Waylight for macOS - ChatGPT, but with context from your tabs, meetings, and docs
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Waylight is now available on Apple Silicon Macs! That includes all Macs and MacBooks made after 2020, and some made in 2020.
Waylight is an AI assistant that understands everything you do on your computer — your meetings, documents, tabs, and messages. It builds a private memory of your activity so you can ask questions about anything you’ve seen and get instant, accurate answers.
Waylight organizes your life, automatically generating a to-do list and daily journal based on your activity.
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@laithrw Personalization only works when context is real and trusted.
GTWY is built on the same principle: intelligence grounded in actual state, not repeated prompts.
Why would you hide the pricing until after you've downloaded the app?
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@etc Waylight is completely free if you're using the on-device model, which is sufficient for almost all tasks. On the free plan, you get the same functionality. The paid plan just allows increased access to the cloud model, which we pay to run and which is currently steeply discounted. However, this is something we will definitely clarify on the website.
Congrats on the launch! Love the private, on-device memory for real context.
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Wow, Waylight looks amazing! The on-device memory is a game-changer for privacy. How does it handle sensitive info like banking details to ensure theyre not accidentally included in the memory?
Pricing should not be hidden.
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@yevgen_kuzmenko I've added it to the website.
“Waylight is an AI assistant that understands everything you do on your computer — your meetings, documents, tabs, and messages. It builds a private, on-device memory of your activity so you can ask questions about anything you’ve seen and get instant, accurate answers.”
I would paraphrase this as saying I have not been using Waylight for more than approximately 12 hours. I think that's enough to give feedback on the features and the premise put forward by Waylight and its founders. Which I find to be highly inaccurate.
I wouldn’t say it understands everything I do on the MacBook. Rather, the opposite. It misunderstands a lot. It makes a lot of assumptions. It makes a lot of false claims about what I’ve been doing, but it presents them in a way that sounds like it knows what I’ve been doing with high confidence, which feels very weird.
I’m not sure if it’s hallucinating, but it’s suggesting certain websites I supposedly have visited, which I have never accessed. I can verify this by reviewing the logs.
When I simply ask it to summarize what I’ve been working on today and avoid focusing on websites in Chrome, because it, for some reason, has a very high focus on them, it first of all doesn’t listen. It will use Chrome as the source of truth, which I don’t understand why it would.
It's claiming that I have created a new application with a name that is a title on our website, which I just visited. It is also claiming that I have been using YouTube actively. Yes, I visited YouTube, scrolled down, and didn't watch any videos, but it says that I've been promoting access to my YouTube builds via a membership offering a 30-day money-back guarantee and providing free resources.
I have no idea what sources were used to synthesize this information, because it’s entirely incorrect.
My experience with Waylight has been disappointing. The app’s features—such as the daily journal, to-do list, and chat—are unpredictable and unreliable. None of the information provided is accurate, not even to a small extent. I find no useful data in this app, as it is only about 5% correct, with the rest being false or misleading.
That’s the truth. The harsh truth.
@laithrw Congrats on the launch!
Is it safe?
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@new_user___34620255be6c913c5c85d4c Yes,
Waylight runs entirely on-device, so your data is never stored outside of your computer.
This looks like a great idea - like what Microsoft aimed to do with their Recall feature but in a privacy-conscious way. Are you planning to open source the code so it can be properly vetted for security? What local AI models are you using?
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@burtherman Right now, Waylight is closed-source, but we are considering making it open-source in the future.
@laithrw OK thanks for the answer. What models are you using locally?
Do yall have a repo?
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@justin_ram Not currently. We might open-source parts of Waylight in the future, but right now it's closed-source. If you're interested in how we manage multiple concurrent calls to the local LLM, you can see this repo.
@laithrw great repo. I didn’t see anything on there about pricing, is there info available?
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@justin_ram Yes, you can see pricing here: waylight.ai/pricing. Nearly all of the functionality is free to use forever -- the paid plan just allows more usage of the smarter, cloud model, but the on-device AI model is sufficient for most tasks and free.