Available on macOS

Meet Useful Bot

Your own AI bot on your computer. Use the ChatGPT plan you already pay for, an API key or a local model.

Coming soon See how it works

The first release is on its way. The download goes up here the day it's out.

Install in one line

$ curl -fsSL https://github.com/wasimjalali/useful-bot-releases/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sh

Paste it in Terminal. macOS 14+ · Apple silicon · Updates arrive in the app

Download for Mac

The DMG needs a one-time OK in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway.

Useful Bot on a Mac, answering in a chat. — The real app, asked two first questions.

What you get.

Bring the model you already pay for.

Sign in with ChatGPT, add a coding plan or an API key, or point it at a model running on your own Mac. Pick the model per chat.

Useful Bot's model settings with connected providers.

Your apps, on your terms.

Connect Gmail, Calendar, Drive and hundreds more. Read only, Auto or Full access decides what the bot may do on its own. In Auto, anything else waits for your yes.

Useful Bot's connectors, with the apps the bot can use.

Work that runs while you're busy.

Give it a routine, like a morning brief or a weekly cleanup, and it runs on schedule. Try it first with Test run. Web search is built in and free to use, with a daily allowance and no extra key.

A routine called Monday AI news brief: its instructions, weekly schedule, Test run button and run history.

Before you install.

What leaves your Mac, in full: the privacy page.

Works onmacOS 14 or later, Apple silicon
ModelsChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, OpenRouter and more, or a local model
Stays on your MacYour chats, memory and the files the bot makes
Leaves your MacWhat you ask goes to the model provider you connect, and to the apps the bot uses for you
TrackingNone. No analytics, no crash reports, no ads
UpdatesIn the app, each one checked against its signing key