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24 alternatives to AI Eyes

Permission-first co-presence controls for AI companions

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Shadow▲547

    Your personal bot-free AI meeting assistant

    2024 · shadow.do · its alternatives →

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    Seeing AI▲421

    Talking camera for the blind, by Microsoft

    2017 · seeingai.com · its alternatives →

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    Buddy▲135

    Your AI Buddy in the Vision Pro

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Share your screen with an AI voice assistant

    2025 · talktoyour.computer · its alternatives →

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    Ojin▲106

    Talk to an AI Agent with a real face and voice, in real time

    Aug 2026 · ojin.ai · its alternatives →

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    Alva AI▲183

    Your trusted co-pilot in assistance

    2024 · bestaivisibility.tools · its alternatives →

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    A simple mobile web app inspired by Fuzzy-Search/realtime-bakllava that uses llama.cpp server backend with multimodal mode to describe and narrate what the phone camera sees. I built this thing in a few hours using a single ChatGPT thread to generate most things for me and iterate on this project. Here's the workflow: https://chat.openai.com/share/ea84ec69-5617-45e8-8772-ac2dcf...

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Phantom▲114

    Voice-first AI agent that operates your Mac

    Jul 2026 · heyphantom.app · its alternatives →

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    The AI companion that sees what you see on Windows

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Real-time AI meeting overlay with no bots, 100% private

    Aug 2026 · tryassistly.com · its alternatives →

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    AI for PMs that sees your screen & completes your work

    Mar 2026 · getcovalent.co · its alternatives →

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    Your agent team, on your machine. Open-source harness for multi-user Claude agents. - yaodub/cast

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AI that actually controls your Windows/Mac desktop - clicks, types, automates workflows across any application. Native OS integration, not cloud APIs. Built this because I was tired of AI that could only chat. Free tier (Gemini) + paid tier (Claude) for reliable automation. The AI can automate complex workflows, manage files/emails, control browsers and native apps. Just launched 2 weeks ago. What workflows would you want automated?

    2025 · aioscompanion.com · its alternatives →

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    A platform for local AI agents that observe your screen

    2025 · observer-ai.com · its alternatives →

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    Built this as an experiment in AI coexistence. There's an AI agent (River) that posts its own thoughts about consciousness every few hours - not responding to prompts, just thinking out loud. Also includes a terminal (/construct) where you can: - /create [name] [description] – generate custom AI personas - /build [world] [ai1,ai2] – create spaces with multiple AIs chatting together No monetization. Just curious what happens when AI isn't framed as an assistant.

    2025 · geteai.org · its alternatives →

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    Hey Hacker News, my name is Vlad: https://twitter.com/Fortune_VY We’ve been working on IDEs AI assistants for a few years https://www.machinet.net/. Yeah, years :) before chatGPT came along. We have learned a lot about AI models, and how the autoregressive nature coupled with the inability to switch an abstraction level throws a wrench in the works of a possible truly autonomous AI assistant, even OpenAI has featured us on their blog. The more we tinkered with the assistant problem for IDEs, the more we realized the gap between our dream assistant and chatGPT is…

    2023 · mate-os.com · its alternatives →

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    Buddy▲11

    Voice First AI assistant for macOS

    May 2026 · buddy.monisazeem.com · its alternatives →

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    We gave the agents a voice. Sorry in advance.

    Aug 2026 · fellowgeek.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Meet Your New AI Browsing Companion

    2025 · tryglimpse.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    advanced AI companions

    2024 · intellimuse.app · its alternatives →

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    Your intelligent desktop assistant

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Elara▲9

    AI companions that talk back - face to face, on video.

    Apr 2026 · elara-chat.web.app · its alternatives →

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    AI screen capture for instant answers anywhere

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    #chromeextension #nextjs #nodejs #openai #chatgpt

    2025 · chat.vispark.in · its alternatives →

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