The AI keyboard for introverts who overthink replies.

Introversion here means a social-battery and overthinking problem, not an attention or initiation disorder. You can plan a careful reply for twenty minutes, hate every version, and still have the cognitive fuel — you spent it on simulation. ADHD reply paralysis is a different mechanism: starting is expensive, time slips, backlog shame compounds. If that is your pattern, use KOPY for ADHD as a related page. This page is for people who stall because they are modeling tone, relationship risk, and aftertaste.

We built KOPY as a keyboard because the blank composer is where the simulation loop lives. A first draft on-screen ends the infinite branching. You edit for warmth and boundaries. You send before the battery hits zero. That is psychology of drafting, not a productivity-hack for task switching.

Social battery is a budget, not a mood

After a day of meetings or a crowded weekend, a simple are you okay still costs. The cost is not the characters. It is the predicted follow-up: they will want a call, they will want a longer explanation, you will owe a second message. Overthinkers pay that cost in advance, in the draft loop, even if they never send.

A useful split: messages that close a loop versus messages that open one. Closing is confirmation, thanks, a boundary, a rain check. Opening is a question that requires another round. When the battery is low, generate for close. Agree, Neutral, or a short Disagree that ends the negotiation. Continue is for when you actually want another round. Using Continue at 11pm is how you donate the rest of the battery to a thread you did not mean to host.

• Loop-closing: I can't make tonight, next week is better. No essay on why you are tired.
• Loop-opening: what happened after the thing you mentioned. Only send if you can afford the reply.
• Repair: name the miss, one next step, stop. Neutral. Do not joke-deflect; that creates a second round.

The drafting loop is the product we interrupt

Overthinking looks like typing, deleting, retyping with a slightly kinder adverb. Each pass is a new social simulation: will this sound cold, eager, fake, intense. The paradox of choice is real here even without a clinical label. More candidate sentences raise the evaluation load. A generated stub is one candidate. Your job is a single edit pass for truth — is this actually what I mean — not a search for the globally optimal utterance.

That is different from reply anxiety as a general cognitive pattern, which we wrote up separately in the psychology of reply anxiety. Anxiety can show up for anyone. Introvert-specific load is the extra tax on low-stimulation recovery: you are protecting quiet, so every message is a door. ADHD-specific load is executive function. Do not collapse those on this page.

Boundaries without sounding like a corporate auto-reply

Introverts often need a no that does not invite debate. Disagree tone is for that, then you strip any clause that explains your entire nervous system. I am going to skip this one, enjoy it, tell me how it goes is usually enough. Over-explaining is a draft-loop symptom. It tries to prevent disappointment by narrating. It often creates a caretaking thread instead.

Work messages have a cleaner close: Professional plus a time. Social battery still applies. You can be introverted and also a manager. Work mode exists so you do not spend remaining battery on politeness padding. Generate, keep the deadline, delete the hope this finds you well if it appeared.

Keyboard constraints still apply when the enemy is rumination

We still need clipboard context. Copy their message so the draft is answering them, not a hypothetical. Allow Full Access is required for pasteboard, as Apple describes in custom keyboard docs and the extension guide. Rumination plus a wrong clipboard is a special hell: you generate a perfect reply to yesterday's chat. Look at the chip.

The 70MB ceiling means we will not run an on-device therapist. We will not store your friendship graph to remember they hate phone calls. You add that constraint in the edit: let's text, I am not up for a call. The model will not know your battery. You do.

KPI table: battery cost per draft cycle

These KPIs measure cognitive spend, not send speed. Not a clinical instrument.

Cycle	What you are paying	Cheap version	Expensive version
Read	Attention	Read once, copy the ask	Reread for hidden meaning
Simulate	Social prediction	One intended effect	Four imagined misreads
Draft	Generation plus edit	One generate, one truth pass	Five regenerations
Delay	Background rumination	Send or schedule a close	I'll do it when I have energy (never)
Follow-up	Next-round liability	Loop-closing last line	Open question at low battery

KOPY only cheapens the draft cell. It can worsen delay if you regenerate instead of sending. Put a cap: one generate, one edit, send or park. Parking is a calendar reminder, not a mental tab.

Group chats as audience, even when they are friends

Introverts often treat group threads like a stage. That is rational. Multiple readers multiply misread risk. The counter is not a longer draft. It is a shorter one with one addressee if needed, or a DM for the actual topic. Generate Funny for the group only if the group is already in joke register. Generate Neutral and move to DM if the content is personal. Do not process a breakup in the cousin group because the keyboard made typing easier.

Voice notes from others can feel like a demand for a voice note back. You are allowed to answer in text. A generated Neutral sentence that acknowledges the content is a valid close. You do not owe matching medium when the battery is low.

What we will not claim

We will not cite fake introversion prevalence. We will not say KOPY cures social anxiety. We will not mix in CDC ADHD figures here; those belong on the ADHD page. We will not use testimonials. The mechanism is simpler: a visible stub reduces simulation, and a loop-closing last line protects the rest of the evening.

If the stall is I cannot start, time disappeared, the pile is now shame, go to KOPY for ADHD. If the stall is I started five drafts and I am still protecting the relationship and my quiet, stay here. Same keyboard. Different accept-gate rules. Yours is: one pass for truth and boundaries, then send the close.

Phone calls as the implied next step are a battery raid. If the draft ends with can I call you, that is an open loop with a high-stimulation medium. Replace it with a text-sized close unless you want the call. The keyboard will happily generate a call offer because it sounds warm. Warmth is not free. Edit for medium, not just for adjectives.

Read receipts and last-seen are extra simulation fuel. You cannot generate your way out of being seen. If you opened the thread, you already spent the notice cost. Completing a close is cheaper than leaving a draft that proves you were there. Send the short true sentence.

Hosting is a hidden battery drain. If you are the one who always asks the next question, you become the thread's engine. Generated Continue will push you into that role because Continue is trained to keep a conversation alive. When you are protecting quiet, Continue is a loaded gun. Prefer Agree or Neutral that does not ask. You can still be kind. Kind is not the same as hosting.

Ambiguous messages from people you love are the expensive case. You will search for subtext. Set a rule: if there is no question mark and no explicit ask, generate a close that acknowledges, not a probe. Probes are loop-openers. Save probes for high-battery hours. This is drafting psychology: you choose the search space before you generate, or the model will choose an expanding one.

You can use Saved drafts in the host app if it has them, but rumination loves a draft folder. A sent close is cleaner. If you must park, park the generated text in a note with a send-by time, then leave the messenger. Standing in the thread is still simulation.

For the general (not introvert-specific) rumination pattern, the anxiety essay is the better companion than the ADHD essay. Use both only if both mechanisms are actually present. Most people have one dominant stall. Diagnose the stall before you copy tactics across pages.

Low-battery mornings after social nights are a known trap. You will over-repair yesterday. If they did not ask for a post-mortem, do not generate one. A thanks plus a later is a close. A reconstruction of who spoke too loud is an open loop that costs the day you needed to recover.

People-pleasing drafts often appear as extra clauses of availability. I could do Thursday or Friday or I could also host. Cut to one option. Two options look helpful and double the decision work for everyone, including you. One option is a boundary with a door. The keyboard will offer a menu because menus sound considerate. Edit the menu down. One time, one yes or no, then rest. If you already declined, do not generate a consolation prize that reopens the calendar. A clean no is the cheaper evening. Protect the remaining quiet.