AI assistants, chat and model tools
Desktop AI assistants
AI assistants that live on the user's computer (often voice-driven or screen-aware) to read on-screen content, answer questions, and control apps or automate multi-step tasks, frequently running locally for privacy.
Built for: Mac and Windows power users
Projects since May 04
203
Different builders
193
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+23%
AI is the core
86%
Projects per week
Mostly desktop app (54%), mobile app (13%), ai agent or bot (8.4%) · from r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis, r/SaaS
Latest
- Sonny-Personal-Assistant — Runs a local voice assistant on Windows that listens, sees through a camera, browses the web, controls the computer, remembers facts, and speaks replies.“Sonny-Personal-Assistant”
- Open Instinct — Runs a personal assistant agent with memory, scheduling, a Linux desktop, and messaging over iMessage, SMS, or email, with per-contact trust tiers.“We built Open Instinct, a personal agent you can text and fork”
- NEXA — Controls a Windows PC by voice, opening apps, managing settings, setting reminders and answering live queries.“I built a voice AI assistant for Windows that actually controls your PC (opens apps, sets reminders, searches the web)”
- RelayDesk — Connects an MCP-capable AI assistant to a user-controlled computer, server, or VM so it can run commands and return their output.“RelayDesk - Connect MCP-capable AI assistants to your computer, server, or VM”
- Marv — Sits on the cursor, sees the screen, and points at, highlights, and draws over on-screen elements while explaining how to do something.“Built a little AI cursor buddy for Windows”
- Tocket — Extracts tasks, reminders, payments and notes from shared screenshots and photos and exposes them as context that ChatGPT or Claude can query.“From screenshots and photos to a personal assistant that actually knows your context”
- Cue — Turns spoken or typed requests into tasks that parallel AI agents carry out in the background, browsing the web and running code in sandboxes.“I built Cue, an open-source mac app that turns voice requests into parallel AI agents”
- OpenNotch — Turns the MacBook notch into an AI assistant that can run tools on the Mac, asking for approval before risky actions.“I spent my evenings making the MacBook notch useful: an open-source AI assistant + a jelly blob named Puff" + video.”
- Arvik — Runs natural-language goals on a user's computer by operating apps, websites and terminal commands to complete multi-step tasks.“I’m building what I think should be the easiest way to automate computer tasks”
- Runs a local AI assistant on old, repurposed hardware.“Making a local AI assistant from old hardware. Fully open source.”
- Simple GPT — Floats a desktop widget that answers questions about whatever is on screen or in selected text.“Simple GPT | Realtime AI Lens with Cross App selection”
- Tvaily — Displays an animated human avatar on the Mac desktop that speaks and keeps the user company while they work.“I built Tvaily, an early AI character for the Mac desktop, and I'd like honest feedback”
- myiaos — Provides a self-hosted web desktop that runs in the browser, with file upload and download, multi-user chat, and local AI models.“An online web desktop, you self host on cpanel, and can access anywhere.”
- Echo — Runs voice-triggered tasks on a Mac, such as checking email, drafting replies, cleaning folders, setting reminders, and running scheduled actions.“ever get too busy to do something yourself ? i do , so I built a Mac app that everything for me when I ask”
- One V2 — Runs an AI assistant in which each chat gets its own virtual computer to perform tasks.“I made an AI assistant where every chat gets its own computer”
- Little Toby — Runs an offline AI assistant on Linux that carries out computer tasks via an on-screen character, with companion iPhone and Android apps.“I made Little Toby, a free, open-source AI assistant for Linux (Hyprland) that runs fully offline on your own computer. Press Super+G and a little character wakes up; ask it to do something and it walks across your screen and does it. It has iPhone and Android apps”
- askverb — Embeds an AI assistant in a SaaS product that carries out user requests by acting on the app's data, asking for confirmation before changes.“Giving away a full AI agent for your SaaS, free during beta, no catch”
- Quist — Runs a small local AI overlay at the cursor that performs text tasks like rewriting, converting, and searching files on a keypress.“After years of bloated AI apps, I built the opposite: a tiny local assistant that lives at your cursor. Looking for honest feedback.”
- Captain Who — Runs a desktop AI agent that edits files, executes terminal commands, searches the web, and drives browser tools using user-supplied model API keys.“Captain Who — an open-source, production ready desktop AI agent built with Rust and Electron”
- Beli — Runs a self-hosted personal AI agent that keeps long-term memory, runs scheduled tasks, operates a browser, and messages the user on WhatsApp or Telegram.“I turned OpenMuse into Beli, a self-hosted personal AI agent that remembers, schedules, and messages me”
Most discussed
- Benny's Accessibility Hub 2.0 — Lets a user with limited switch access pick shows and movies, search the web, text people, and play games, with AI-assisted phrase prediction for communication.“AI Integrated into my brother's Custom Vibe Coded AAC System”
- WindOp — Lets an AI agent take control of a Windows PC's mouse, keyboard, shell and apps to carry out natural-language tasks.“I built a Windows AI agent that actually controls your PC — no cloud, no subscription, 300+ models (WindOp)”
- Akeem — Aims to be a workspace where AI remembers context over time and coordinates multiple tasks.“What feature is still missing from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini?”
- Runs a private AI assistant locally on a home box that handles email, browser tasks, reminders, and coding help without sending data to the cloud.“Built a private AI assistant that runs on hardware you own — here's what I learned shipping real hardware vs SaaS”
- Provides a desktop utility whose use consumes Claude API credits, with usage tracked through PostHog events.“My first ever paid customer paid and dipped, should I refund?”
- Ordo — Provides a voice-controlled AI assistant through earbuds with a built-in camera that takes photos, remembers spoken notes, and connects to work apps.“Smart Earbuds with built-in camera and AI embedded”
- sinain — Captures screen and audio on macOS and builds a private local knowledge graph that AI agents and collaborators can query.“Shipped sinain today — ambient memory for macOS, so I stop re-pasting context into Claude Code”
- Wiqo — Sends tasks from a phone to a computer for remote execution, with a chat interface for interacting with it.“I’m building a way to control your computer from anywhere. Would you use this?”
- MudrikNow — Reads the active window's UI via accessibility tree and opens a chat panel where an AI can see the screen and guide the user through tasks step by step.“I got tired of explaining my screen to AI chats, so I built an open-source desktop AI that reads your screen”
- Sirius — Runs a personal AI assistant that builds persistent-memory workflows of hardcoded steps, using an LLM only where judgment is needed.“Looking for beta testers to help test my app”