Native macOS · runs entirely on your Mac

Talk to your Mac.
It does the thing.

Blink is a menu-bar AI companion. Hold a key and ask — it reads your screen, replies in voice, and drives your apps for you. Click buttons, open apps, run searches, fill text. No pixel guessing.

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Free & open source · macOS 14.2+ · Apple Silicon & Intel

Three steps, then it's just there.

1.0TALK

Hold to ask

Press and hold the hotkey for voice, or double-tap for the text bar. Ask in plain language — "what is this", "click Stop Sharing", "open github.com".

2.0SEE

It reads the screen

Blink captures what you're looking at and maps the live interface through the macOS Accessibility tree — buttons, fields, menus, the works — as structured data, not pixels.

3.0ACT

It acts

Answers out loud, or clicks, types and navigates for you — across whatever app is in front of you. When a label misses, it inspects the UI and finds the right target.

An assistant that can see and act

Voice push-to-talk

Hold a hotkey, ask anything, let go. Blink answers in a sentence or two and only speaks when you ask it to.

Text mode

Double-tap to summon a floating composer at your cursor. Slash commands and @ mentions inline, same brain as voice.

Agentic UI control

Finds buttons, menus, links and checkboxes through the Accessibility tree and invokes them by label. When a label misses, it calls inspect_ui to see what's really on screen, then clicks the right thing.

Sees your screen

ScreenCaptureKit feeds the model on demand, against your actual windows.

App-aware knowledge

Built-in answers for Onshape, Blender, Photoshop, Illustrator and Figma — "how do I extrude this" uses the bundled knowledge base.

Retrieval-augmented answers

RAG grounds replies in real sources: it semantically searches the bundled knowledge base for the passages that match your question, then answers from those — not from a guess.

Cross-session memory

With a local vector store, Blink recalls relevant past conversations, scoped to the app you're in.

Agent Mode

Hand off longer jobs — research, refactors, file work — and Blink runs them in the background through a bundled Codex runtime, without taking over your screen.

Local-only by design

API keys live on your Mac in ~/.config/blink. Nothing routes through a hosted proxy, and your screen never leaves your control. A local control bridge lets other trusted apps drive the overlay.

Get Blink

Download the disk image, drag Blink to Applications, and grant the permissions it asks for on first launch. After that it lives in your menu bar and starts automatically at login.

Download Blink.dmg

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  1. 01

    Open the disk image

    Double-click the downloaded Blink.dmg to mount it.

  2. 02

    Drag Blink to Applications

    Drop the Blink icon onto the Applications folder, then eject the image.

  3. 03

    Open it the first time

    This build isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS blocks the first launch. The reliable fix: open Terminal and run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Blink.app, then double-click Blink. (GUI alternative: right-click Blink → Open; if only Move to Trash appears, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.) You only do this once.

  4. 04

    Grant permissions

    Approve Accessibility, Screen Recording and Microphone in System Settings → Privacy & Security.

macOS 14.2+

Sonoma or newer. Apple Silicon and Intel.

Your own API keys

Anthropic for replies, ElevenLabs for voice. Stored locally, never synced.

A few permissions

Accessibility, Screen Recording, Microphone — granted once.