Alter
Talk to your Mac. Get stuff done—fast.
Alter is the Mac AI assistant that lets you get stuff done fast. Just talk naturally to extract insights from YouTube videos, draft perfect emails, or turn messy meetings into clear action items. It understands what's on your screen and works across your apps, bringing intelligence to your entire day.
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Reviews praise Alter’s speed, native feel, and deep Mac integration that cuts window juggling and speeds everyday tasks like summaries, email drafting, and YouTube insights. Users highlight context-awareness across apps, smart pasting, and strong privacy with local model support. Developers commend rapid updates, stability, and useful API access for custom workflows. Some note it stands out after trying many assistants and has become their most-used app. A lone negative review appears misattributed to another product, but overall sentiment emphasizes reliability, polish, and meaningful time savings.
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How people rate Alter
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Alter is like a personal assistant a keystroke away. I love the built-in and user-customizable actions, which I use throughout the day to blow through work. Many models available, and the available privacy-focused models (no data retention, no training, etc.) are a great offering.
I tried many AI tools and only Alter is the one I use every single day. It’s ‘package’ is awesome…chats, many models, tools, actions, automations, meeting transcripts with parakeet and very accurate diarization. A dream for a customized like me. But what I love the most is the discord community and the clockwork Friday releases. You have a direct line to the founders and more than a few times something I shared found its way into the next release. What I miss is a proper chat interface and an easier way to get to my history to continue chats, but the team says they are working on it.
A product that I really enjoy that makes my life easier!
I've tried many of the usual suspects for Mac front-ends, but this is by far the best, not only in terms of value for money but also how resource-light it is (even on my Intel Mac). I've used Cherry Studio, Witsy, Msty, Enconvo, and BoltAI. The key difference is AlterHQ's access to the latest models and its impressive speed.
The developers are very active, and their selection of LLMs is remarkably solid. As someone who uses AI a great deal, I wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone seeking a simple, intuitive, and Apple-esque experience.