sideOS.ai: Local AI for dictation, meetings, background tasks and more

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Buğrahan, the maker of sideOS.

Every MacBook has a notch that just… sits there. I wanted an assistant that lives there and actually does things on my Mac — not another chat window I have to copy and paste out of.

So that's sideOS: hold Control + Option, say what you want, let go. It reads your screen, opens apps, clicks, types, and tells you out loud when it's done. "Reply to Alex — politely say no" is a whole task.

A few decisions I'd love your take on:

🔒 Private by default. Speech is recognized on your Mac. There's no account and no server of ours between you and the model: you bring a Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or Grok key (it lives in your Keychain), or run Qwen3 / GPT-OSS fully on-device with MLX — no internet at all.

⚡ It reads the screen through macOS accessibility, not screenshots — every button by name, in about 50 ms. That's why a typical command lands around 2–5¢ on your own provider bill.

🧰 It's more than commands: dictation into any app (62 languages, on-device), meetings recorded and transcribed on your Mac, reminders that can do the job before they ring, background research tasks, and one-click connections to Gmail, Calendar, Notion, Slack, GitHub or any MCP server.

💳 One-time purchase. No subscription — buy it once and every future update is included.


PS: For the Product Hunt community, code SIDEOS25 takes 25% off for the next 7 days.

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Buğrahan, the maker of sideOS.

Every MacBook has a notch that just… sits there. I wanted an assistant that lives there and actually does things on my Mac — not another chat window I have to copy and paste out of.

So that's sideOS: hold Control + Option, say what you want, let go. It reads your screen, opens apps, clicks, types, and tells you out loud when it's done. "Reply to Alex — politely say no" is a whole task.

A few decisions I'd love your take on:

🔒 Private by default. Speech is recognized on your Mac. There's no account and no server of ours between you and the model: you bring a Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or Grok key (it lives in your Keychain), or run Qwen3 / GPT-OSS fully on-device with MLX — no internet at all.

⚡ It reads the screen through macOS accessibility, not screenshots — every button by name, in about 50 ms. That's why a typical command lands around 2–5¢ on your own provider bill.

🧰 It's more than commands: dictation into any app (62 languages, on-device), meetings recorded and transcribed on your Mac, reminders that can do the job before they ring, background research tasks, and one-click connections to Gmail, Calendar, Notion, Slack, GitHub or any MCP server.

💳 One-time purchase. No subscription — buy it once and every future update is included.


PS: For the Product Hunt community, code SIDEOS25 takes 25% off for the next 7 days.