Your screen-aware macOS buddy
Hold Ctrl+⌥ Option, ask anything about what’s on your screen, and Buddy answers out loud — warm, natural, and right next to your cursor.
Features
Built around how you actually use a Mac.
Push-to-talk
Hold Ctrl + Option anywhere on your Mac to ask Buddy. No wake word, no chat window to open.
Screen-aware
Buddy captures the display your cursor is on and grounds every answer in what you’re actually looking at.
Draggable answer
Answers land in a floating, draggable window that stays until you close it. Copy, read, reference. Never auto-dismissed.
Warm voice
Spoken summaries use gpt-4o-mini-tts with a steerable style: calm pacing, natural pauses, a friend next to you.
Local key storage
Your OpenAI API key is kept in the macOS Keychain. No server, no sign-up, no relay.
Low latency
MP3 TTS and a short spoken contract keep first-audio-byte fast, so it feels like a conversation, not a wait.
How it works
Three gestures. That’s the whole product.
Hold
Press and hold Ctrl + Option anywhere. Buddy shows a small cue near your cursor while it listens.
Ask
Speak your question naturally. On release, Buddy snaps a screenshot of the display you’re looking at.
Answer
A draggable answer window appears with the full markdown answer. A warm, short spoken summary plays.
Early access
Want to try Buddy?
We’re sending TestFlight invites in small batches. Drop your email and we’ll ping you when your seat is ready.
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