Flo for macOS · lives in your notch
Hold a key and talk. Flo types, drafts, remembers and reminds you, right from the notch you already have. It all runs on your Mac.
01Dictation
Hold Control anywhere and speak. Let go, and clean, punctuated text lands right where your cursor is: Slack, Mail, VS Code or any text box.
You speak three to four times faster than you type. A reply that took a minute now takes fifteen seconds.
Press and hold the button, like holding Control, then let go.
02Hindi, Gujarati & English
Tell Flo which languages you speak. Each time you talk it picks the right one by itself and writes it in the proper script.
Hindi comes out in Devanagari, Gujarati in Gujarati script, and Hindi is never mistaken for Urdu. No transliteration to clean up.
Detected Hindi from your languages. Written in Devanagari script.
Tap a language and speak it to Flo.
03Assistant that reads your screen
Hold fn and say what you need, like “draft a Dhanteras wish for the team”. Flo reads the conversation on screen and types the draft into the box you're in.
No copying context into a chatbot and pasting back. It replies in the thread's language and tone, and uses people's real names.
04Skills & MCP tools
Draw a skill on a canvas: the phrases that start it, the steps, the apps it works in, the MCP tools it may call and the docs it can read. Then say “write a proposal for this job”.
The way you like things done stops living in your head. Proposals, standups and follow-ups come out your way, every time.
05Hands-free agent
Double-tap fn and Flo keeps listening, no key held. Ask it to open apps, search, click and type, and it works your screen step by step while the notch shows every move.
Your hands stay free. And it never sends, posts, buys or deletes anything until you say “yes” out loud.
Sorry, my mistake06Learns your words
When you correct a word Flo got wrong, it notices. A small card in the notch confirms the new spelling, with Undo in case you didn't mean it.
Names, product terms and jargon stop being a fight. Say Tauri, get Tauri, every single time.
07To-dos from everywhere
Flo catches what you commit to in meetings, in Slack and on screen, and keeps it behind a tray icon in your notch. Hover to see the list.
Every item says why it's there, so you can trust the list instead of re-checking every app.
Hover or tap the to-do icon in the notch to open the list, then tick items off.
08Deadlines become reminders
When a to-do comes with a deadline, Flo works out the real date and time and files it under Reminders.
It understands “by next Monday”, “tomorrow at 5pm” and “in 2 hours”, then taps you on the shoulder 5 minutes early, right in the notch.
Budget approved for phase one.
Client: send requirements by next Monday
Design review moves to Thursday.
09Projects & clients
Give a project its client, a few details and keywords. From then on, the to-dos, notes and meetings that mention them land in that project on their own.
Open Acme and see everything Acme: what you owe them, what was said and what's next, without sorting a thing.
Onboarding v2 ships next sprint. The pricing page waits for legal sign-off. Client needs requirements before Monday.
10Meeting notes
When a Zoom, Meet or Teams call starts, the notch offers to take notes. Flo transcribes live on your Mac, then hands you a summary and the action items when the call ends.
You stay in the conversation instead of typing through it, and still know who said what and who owes what.
I'll finish the onboarding deck by Thursday.
API timeline is almost done, I'll share it Friday.
And I'll send the client the requirements before Monday.
11Claude Code in your notch
Your Claude Code sessions sit in the notch tray with a live count. When one finishes or needs your permission, the notch tells you.
No more checking tabs every two minutes. And it doesn't cry wolf: if Claude is still running background work, Flo waits until it's really done.
Allow or deny it from the notch.
12Widgets
Open the notch for live widgets: music, to-dos, Claude sessions, world clocks, weather, focus timers and a note.
The things you check fifty times a day are one glance away, and gone the moment you move on.
13Make it yours
Pick how Flo listens back: a ribbon wave, equalizer bars, a neon line, a helix of dots or sparkles. Then choose a size, a sound and a colour.
You'll see it dozens of times a day. It should feel like yours, not ours.
