Hover for Mac: AI anywhere on your Mac, right beside your cursor

Hover for Mac is a local-first AI assistant that appears beside your cursor and works across macOS. Select text, press a shortcut, choose an action, and get help with writing, coding, summarizing, translating, explaining, or replying without switching apps. Use local models through Ollama or LM Studio, or bring your own OpenAI-compatible API key for OpenAI, Featherless, or custom endpoints.

Hey Product Hunt, I’m Harish, maker of Hover for Mac. I built Hover because using AI on macOS still feels like context switching: copy text, open a chat app, paste, prompt, wait, copy back, and return to what you were doing. Hover brings AI to the place you are already working. Select text anywhere on your Mac, press Cmd-Shift-X, choose an action like Explain, Rewrite, Summarize, Translate, Reply, or Ask, and the response appears beside your cursor. It is local-first by design. You can use Ollama or LM Studio for local models, or bring your own OpenAI-compatible API key for OpenAI, Featherless, or custom endpoints. Hover does not require a Hover cloud account and does not store prompts by default. The repo is open source. The paid download is a simple way to support the project and get the app immediately. I’d love feedback on the onboarding, action presets, privacy UX, and which macOS workflows you want Hover to support next.