, it would be a different product, not a quiet flip on this one.
Is there a free tier?
A free 30-day trial with every feature on and no card required. After it ends there's no word-capped plan to fall back to — you unlock the app for $29 once.
Is unlimited really unlimited?
Yes. No daily word cap, no completion counter, no usage-based upgrade path.
What happens if I “cancel”?
Nothing to cancel. There's no billing relationship after the purchase, so there's nothing to manage and nothing that expires.
Does on-device mean worse suggestions?
It's a different trade, stated honestly: WriteAmp writes short continuations rather than paragraphs, and prefers showing nothing over showing something wrong. The published benchmark and per-case results are on the benchmarks page.
How much is it, exactly — and what does one license cover?
$29 once for a lifetime license on up to three of your Macs. Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. On macOS 26+, Apple Intelligence mode stays free even after the trial ends.

Your Mac already does the work

Pay for it once. Free for 30 days with every feature on, then $29 once — unlimited suggestions, up to three Macs, no subscription and no word cap.
Free for 30 days · no credit card required · full refund within 30 days of purchase.

$29 once · lifetime use