Voice-activated requests
Lives in your Mac's notch and accepts spoken requests when you hold Control + Option, speak, and release.
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Local AI for dictation, meetings, background tasks and more
Product brief
sideOS lives in your Mac’s notch. Hold Control + Option, say what you want, let go! It reads your screen, opens apps, clicks, types and tells you when it’s done. Run it fully offline local models or use your own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or Grok key.
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Useful AI capability selected as the strongest remaining eligible daily candidate.
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Lives in your Mac's notch and accepts spoken requests when you hold Control + Option, speak, and release.
Can read your screen as part of handling a request.
Can open apps, click, and type, then tell you when it is done.
Can run fully offline using local models.
Can use your own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or Grok key instead of local models.
Best-fit use cases
FAQ
Hold Control + Option, say what you want, and release the keys. The assistant lives in your Mac's notch.
It can read your screen, open apps, click, and type. It also tells you when it has finished.
Yes. The description states that it can run fully offline using local models.
Yes. The description lists support for your own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or Grok key.
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