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Atticus is a macOS voice assistant that uses hold-to-talk input and runs on top of Claude command-line mode. You press and hold a key to speak, and the transcribed request is passed to the assistant, which makes it a hands-free way to drive a coding or writing session. It is built for people who would rather talk than type when giving an agent instructions. The project is published as an open-source macOS application and relies on a local Claude setup instead of a separate hosted service.

BetterWispr is a free, open-source dictation app for macOS that transcribes locally with no account and no cloud fallback. Hold Option and Space in any app, speak, and cleaned text lands where your cursor was. Nine built-in speech models cover Apple speech, Parakeet and Whisper across English, Japanese and 25 European languages, and a notetaker mode uses Apple Intelligence or Ollama on your Mac to write meeting summaries, decisions and action items. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Big Arrow on the Screen lets AI agents draw large arrows, boxes and text directly on top of your display. Instead of describing where to look in words, an agent can point at exactly the part of the screen it means, which makes supervised and shared-control workflows far easier to follow. It is aimed at developers building or running computer-use agents who want clearer visual feedback. The project is published as an open-source utility and is described as a way for agents to paint on your screen.

Codeium was Exafunction's free AI coding toolkit with inline completions and code search across many editors. The company rebranded to Windsurf in 2025 before the business passed to Cognition, and codeium.com now redirects to Devin Desktop. Existing users were moved to Windsurf plugins, so new users should review the current lineup before adopting. The original extension remains a free option for individual developers.

Llmspeed lets you feel how fast a local model will actually run before you buy the hardware. You browse by specific machine — an RTX 5090, a Mac Studio M5 Ultra, a Strix Halo laptop, a DGX Spark — and see the speed you would get. It is aimed at anyone weighing a GPU or memory upgrade for local inference and unwilling to guess. Instead of reading abstract benchmark tables, you pick your hardware and get a concrete answer.

Lovo AI is a voice generation platform for cloning custom voices and producing text-to-speech. Creators can build a voice model from sample recordings and use it for narration, characters, videos and ads across many projects. The platform targets video producers, game developers and marketing teams who need consistent, branded voiceovers without booking recording sessions for every script revision.

PDF to MP3 AI Connect turns documents into spoken audio using text-to-speech access that comes with an existing OpenAI subscription. Instead of paying a separate narrated-audio service, you connect your account and convert long documents such as PDFs into MP3 files you can listen to. It targets readers who want to get through reports, papers or ebooks during a commute. The tool is offered as a hosted web page and is positioned as a way to reuse a subscription you already pay for.

Pictory AI turns text scripts into videos by automatically pairing narration with stock footage. Writers paste a script or article and receive a video draft with visuals matched to each section, which skips the storyboard stage. Marketers and content teams use it to repurpose blogs and articles into video for social and email. A free tier allows testing the format, with paid plans unlocking longer videos and more complete stock access.

Pulse Local is a Mac budgeting app that runs its AI models on your own machine instead of sending financial data to a hosted service. Because the analysis happens locally, your spending history stays on your computer. It is aimed at people who want the convenience of an AI-assisted budget review without uploading bank or card data to a third party. The app is built for macOS, and the launch post frames it as a budgeting tool whose AI models run on your machine.

Sembly AI is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings, then tracks action items across sessions. It integrates with calendar applications so the assistant can join scheduled calls and distribute minutes afterward. Teams use it to keep decisions and follow-ups organized without assigning a dedicated note-taker. Past meetings stay searchable, so anyone can find what was decided about a topic without watching the recording.

SolidCraft is an open-source parametric 3D CAD application written in pure Rust, available on desktop, in the browser and through an MCP server that lets AI agents model for you. It sketches with a real constraint solver, builds a feature timeline of extrude, revolve, sweep and loft operations, and exports STEP, IGES, STL, OBJ and URDF. Agents get tools for execute, inspect_design, measure, set_parameter and screenshot. Dual MIT or Apache-2.0 licensed, and self-described as early but usable for simple parts.

Windsurf is an agentic IDE built around the Cascade agent, which tracks your edits, commands and project context to refactor across multiple files rather than one line at a time. It handles multi-file refactors, terminal commands and project-wide context within the editor. The tool has changed ownership: Google licensed the technology and hired the founders in July 2025, and Cognition acquired the remaining company the same month. The editor was later renamed Devin Desktop, with Cascade, keybindings and extensions unchanged.