SpotAsk
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Native macOS menu-bar AI assistant: quick hotkey launch to ask anywhere, or select text to translate and polish. Privacy-first, bring your own key (BYOK).
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- Chat Bot
- Sits in the menu bar
- Swift App
- SwiftUI App
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Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is SpotAsk?
SpotAsk is a lightweight, hotkey-driven macOS menu-bar AI assistant designed with the philosophy: "Ask first. Decide where it goes after."
Key Features:
- Instant Hotkey Capture: Summon SpotAsk anywhere with a global shortcut (Option + Space by default). Type your question immediately without window-switching friction.
- Direct BYOK In-App Answers: Connect your own OpenAI-compatible API or Anthropic key. API keys are stored securely in the native macOS Keychain. Free, open source (AGPL-3.0), no subscription fees.
- External Ask (Query Routing): Route queries directly to external web interfaces (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok), native URI scheme apps, or custom terminal commands (local agents) — then automatically closes without consuming API tokens or saving history.
- Selection Toolbar: Select text in any application to trigger quick AI translation, rewriting, summarizing, or polishing.
- Context-Aware OCR & Multimodal: Attach screenshots or system context directly to prompts for visual understanding.
- Native & Responsive: Built natively with Swift and SwiftUI for minimal resource usage, instantaneous startup, and seamless macOS integration.