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AI · October 23, 2026

sideOS.ai

Local AI for dictation, meetings, background tasks and more

sideOS.ai launched on October 23, 2026 with 85 votes, #266 of 4,037 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

sideOS lives in your Mac’s notch. Hold Control + Option, say what you want, let go! It reads your screen, opens apps, clicks, types and tells you when it’s done. Run it fully offline local models or use your own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or Grok key.

sideOS lives in your MacBook's notch. Hold Control + Option, say what you want, and it reads your screen, opens apps, clicks, types and reports back. One-time purchase, on-device dictation included.

We’re opening our partner program to a small group of teams this quarter, and sideOS is at the top of our list. Hold Control Option , say what you want, let go. sideOS reads your screen, decides what to do, opens apps, clicks, types — and tells you when it’s done. The core of sideOS, playing itself. Pick any of them — or let it run. Say what you want. It reads your screen and does it for you. The work starts the moment you release, and it tells you the result out loud. The pointer becomes a laser. Circle something and that region travels with your question — “fix this” is a whole sentence. Through the accessibility tree in about 50 ms, knowing every button by name. Images are the fallback,…from sideos.ai

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