New tool2026-10-23via Product HuntAI Agents That Do Tasks for You

sideOS.ai

Name: sideOS.ai
Author: sideOS

sideOS is a macOS assistant that lives in the MacBook notch: hold two keys and speak, and it reads the screen, opens apps, clicks and types to do the task, with free on-device dictation, meeting transcription, background tasks and reminders, for $89.90 once plus your own model costs.

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PaidProprietaryAppby sideOS

Why it matters

For Mac users who want a voice assistant that actually works their apps, such as replying to email or filing an invoice, without a subscription and with the option to keep everything on the machine.

Highlights

Reads the screen through macOS's accessibility tree in about 50 ms, with screenshots as a fallback, and drives apps by clicking, typing, pressing shortcuts and running AppleScript.
Dictation runs on macOS's own speech engines with no API key or cost, in 62 languages on the classic engine.
Notices Zoom, Meet or Teams calls and offers one-tap recording; Whisper transcribes on the Mac, then it writes a summary and turns action items into reminders.
Background tasks can search the web, read and write files, run shell commands and render PDFs, and commands that can't be undone ask for approval first.
Bring a key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or xAI (the site estimates 2-5 cents a command) or run a local model through MLX at no cost; it also connects to MCP servers.unverified

Taken from the project's own README, docs or launch page. Claims about speed or accuracy are the maker's unless stated otherwise.

Try it if: You'd rather say "reply to this email and politely decline" than do it yourself, and you work on a Mac.

Worth knowing: It needs Accessibility, microphone and speech permissions and can control your apps. The app sends anonymous usage counters by default, which can be switched off in Settings.

Quick facts

Pricing	$89.90 one-time lifetime licence; model usage billed by your provider (site estimates 2-5¢ per command) or free with a local model
Free or paid	Paid
License	Proprietary
Language	App
Platform	macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon; Windows not mentioned
GitHub stars	n/a (not a GitHub project)
Maker	sideOS

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Checked 2026-10-24 from the tool's own pages. Prices and star counts change, so confirm on the official site. Listing here is not a ranking or an endorsement.