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Atticus for Mac

Fast, free voice assistant for your Mac. No API key: runs on your Claude Pro or Max plan. Sends background agents for big jobs, remembers you and learns your shortcuts. Hold ⌃⌥Space and talk.

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  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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What is Atticus for Mac?

Hold ⌃ control ⌥ option space, say what you need, let go. Atticus moves your windows, finds your files, reads your screen and gets it done.

  • Fast. Simple asks skip the AI: an app opens in 0.08 s. Ask for an action once and Atticus learns it, so next time it runs in a blink, with no AI and for free.
  • No API key. It runs on the Claude Pro or Max plan you already have, through Claude Code — or on your Devin plan through the Devin CLI (Settings → AI client). Nothing to sign up for, no key to paste, no extra bill.
  • Remembers you. Say "remember…" and every ask after that knows it. It picks up who you are (your name, your apps) and fixes its own mistakes when you correct it.

Why Atticus?

  • Fast: Opening apps and sites, moving windows, web searches and music skip the AI entirely (an app opens in 0.08 s). Actions you ask for once (opening apps, moving windows, playing music) become learned shortcuts: "Open Calculator and Chess" went from 5.5 s to 0.4 s, with no AI.
  • No API key: Runs on the Claude plan you already have, through claude -p. About 0.18¢ of plan usage per ask (~550 asks for $1 at API list rates). Atticus itself is free.
  • Remembers you: "Remember: open means bring it to the front." Saved rules go with every ask. It learns lasting facts about you (name, city, favorite apps), and when you correct it, it saves a rule so it gets it right next time. Edit all of it in Settings.
  • Private ears: Apple's on-device speech turns your voice into text. Audio never leaves your Mac.
  • Your whole Mac: Apps, windows, files, settings, the web and the screen, with native Accessibility controls for clicking, scrolling and typing inside apps.
  • Safe by default: Safe mode runs the AI's commands in Claude Code's sandbox: they can only write to a scratch folder. Before anything deletes, sends, buys or changes a file, Atticus asks you first. rm, sudo, disk tools and shutdown are always blocked. Every exact command is in the ask log.