Answer from the live web
Ask about today's news, a price, a score, or a fact that has changed since any model was trained. Crodo searches, answers from the results, and names the source instead of guessing.
Voice AI chat for Mac
Ask Out Loud Without Opening Anything
Hold a key, ask your question, and the answer arrives where you are already working - already on your clipboard. And because it can search the web, read your calendar, and open your apps, it does more than answer.
Free · No browser tab · macOS 14.2 or later · Apple silicon
Voice AI chat
Asked on a hotkey
You said
Am I free after lunch, and remind me at five to send the invoice.
Two requests, one sentence · calendar checked, reminder created
Crodo
Free 1:30 – 4:00
Product sync at 4:00 is your next commitment.
Reminder · 5:00 PM
Send the invoice.
Why it is not just a chatbot
It can act, not just answer.
A chat window can only talk back. This one reaches the live web, your calendar, your inbox, your task list, your saved facts, your recorded meetings, and the apps on your Mac - and it uses them without being told which to use.
Act on your real day
With Gmail, Google Calendar, or Slack connected, ask what came in this morning or whether you are free at three - and have it draft the reply or create the event.
Remember and track
Tell it something worth keeping and it saves it. Ask for a task or a reminder and it creates one. Ask what is open on a project and it reads your list back.
Open things and look things up
Say “open Slack” and it launches. Ask what was decided on a recorded call and it searches your meeting transcripts for the answer.
What you can say
Say it the way you would to a person.
No syntax, no commands to memorise. Two requests in one sentence works fine.
“What happened in the markets today?”
Searches the web and answers from current results, with the source named.
“Rewrite this so it is shorter.”
Uses whatever text you have selected in the app in front of you.
“Am I free tomorrow at three?”
Checks your real calendar rather than guessing.
“Remind me at five to send the invoice.”
Works out the actual time from your Mac's clock and sets it.
“Open Safari.”
Launches the app, mid-conversation, without reaching for the Dock.
“What did we decide about pricing?”
Searches your recorded calls and answers from the transcript.
How it works
Hotkey in, clipboard out.
The whole loop happens without leaving the app you are in.
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Hold your AI hotkey and ask out loud. If you have text selected anywhere on screen, it comes along as context automatically.
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Crodo transcribes your question and sends it with your Mac's real local time, so “today” and “5pm” mean what you meant.
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The assistant answers - calling tools first when the question needs the web, your calendar, your tasks, or your past meetings.
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The answer streams onto your screen as it arrives, and lands on your clipboard the moment it finishes.
The details that make it usable
Small things, every single time.
It remembers the last dozen turns
Follow-ups work the way they should. Ask “what about Thursday?” after a calendar question and it knows what you mean, because the recent conversation travels with each request.
It reads what you have selected
Highlight a paragraph anywhere and ask about it - no copying. Crodo reads the selection through macOS's Accessibility API, and where an app does not expose one, it falls back to a copy and puts your clipboard back exactly as it was.
The answer copies itself
When the response finishes, it is already on your clipboard. Paste it into the email, ticket, or document you were writing without touching the mouse.
It knows what time it actually is
Every question carries your Mac's real local time. “Tomorrow morning”, “in twenty minutes”, and “next Tuesday” resolve against your clock, not a server's timezone.
One thing worth being clear about: you speak the question, but the answer is written, not spoken. It streams onto your screen and copies itself - Crodo does not read replies back to you.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Does Crodo speak the answers out loud?
No. You speak the question; the answer appears as text on screen, streaming in as it is generated, and copies itself to your clipboard when it finishes. Replies are written to be short and conversational rather than long and formatted, so they are quick to read - but Crodo does not read them back to you.
How is this different from opening ChatGPT?
Three things. It is a hotkey rather than a tab, so there is nothing to switch to. It can act - searching the web, reading your calendar, creating tasks and reminders, opening apps, looking through your recorded meetings - not just answer. And the reply lands on your clipboard, so it goes straight into whatever you were writing.
Does it remember previous questions?
Yes, the last twelve messages of the conversation travel with each request, so follow-ups keep their context. Separately, it has long-term memory: tell it something durable about a project or a person and it can recall that weeks later.
Can it use text I have highlighted?
Yes, automatically. Select text in any Mac app and ask about it - explain this, shorten this, what is wrong with this. Crodo reads the selection through the Accessibility API, and for apps that do not expose one it briefly uses a copy and restores your clipboard afterwards.
Can it search the internet?
Yes. When a question needs current information - news, prices, scores, anything that has changed recently - it searches and answers from real results, telling you where the answer came from rather than inventing one.
Can it actually do things, or only answer?
It acts. It can create tasks and reminders, save and recall facts, create and list projects, open apps on your Mac, search your recorded meetings, and - with Gmail, Google Calendar, or Slack connected - read your mail, check your availability, draft replies, and create events.
Does it work offline?
No. Both transcription and the assistant run in the cloud, so an internet connection is required.
Is it a Siri replacement?
For the things people actually want from a desktop assistant - answering real questions, working with your inbox and calendar, remembering context, drafting text - Crodo does considerably more. It does not control system settings or work on iPhone, so it is a complement to Siri rather than a swap.
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