14Private by design
Your voice, notes and to-dos stay on your Mac in an encrypted database. Bring your own AI key, or run fully local with Ollama.
Every network call passes through one allow-list you can see, host by host. Anything not on it is blocked.
History, notes and to-dos live in an encrypted database. The key sits in your Keychain.
Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq and more. You pay them directly, we never proxy.
Run dictation and the assistant with Ollama or LM Studio. No internet needed.
The network log shows each call: which host, why, and how many tokens.
Hover a host in the notch to see why it's allowed.
Everything Flo does
The notch story covers the big moments. Here is the rest of what ships in Flo today.
Flo tells you when a new version is ready. It downloads in the background, checks the signature against the key built into the app, and one restart later you're current.
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Hinglish, Spanish, German and French, each in its own script.
Measure your real typing speed. Flo uses it to show how much time speaking saves you.
Flo Vault links your projects, people, meetings and topics into a local, Obsidian-style graph as you work. Search it, edit it, and let the assistant draw on it. Hover a node.
Open apps and sites, search, play music and change the volume, handled on your Mac with no AI call.
Unanswered DMs and @mentions become to-dos. Reply by voice; nothing sends until you confirm in the notch.
“Invoice is out, should land today.”
Words dictated, time saved, streaks and speaking pace over 7, 30 or 60 days.
Every dictation and every answer, kept on your Mac and one search away.
Bring a key for Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, MiniMax, Qwen or Ollama Cloud, or run fully local with Ollama and LM Studio. Pick a model per feature.
Pick any colour. Buttons, charts, the logo and the notch all follow it.
Tap one: the notch on this page changes with it.
Chime, Glass, Soft or Pop, set separately for each cue. Tap to hear them.
From Ribbon to Constellation, Small to Biggest. Text in the notch grows with it.
Claude Code, Codex CLI and Cursor sessions in the notch tray, plus any tool through a local webhook.
Every quick answer offers a deeper look at your screen, a web search, or the full answer in the app.
Pin notes and docs and set your own system prompt. Only the relevant pieces are sent with a request, so tokens stay low.
Every meeting with its summary, action items and transcript. Rename a speaker once and Flo knows the voice next time.
Details, due dates, snooze, and bulk complete or delete. Every to-do says where it came from.
On-device OCR reads the window you're in for things you've promised. Screenshots are never saved, and you can pause it any time.
Remap dictation and the assistant to the keys you like. If macOS grabs fn, one click fixes it.
On-device Whisper by default, with models you download and remove in Settings. Or Groq or OpenAI Whisper with your own key.
Every request Flo makes: which host, why, and how many tokens. Anything off the allow-list is blocked.
History, notes and to-dos live in an encrypted database. Its key and your API keys stay in the macOS Keychain.
Flo checks microphone, accessibility and screen access, and repairs them in one click when macOS forgets.
Off the Mac, the island sits bottom-right. Hold Right Ctrl to dictate and Right Alt for the assistant.
Sign in only to download. Your dictation, notes, to-dos and keys never touch our servers.
Everything above runs on your Mac unless you choose a cloud provider with your own key.
Behind the notch
History, notes, to-dos, your dictionary and analytics, in a dashboard that never leaves your Mac.
Compare
Everything they do, plus the things they don’t, without sending your life to someone else’s server.
| Feature | Flo | Wispr Flow | Lemon |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-device speech to text | |||
| Bring your own AI key | |||
| Fully local mode (Ollama) | |||
| Assistant that reads your screen | |||
| Live meeting notes | |||
| Claude Code / Codex / Cursor tray | |||
| Slack to-dos with confirmed send | |||
| History and memory stay on device | |||
| No word or task caps | |||
| Windows and Linux | Mac, Win, Linux | Mac, Windows | Mac |
| Price | Free, your keys | Subscription | Free, then paid |
Based on our review of the public Wispr Flow and Lemon Mac apps in November 2026. Products change; tell us if something is out of date.
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