Native Mac app · Built by Useful Build

A team of AI bots that lives on your Mac.

Give each bot one job: writing, research, your inbox or your files. They run on the model you already pay for, work in the apps you connect and ask before they touch anything you haven't allowed.

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

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

Or paste this in Terminal. macOS 14+ · Apple silicon · Updates arrive in the app

The app isn't notarized yet. After a download, allow it once in System Settings, Privacy & Security. The Terminal line skips that step.

Useful Bot on a Mac: the rail of bots on the left and a chat where a bot answers with a launch checklist.
The real app. Every bot keeps its own chat, and what it's doing shows as it works.
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One bot for every job.

Make a bot for each part of your work and group them the way your week runs. Each keeps its own chat, instructions and memory, and can hand work to another.

The new chat picker: New Bot, Create group chat and a list of bots with their jobs.
02

Bring the model you already pay for.

Sign in with ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot, 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.
03

Your apps, on your terms.

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

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

Before you install.

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

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

Put a team of bots on your Mac.

Download the app, connect a model and make your first bot. It takes a couple of minutes.