Buddy is push-to-talk, screen-aware AI assistant for Mac. Hold Ctrl+⌥ Option to ask about anything on your screen and get real-time voice answers next to your cursor.
New to Buddy? See the setup guide →
Features
Hold Ctrl + Option anywhere on your Mac to ask Buddy. No wake word, no chat window to open.
Buddy captures the display your cursor is on and grounds every answer in what you’re actually looking at.
Answers land in a floating, draggable window that stays until you close it — and the cursor companion stays right next to your pointer, calling out exactly what to look at on screen.
Spoken summaries use gpt-4o-mini-tts with a steerable style: calm pacing, natural pauses, a friend next to you.
A tiny buddy follows your cursor, points at things on screen as it explains them, and shows a quick message bubble right where you’re already looking.
MP3 TTS and a short spoken contract keep first-audio-byte fast, so it feels like a conversation, not a wait.
How it works
Press and hold Ctrl + Option anywhere. Buddy shows a small cue near your cursor while it listens.
Speak your question naturally. On release, Buddy snaps a screenshot of the display you’re looking at.
A draggable answer window appears with the full markdown answer. A warm, short spoken summary plays.
Early bird pricing
Hosted is the easiest path: Buddy handles OpenAI access with safe usage caps. BYOK is for people who want forever app access and to bring their own OpenAI key.
Buddy Hosted
$9.99/month
$119.88 total
Billed yearly
Best early-bird hosted value for daily Buddy use.
Buddy BYOK
$29.99
One-time payment for forever access, including 1 year of updates.
BYOK means your OpenAI billing stays with OpenAI. Buddy stores your key locally in macOS Keychain.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)