Buddy

What it does

Hold Control + Option on your Mac, ask anything about what's on your screen, and Buddy answers out loud with a warm, natural voice. Also, You’re never alone with our cursor buddy! It lives right on your screen, pointing things out and helping you navigate your Mac with ease.

Buddy is a push-to-talk, screen-aware AI assistant for Mac. Hold Ctrl + Option to ask about anything on your screen and get real-time voice answers next to your cursor.

Buddy is push-to-talk, screen-aware AI assistant for Mac. Hold Ctrl + ⌥ Option to ask about anything on your screen and get real-time voice answers next to your cursor. Hold Ctrl + Option anywhere on your Mac to ask Buddy. No wake word, no chat window to open. Buddy captures the display your cursor is on and grounds every answer in what you’re actually looking at. Answers land in a floating, draggable window that stays until you close it — and the cursor companion stays right next to your pointer, calling out exactly what to look at on screen. Spoken summaries use gpt-4o-mini-tts with a steerable style: calm pacing, natural pauses, a friend next to you. A tiny buddy follows your…from buddy.monisazeem.com

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