Sidekick for macOS

Point at anything. Ask out loud. Understand it instantly.

Sidekick sits quietly on your Mac, sees what you see, and answers out loud. Not another chat window. It points a ring at the exact button you need, in whatever app you happen to be in.

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Coming soon · Free with OpenCharts · macOS 13+ · Apple silicon and Intel

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Realtime voice and live sources

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You

How do I blur the background on this?
Looking at your screen

Theo

It’s under Background — right here. Pick Blur, then drag the slider to taste.
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The ring is drawn on your real screen, over your real app. Nothing is copied into a chat window.

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How it works

Ask a question. Watch it point.

Three beats, and none of them involve describing your screen to a chatbot.

01

Summon it without leaving your app

The orb lives on the edge of your screen. Hold it to talk, tap it to open, drag it anywhere you like. Or keep your hands on the keys and use the shortcut — your window never loses focus.

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Hold to talk · tap to open · drag to move

⌘⌥Zhands free·⌘⌥Vpush to talk

Or just say “Hey Sidekick”.

02

Ask the way you would ask a colleague

Speak, or type if the room is loud. There is no prompt to craft and no context to paste, because it is already looking at the same screen you are.

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You

Where do I save?
Looking at your screen

Theo

Under File → Export, or just press ⌘S. I’ve ringed it — it’s the third item down.
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Get an answer that points at the thing

Sidekick reads the interface in front of it and draws a ring around the exact control, then explains what to do in one sentence. When a menu is buried three levels deep, it walks you down.

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Under the hood

Two ways to find a button. It tries the precise one first.

Most apps publish their own interface to the system. When one does not, Sidekick falls back to looking — and it shows you which one it just did.

Tier one

It reads the app's own accessibility tree

macOS lets apps describe their controls to assistive software. Sidekick reads that description, so it knows a button's real name and its real bounds — and frames the actual control, at its actual size.

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  • Frames the real control, not a guess
  • Instant, with no image to read
  • Knows the control by name
Tier two

When an app stays quiet, it looks instead

Games, remote desktops and older apps publish nothing. Sidekick falls back to vision: it studies the frame, finds what you described, and shows a soft search area rather than a pinpoint it cannot back up.

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  • Works on anything that renders
  • Finds controls by description
  • Says when it is approximating
Everything else

It remembers, it acts, and it stays out of the way.

It remembers the last thing you asked

Follow up without starting over. Ask what a setting does, then say “and where do I save that?” and it keeps the thread, the app and the control in mind.

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Sidekick transcript

You

What does this compression setting do?

Theo

It trades file size for detail. Lower means a smaller file and a softer picture.

You

And where do I save that?

It can take the step for you

When you would rather not chase a menu yourself, ask it to do the clicking. It confirms before it acts, then moves, clicks and types on your behalf, narrating each step as it goes.

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Realtime voice and live sources

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I can open Export and set the format to MP4 for you.
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Pointing it out

Ready when you are.

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Type when you cannot talk

Open plan office, late night, loud call. The same answers arrive without a word out loud.

Answers you can hear

It speaks the reply while it points, so you can keep your eyes on the thing you are doing.

It reads the code on screen

Point it at a diff or a stack trace and ask what is wrong. It reviews what it can see, in whatever editor you use.

Walks you through it

For anything longer than one click it teaches step by step, waiting for you at each one rather than firing them all off.

Only when you summon it

Nothing is captured until you press the shortcut. Close it and it goes back to doing nothing.

Free with your account

When it lands, Sidekick is included with OpenCharts. Sign in once and it uses the plan you already have.

Part of OpenCharts

It is not a separate product. It is your account, on your desktop.

One sign in

Use the OpenCharts account you already have. No separate Sidekick login to remember.

One balance

Sidekick draws on the same plan and credits as everything else in OpenCharts.

One history

What you asked on the desktop is there when you open OpenCharts in the browser.

Every Mac you use

It will run on the laptop and the desk machine alike. Both pick up the same account.

When it lands

Setting it up will be three steps, and about two minutes.

01

Drag it into Applications

A signed, notarized app. Move it across and open it the way you would open anything else.

02

Grant the permissions

Screen Recording so it can see, Accessibility so it can point, and the mic if you want to talk to it. macOS asks once, and you can revoke any of them at any time.

03

Press the shortcut and ask

Sign in with your OpenCharts account, then summon it from whatever you happen to be looking at.

Coming SoonmacOS

Free with OpenCharts · macOS 13+ · Apple silicon and Intel

Questions

Everything worth knowing before it lands.

When can I get it?
Not yet. Sidekick is still being built, so there is nothing to download from this page today. It arrives free with OpenCharts, and this is where it will show up first.
What will Sidekick actually see?
Only what is on your screen, and only while you have it open. It captures a frame when you summon it and reads the interface in front of you. Close the overlay and it stops looking.
What permissions will it ask for?
Each one buys a single thing. Screen Recording lets it see the window you are asking about. Accessibility lets it move the cursor and point. Automation lets it read an app's own list of controls, which is what makes the pointing exact. Microphone and on-device Speech Recognition are for talking to it and for the wake phrase. All of them are granted through macOS during first-run setup, and you can revoke any of them in System Settings at any time.
Will it work in every app?
Yes. When an app publishes its interface to macOS, Sidekick reads that directly and points at the exact control. When one does not, it falls back to looking at the pixels and shows you roughly where to look, so games, remote desktops and older apps are still covered.
Can it click things for me?
If you ask it to. It confirms before it acts, then moves the cursor, clicks and types on your behalf, narrating each step as it goes. Turn on Autopilot if you would rather it stop asking. Otherwise it points and explains, and you stay in control.
What will it cost?
Nothing extra. Sidekick will be included with OpenCharts and will draw on the plan and credits on the account you already have.
Which Macs will be supported?
macOS 13 and later, on both Apple silicon and Intel. It ships as a signed, notarized app.
Will it update itself?
Yes. Sidekick updates in the background, so the version on your Mac stays current without a trip back to this page.
How will I remove it?
Quit Sidekick and drag it to the Trash like any other Mac app. Revoking its permissions in System Settings removes its access immediately.

Stop hunting for the button. Just ask.

Sidekick is coming to the Mac, free with OpenCharts. A short setup and a shortcut, and it will point at the next thing you cannot find.

Coming SoonmacOS
Free with your account Signed and notarized macOS 13+