AI Tools with tight MacOS integration

AI tools that tightly integrate with macOS

Mad Machine
4 min readOct 17, 2023
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

AI has become deeply integrated into today’s society, and I have no qualms about acknowledging that I heavily rely on AI. While AI may not be able to solve every problem, it undeniably makes life a little easier, be it for tasks such as writing, coding, or even answering general questions. With AI, almost anything can be simplified.

Most people probably use AI chatbots directly on the web or on their phones. Certainly, this is an easy and cheap way to go about it.

Using AI directly on the desktop makes things even easier. Instead of the AI being only available in the browser, it can be accessible anywhere and on any application. Why limit it to the browser when it can be used from locally installed word processors, spreadsheets, writing tools, and so on?

There are tools that you can install that provide an interface into AI. Some examples of these tools include Typing Mind, BoltAI, and others. However, these tools only offer interfaces into the AI and do not require the use of a browser.

The tool I’m talking about is an integrated tool in the OS that you can summon whenever you want, no matter which app you’re using. You can use it to summarize files, make formulas in Excel, write a letter in Word, code in…

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Mad Machine

I’m a DevOps engineer, but I love to tinker with all kinds of technologies.