AI Assistants You Can Call From Any App

AudioWhisper is a macOS menu bar app for dictating into other apps and converting recordings to text. It suits people who want on-device speech recognition with the option to use cloud transcription.

Fisper is a voice-to-text app for Apple Silicon Macs that puts dictated text into the app you're using. It runs Whisper locally and works offline after the initial model download. It's for people who want to dictate in everyday apps or talk to terminal-based AI agents without sending their audio to a cloud service.

Kerlig is a paid AI writing assistant for Mac that helps with emails, Slack replies and Jira tickets in the apps you already use. It combines text editing with document chat and an agent that can read your screen and use your apps.

Phorminx turns speech into text in Windows apps and keeps a searchable record of meetings. It's for people who want dictation, translated transcripts and answers about a call without sending the conversation to a cloud AI service.

Hermes Notes is a self-hosted personal knowledge base for people who want their notes and project work in one connected system. It runs on your laptop or a server you control, with a browser interface and PostgreSQL storage. It's open source under the MIT license and built for personal use or a trusted small group, rather than a public service for unrelated users.

Link gives AI agents persistent memory so you don't have to repeat preferences, project decisions and context in every session. Multiple agents can read the same local Markdown files, which you can inspect in an editor or Obsidian.

WritHer is a voice dictation app for people who want to write in Windows desktop apps and manage everyday tasks by speaking. It works offline after the initial model downloads, without an account.

SpeakoFlow lets you dictate into other apps and ask an AI assistant for help without leaving your work. It's for people who want voice typing, spoken conversations and meeting notes with processing on their own computer.

BoBe is an open-source desktop assistant that offers help based on what you're working on. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 15 or later. Optional periodic screen captures give a vision model context about your work, while a floating overlay lets you chat with the assistant and review its suggestions.

FluidVoice turns speech into text in Mac apps, including email, documents, chat, terminals and code editors. It suits people who want local dictation with optional editing before text reaches the active app.

TypeWhisper is a macOS dictation and transcription app for people who want to turn speech into text across their apps. Local speech models keep audio on your Mac; optional cloud transcription sends it to the selected provider.

Prismos AI is a desktop assistant for people working with private documents and technical files. It uses local Ollama models to answer questions and retain knowledge for later conversations.

Natively is a desktop assistant for people who want suggested answers during meetings or interviews and searchable notes afterward. It works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams without adding a bot to the call.

Enconvo is a native Mac AI assistant for people who want help with writing, research and tasks inside their everyday apps. It uses screen and selected-text context so you can ask about what you're working on without moving everything into a separate chat.

RecurseChat is a Mac app for people who want private AI conversations and answers drawn from their own documents. Local models run without an internet connection or a separate server.

Volyx Lens is an open-source desktop AI assistant for macOS, Windows and Linux that lets you choose which screen, microphone and system-audio inputs reach your AI provider. Linux support is experimental, with meeting audio captured on a best-effort basis. It's for people who want help with visible code, documents or meetings without continually copying context into a chat. A movable floating rail expands into chat and collapses when you don't need it.

Thuki is a floating AI assistant for Mac users who want help with the text or screen they're already viewing. It appears above other apps, including fullscreen windows, and automatically brings selected text into the conversation.

Whisper Local is a free, MIT-licensed dictation app for Windows and macOS, aimed at people who want voice typing without cloud processing. It's an alternative to Wispr Flow and Dragon that inserts speech into the active text field, including in chat apps, browsers and code editors. It doesn't require an account or API key.

Omodo is a macOS menu bar AI assistant for people who manage work through Apple Mail, Calendar, Reminders and Notes. It uses models running on your Mac to track requests and handle tasks in the background.

Everywhere is a desktop AI assistant for people who want help with the app they're working in without copying its contents into a separate chat. It reads on-screen context to answer questions and carry out tasks across apps.

MindMac is a native macOS AI chat client for people who want local models and cloud providers in one app. Its inline mode lets you get writing help inside Notes, Mail and browsers without switching to a separate chat window.

Enchanted is a ChatGPT alternative for people who want an Apple app for chatting with models they host themselves. It requires your own Ollama server, which runs the models on your computer or a server you control.

OpenWhispr is a dictation and meeting transcription app for people who want to write by voice and keep searchable records of conversations. It lets you choose local processing or cloud providers.

Raycast Ollama is a desktop launcher extension for people who want to chat with models and work on text without leaving Raycast. It connects to Ollama running on your machine or a remote server you choose.

Hold Speak is a macOS menu bar app for people who want to dictate prompts to AI agents or enter text in other apps. It runs Whisper locally on your GPU through WhisperKit and CoreML, so local transcription works offline and keeps speech on your Mac. Push-to-talk dictation inserts the transcript into the focused text field.

Fluid is a local AI assistant for Mac users who want to ask questions without sending their chats to a hosted model. It runs Meta Llama 3 on your Mac and supports offline conversations.

Pretype is a local AI writing assistant for people who want sentence suggestions across their Mac apps. It works in native apps, Electron apps and web text fields without separate plugins for each app.

Newelle is a Linux desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with local models and use AI to work with documents and files. It also supports external model providers.

Jev Chat helps people interpret tense or ambiguous conversations and choose a reply. It estimates the other person's intent and the risk of friction before suggesting wording, though its assessments can be wrong.

Witsy is a desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with models, work with documents and write across applications. You can choose local models or cloud providers, with feature availability depending on the backend.

BoltAI is an AI workspace for Mac users who want local models and cloud services in one app for writing, coding and research. It keeps related conversations together and brings chat into other apps through an overlay.

Wispuh is an MIT-licensed speech-to-text app for macOS 14 and later that puts dictated text into the app you're working in. It's for Mac users who want voice input across their everyday software without sending recordings to a cloud service. It doesn't require an account.