Dottie
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Voice Dictation
Hold Option+Space, speak, release. Your words type in at the cursor, in any app, instantly, with no separate window.
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Setup
100%
Local
Free
Forever
Say it. It's done.
How It Helps You
- Speak AnywhereSay “Hey Dottie” to summon the agent hands-free.
- It Takes Real ActionsSends the email, books the meeting, searches the web — does the task, not just chat about it.
- It Can See Your ScreenScreen vision lets Dottie read what you’re looking at and act on it.
Listening
“Hey Dottie, summarize my unread emails.”
Email John I’ll be 10 minutes late.
DottieDrafting to John Carter… subject “Running late”. Sending now.
Add lunch with Sarah to my calendar Friday at noon.
DottieCreated “Lunch with Sarah” · Fri 12:00 PM. Want me to invite her?
Dottie sees Invoice total: $4,210 · due Jun 30
What makes it different
Kill Your Keyboard
Four things most assistants can’t do, and Dottie does all of them, for free.
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“Hey Dottie” Wake Word
Call her hands-free. Ask a question, dictate a message, or kick off a task without touching the keyboard.
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It Gets Things Done
Email, calendar, messages, music, web search, app control, and screen vision, chained together to finish real work.
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Local-First & Private
Nothing leaves your Mac unless you opt in. Run a private AI right on your Mac, or connect OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Cerebras, or Ollama.
Three steps
Look, No Hands!
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Download & Open
Grab the .zip, unzip, and open Dottie. No account, no installer maze. It just launches.
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Pick a Model
Start with a private AI that runs on your Mac, or connect your own account from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Cerebras or Ollama.
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Say “Hey Dottie”
Speak a request. Dottie dictates, reasons, or runs the full task end-to-end, and shows its work.
“The voice control is shockingly good. I just say ‘email John I’ll be late’ and it does it.”
Mike S.