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AI · April 15, 2026

MiniAi

Select text, hit (⌥ space), get AI explanations

MiniAi launched on April 15, 2026 with 85 votes, #540 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

MiniAI lives in your macOS menu bar. Select any text — a PDF, an email, a code snippet. Hit ⌥Space. Get a clean AI explanation in a floating panel. No app switching. No copy-pasting into ChatGPT. Your focus stays where it was. Built by a med student who got tired of breaking focus while reading papers.

Select any text on your Mac and press ⌥Space. Understand it instantly, right on your screen. No browser, no copy-paste. Free native macOS app.

Any text, any app on your Mac. Understand it, right where you are. Unfamiliar term? Explained in seconds. Ask a follow-up for more. 3. Movement pathway "Why Parkinson's patients experience tremors" “ Dopamine is not about pleasure — it's about the anticipation of pleasure. ” Safari, VS Code, Notion, Keynote, Mail — any app where you can select text. It means "too old to learn" isn't a thing. That's not a motivational poster — it's neuroscience. Every time you study something new, your brain physically changes to get better at it. This error means you're trying to access a property on a variable that is undefined. Check that the object exists before accessing its properties. Common fix: use…from miniai.dev

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