Typeback
Reply in your voice, any app
About Typeback
Typeback is an AI reply keyboard for iPhone. You switch to it in any app where you can type, tap the pencil above the keys, and it reads the conversation on your screen and puts a suggested reply straight into the message field, written the way you text. It works in iMessage, WhatsApp, dating apps such as Hinge, Tinder and Bumble, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Reddit, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Gmail, Outlook and forums. The problem it targets is the time spent drafting, deleting and rereading a message before replying. Typeback never sends, likes or posts anything for you: you read the reply, edit it if you like, and press send yourself.
What sets it apart from a chatbot is that there is no app switching, no screenshot to upload and no prompt to write. It is a full keyboard as well, with word suggestions, optional autocorrect, emoji, snippets, space-bar cursor control and haptics, and typing works offline. The AI replies use Anthropic's Claude, with Google's Gemini as a backup, and need iOS Full Access because that is the switch iOS uses for a keyboard's network access. Memory about the people you talk to is stored on your iPhone, and the developer says its server passes requests on without storing chats, screenshots or replies. The app is free with every feature included and a fair-use daily limit on AI replies, which the site describes as free while it launches. It requires iOS 16.4 or later, is rated 18+ on the App Store, and an Android version is on a waitlist.
First you start reading. Live mode uses an iOS screen broadcast that you start from the keyboard and stop with one tap, and it reads each chat you open until your iPhone locks. If you would rather not share your screen, the Action Button or Back Tap takes a single private screenshot per press that never lands in Photos.
Second you tap the pencil. Typeback has usually written the reply while you were reading, so it goes into the message field at once. It writes three replies, best first, and tapping the pencil again swaps in the next one.
Third you adjust it. One-tap chips make the reply Shorter, Warmer, Funnier or Add a question, and you can rename, reorder or add your own chips, or type a one-off instruction. You can also tap the microphone and say what to change, such as "shorter", or tap the chat button to ask what the other person meant. Undo takes back any rewrite.
Finally you send it yourself. Settings let you turn off Read chats ahead and Write replies ahead so that no chat is sent until you ask.
- •Replies in Your Voice - You describe how you text, including tone, length, emoji use and lowercase, and can set a different tone per app, such as playful on dating apps and crisp on LinkedIn.
- •Person Memory - Everyone you reply to gets a card on your iPhone with their profile, your chat and your notes, so later replies pick up the context. Delete my data wipes it in one tap.
- •Ask About the Chat - Ask what a message meant or what to say next, right in the keyboard, and Why this reply? explains the suggestion in the field.
- •Voice Input - Dictate a message, or say what you want, such as "tell her Sunday works", and Typeback writes or rewrites the reply.
- •Any Language - Replies come in the language of the chat or one you set per person, with one-tap translation of a draft or a whole chat. Autocorrect covers English and Polish.
- •Snippets and History - Your handle, number, address or usual availability are two taps away, and everything the keyboard typed is searchable by day and person.
Typeback is built for iPhone users who spend time drafting replies in personal and social chats. People on dating apps can get openers that pick up on something from a profile and keep a conversation going without a long draft. Professionals answering on LinkedIn, Slack or email can set a more formal tone for those apps while keeping a casual one for friends and family.
People who text in more than one language can have replies come back in the chat's own language, or set a language per contact. Heavy users of X, Reddit and forums can draft replies in place without copying text into a separate AI app.
It suits people who want help with wording but want to keep the final say, since nothing is sent without their tap. It is not for Android users yet, and it is not for anyone uncomfortable granting a keyboard Full Access or sending chat text to an AI provider.
