Local AI for dictation, meetings, background tasks and more
sideOS lives in your Mac’s notch. Hold Control + Option, say what you want, let go! It reads your screen, opens apps, clicks, types and tells you when it’s done. Run it fully offline local models or use your own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or Grok key.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Buğrahan, the maker of sideOS.
Every MacBook has a notch that just… sits there. I wanted an assistant that lives there and actually does things on my Mac — not another chat window I have to copy and paste out of.
So that's sideOS: hold Control + Option, say what you want, let go. It reads your screen, opens apps, clicks, types, and tells you out loud when it's done. "Reply to Alex — politely say no" is a whole task.
A few decisions I'd love your take on:
🔒 Private by default. Speech is recognized on your Mac. There's no account and no server of ours between you and the model: you bring a Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or Grok key (it lives in your Keychain), or run Qwen3 / GPT-OSS fully on-device with MLX — no internet at all.
⚡ It reads the screen through macOS accessibility, not screenshots — every button by name, in about 50 ms. That's why a typical command lands around 2–5¢ on your own provider bill.
🧰 It's more than commands: dictation into any app (62 languages, on-device), meetings recorded and transcribed on your Mac, reminders that can do the job before they ring, background research tasks, and one-click connections to Gmail, Calendar, Notion, Slack, GitHub or any MCP server.
💳 One-time purchase. No subscription — buy it once and every future update is included.
PS: For the Product Hunt community, code SIDEOS25 takes 25% off for the next 7 days.
About sideOS.ai on Product Hunt
“Local AI for dictation, meetings, background tasks and more”
sideOS.ai launched on Product Hunt on October 24th, 2026 and earned 83 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. sideOS lives in your Mac’s notch. Hold Control + Option, say what you want, let go! It reads your screen, opens apps, clicks, types and tells you when it’s done. Run it fully offline local models or use your own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or Grok key.
On the analytics side, sideOS.ai competes within Mac, Productivity and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how sideOS.ai performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted sideOS.ai?
sideOS.ai was hunted by Bugrahan Zeki Kadak. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of sideOS.ai including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Bugrahan Zeki Kadak