It lives in your notch.
On Mac, SKI docks into the notch — black, flush with the menu bar, always in the same place; on a Mac without a physical notch it draws its own. On Windows it floats as a pill wherever you park it. Either way it rests as a quiet bar, then springs down into the full loop when there’s something to say.
Hear it work: it rests listening, springs open to think, then answers in violet — then folds back to the bezel.
Built for the way developers talk.
Every detail tuned for a real back-and-forth voice loop.
On-device, all of it
Speech-to-text and the voice both run on your own machine. Nothing you say ever leaves it.
Hears & speaks locally
Local speech in, a natural neural voice out — no cloud, works offline.
Live agent status
A green dot shows your agent is actually listening — real-time, not polled.
Full-duplex barge-in
Talk over the agent and still be heard cleanly on open speakers — no push-to-talk. It knows when you're done and sends the thought whole.
A voice per project
Bind several repos at once; each answers in its own voice and routes to whichever one you're addressing.
Screenshots on demand
Hit the hotkey to grab your screen — it rides along with your next spoken request. Your agent can grab one itself, too, when it needs to see what you see.
Calendar auto-join
Connect Google Calendar and SKI sends your agent — participant or silent notetaker — into a meeting or recurring series, right on time. The meeting's project just has to be connected and active.
Offline meeting recorder
Record any meeting right on your machine — your mic plus the room audio — unlimited, no bot in the call, nothing uploaded.
Two ways into the room.
Local meeting transcriber
Capture mic + system audio from Zoom, Meet, or Teams — transcribed on-device with speaker-tagged tracks.
- Unlimited recording time and retention
- Zero cloud — audio never leaves the machine
- Live transcript while the meeting runs
- Export to Markdown or plain text
Your agent, in the meeting
Paste a meeting URL into the widget and your coding agent joins the call as a live participant — speaking, listening, presenting.
- Agentic or notetaker — talks and helps, or silently takes notes
- Speaker-diarized transcript — tagged by who said what
- Sees the screen, screenshares, reads & sends chat
- Google Meet, Teams, Zoom — or create one from the widget
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One skill for every agent.
Plain answers to plain questions.
What is SKI?
A small floating app for your Mac or PC that lets you talk out loud to your AI coding assistant — and hear it answer in a natural voice.
What's a "coding agent"?
An AI assistant developers run alongside their code — tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or Gemini CLI. It can read files, write code, run tests, and answer questions. SKI gives it ears and a voice.
How does SKI actually work?
You speak; SKI turns it into text on your machine and hands it to your coding agent. The agent does the work — reads files, writes code, runs tests — then sends its reply back to SKI, which speaks it aloud in a natural voice and shows it in the pill or notch. A full spoken round-trip, over plain files in your own project.
What is silent mode?
Silent mode keeps SKI listening and replying, but the agent's answers appear only as text in the pill or notch — not spoken aloud (handy in a quiet room or on a call). It's the mirror of mute: mute silences your mic going in; silent silences the agent's voice coming out.
Do I have to keep the mic on the whole time?
No — mute it any time and SKI stops listening and releases the mic. On Mac you can also use the globe / fn key: tap to mute or unmute, or hold it as push-to-talk (Mac only; opt-in, needs one macOS permission).
How is this different from other voice tools?
Most are speech-to-text dictation — they put your words in a box and stop. SKI is a two-way voice loop for coding agents: it answers out loud, and it shows you what your agent is doing. Different job.
Do I need an internet connection?
No. Listening, understanding, and speaking all happen on your own machine. The only feature that touches the internet is sending your agent into a video meeting — and that's optional.
Is my voice recorded or sent anywhere?
No. Your voice becomes text on your own machine and is never uploaded. There's no cloud service listening in — there is nothing to upload to.
How much does it cost?
Free forever on Mac and Windows — register once, no credit card. Voice features and the meeting transcriber are all included. You only pay if you want your agent to join video calls through AgentCall — per minute, with free hours included.
How does SKI record meetings?
Two ways. Record locally — free, unlimited, on-device: SKI captures your mic and the meeting audio on separate tracks and transcribes them on your machine; nobody joins the call and nothing is uploaded (no per-speaker diarization in this mode). Send your agent in via AgentCall (cloud): a bot joins as an agentic participant (talks, answers, screenshares, sees the screen, reads and sends chat) or a silent notetaker, with a speaker-diarized transcript, connected to your project — the one paid feature, billed per minute with free hours included.
Where do my transcripts and sessions live?
In a built-in Transcripts window that lists your meetings, your voice sessions, and your local recordings — view, edit, copy, export (Markdown or plain text), or delete, all on your machine.
What do I need to run it?
An Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) on macOS 14.4 (Sonoma) or newer, or a PC on Windows 11 or 10. English today; more languages planned.
Is it the same app on Mac and Windows?
Yes — same voice loop, same agents, same on-device privacy, free for life on both. On Mac it docks into the notch (even on Macs without a physical notch); on Windows the pill floats wherever you drop it. Linux is on the list.
Just ski it.
Free for life. Register once — no card — and the voice loop, the meeting transcriber, everything on-device is yours forever. You pay only if your agent joins calls through AgentCall.