Hand off the answer
When one buddy finishes its job, the buddies you picked get the answer and start on their own. A buddy with several inputs waits for all of them.
Wisp for Mac · Free · Open source
The busywork,
handled.
Wisp lives in your Mac's notch. Hold ⌃⌥ and say it: it drafts the email, runs the browser errand and keeps a team of buddies working on a schedule. Private by default.
Hold two keys and say what you need. Wisp reads your screen, drafts the email, runs the errand, tidies your desk and keeps a team of buddies working while you're away. All of it on your Mac, and it asks before anything leaves.
9:00 AM
The Briefer reads your calendar.
A buddy on a schedule writes three lines on what matters today. No prompt, no tab to open.
Then it hands the brief on.
Its answer goes to the Writer, who starts on its own.
And you get a plan.
The lab report, split into four steps that fit around your day.
9:05 AM
Say it once.
“Every weekday at 8, tell me what's due.”
It becomes a card you can check.
When it runs, what it reads, where the answer goes and which buddy owns it.
And it says what leaves your Mac.
Nothing private goes to a cloud model until you allow it.
The rest of the day
And the everyday jobs.
34things it does today
0.1sfor window layouts, timers and tabs
0accounts, keys or analytics
25languages, heard on-device
While you're away
A team that works
without you.
Each buddy owns one job, with its own chat, memory, model and tools. They run on a schedule, hand their results to each other, and only interrupt you when something needs your OK.
Ask the team
Ask up to four teammates at once, split work into side threads, or draft a new teammate with your OK.
Threads side by side
Every chat runs on its own. A message sent mid-job can steer the work in progress.
Backup models
If a model hits a limit or goes down, the next one takes over.
A session of its own
Run a buddy on your Claude subscription with a kept session per conversation.
Tidies its own notes
Every 20 messages a buddy reviews what it remembered and fixes it. Notes you wrote are never touched.
Everything it does
Not a chatbot in a window.
It finishes the job.
Draft emails
An editable draft, addressed from Contacts. Nothing sends until you press Send.
Text people
“Text mom I'm running late” finds the right person and shows the message first.
Browser errands
Works through pages in its own tab and asks before anything irreversible.
Tidy Chrome tabs
Groups tabs by site or topic and closes duplicates.
Arrange windows
Halves, quarters, thirds, maximize, next display. No model call.
Timers and music
“Set a timer for 25 minutes.” “Pause the music.” Instantly.
Apple Shortcuts
Runs your Shortcuts by name, always with your OK.
Native apps
Clicks and types in Mac apps through cua-driver, with each action shown first.
Point at anything
A labelled marker on the control you asked about, in about a tenth of a second.
Guided walkthroughs
Steps on your live screen, ticked off as you click, or done for you.
Working on the page
Handwritten steps beside a problem, one line at a time. Save it as a PNG.
Note cards
Explanations on movable cards you can ask follow-ups on.
Ask about one part
Drag a box around anything, or say “explain option C”.
Screen watchers
“Tell me when the build finishes.” A notification when it does.
Glance cards
Weather, places nearby, calendar, reminders and timers, right in the notch.
Canvas to calendar
Your Canvas deadlines in a Wisp calendar, synced every hour.
Daily checklist
Due dates and events in Reminders, with unfinished items rolled over.
Study blocks
Focus time proposed in your free gaps. Nothing is written without your OK.
Study mode
A focus timer in the notch that hides distracting apps and sites.
Automations
Say it, pick a template, or save an answer. Runs on a schedule or an event.
Buddies
Named agents with their own job, chat, memory, model and tools.
Hand-offs
One buddy's finished answer starts the next.
Ask the team
Ask several buddies at once, or split work into side threads.
Group chats
Several buddies in one chat. @name picks who answers.
Workflows
Draw buddies, conditions and approvals as a flow on a canvas.
Backup models
If a model is down or out of credit, the next one takes over.
Private brain
A local wiki in Obsidian format, built from your files and conversations.
Buddy memory
Each buddy keeps its own notes and tidies them. Yours are never touched.
Learned shortcuts
Save a finished task and replay it later without the model.
Usage log
Tokens and cost per turn. Counts only, never content.
Any model
Ollama, Apple on-device, Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok or OpenRouter.
500+ apps
MCP servers and Composio for Gmail, GitHub, Notion and more.
Dictation
Hold ⌃⌥⇧ to type by voice into any app, on-device.
Hands-free
Double-tap ⌃ and talk without holding a key.
Privacy
Your Mac is the
whole pipeline.
By default, nothing about your screen, voice or words leaves this machine.
Your voiceParakeet, on the Neural Engine
Your screenAccessibility and Vision OCR
Your modelOllama on localhost
Your answerKokoro voice, on-device
Local first
The default model runs on your Mac through Ollama. Brain pages are plain markdown files on your disk.
Cloud is opt-in
Claude, GPT and Gemini are bring-your-own-key, or use your Claude subscription. Wisp labels clearly when a screenshot would leave your Mac.
Nothing to track you
No account, no analytics code, no telemetry. Keys and feed URLs live in your login Keychain. The usage log keeps counts, never content.
- OllamaDefault · on your Mac
- Apple on-deviceOn your Mac
- ClaudeYour key or subscription
- GPTYour key
- GeminiYour key
Get Wisp
Up and running in a few minutes.
Notarized downloads aren't published yet, so for now you build it once in Xcode. It's free and MIT licensed.
- Apple-silicon Mac on macOS 26 or later
- Xcode 26
- Ollama for the default local model
# 1. a local model
ollama pull qwen2.5vl:3b
# 2. get Wisp
git clone https://github.com/anaylab/wisp.git
cd wisp
open leanring-buddy.xcodeproj
# 3. pick the leanring-buddy scheme and press ⌘R,
# then hold ⌃⌥ and talkBefore you try it
Questions, answered plainly.
Is it really free?
Yes. Wisp is open source under the MIT license, and the default setup costs nothing to run because the model, speech and voice are all on your Mac. If you choose a cloud model, you pay that provider with your own key or subscription.
What leaves my Mac?
By default, nothing. Speech to text, voice, OCR and the local model all run on-device. The only network use by default is a one-time download of the speech models and optional weather and places lookups, which send a place name or query, never a screenshot. If you pick a cloud model, your transcript and screenshots go to that provider, and Wisp says so.
Can it do something I didn't want?
Anything that sends, deletes, pays, posts, invites or runs a command shows a card first, even if you turned on auto-approve, and you can edit the wording before you allow it. Password and payment fields in the browser are refused outright. Scheduled automations only get tools that never prompt.
Which Macs does it need?
An Apple-silicon Mac on macOS 26 or later, since the notch uses Liquid Glass. 16 GB of memory is recommended for the local model. You need Xcode 26 to build it.
Does it work in my apps?
Pointing, walkthroughs and screen reading work anywhere: native apps through Accessibility and everything else through on-device OCR. Browser control works with Chrome and Safari.
Why isn't there a download button?
There is no notarized build published yet, and I'd rather say so than point you at something half-finished. Building it takes a few minutes in Xcode, and signed releases are on the way.