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Life & fun · August 20, 2026

ARVIS

Control your Mac via voice and hands free interactions

What it does

ARVIS for Mac: privacy-first local AI. Control your Mac with voice and hands. One-time $10, yours forever.

A privacy-first desktop companion that runs local LLMs on your Mac , listens to your voice, understands your hands, and helps you control everything without sending your life to the cloud. Models run on your Mac. Fast, offline-capable, and under your control, not rented from a distant server farm. Talk naturally. Ask ARVIS to open apps, draft messages, search files, or walk you through a workflow hands-free. Point, grab, and steer your desktop with hand tracking: a spatial layer on top of macOS that feels like magic, not middleware. Pay $10 once. Keep ARVIS for Mac forever on your machines. Updates included, with no monthly toll booth. One payment. Yours for life. Start controlling your Mac…from arvis.space

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