Every file, by what is inside it
Not just the name. It reads the document to be sure it found the right one.
Available for macOSWindows
A personal assistant for your whole computer
Speak to it or type to it. Key opens your apps, finds your files and changes your settings — then tells you what it did.
- Free, no card
- Runs on your own laptop
- Stops before paying
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Things people actually ask it
01How you reach it
Speak to it,
or type to it
Both are the same assistant. Neither one is a cut-down version of the other. Try the switch.
Voice — from across the room
Ask out loud. Key answers out loud too, in a normal sentence, and gets on with the job while you carry on.
Chat — for the quiet moments
The same assistant in a chat box, for when you are somewhere quiet or the request is long enough that saying it out loud is the harder way.
Same assistant, same answer — switch between them whenever you like.
02The difference
It runs your computer, not a copy of it
There is nothing to connect. Key drives the same windows you drive, so the result is the same as if you had done it yourself.
Every app you already use
Mail, the browser, documents, the settings. It opens the real window and presses the real button.
A browser of its own
Key drives its own copy of Chrome, so it never touches your tabs. Sign in once and it stays signed in.
Your files stay on your laptop
Key opens and moves your files where they already are — it never uploads them. Your documents, photos and folders stay exactly where you put them.
One assistant, always there
It sits at the top of your screen until you need it.
03How one request runs
Four steps, every time
In the order they happen — no magic in between.
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You ask
In your own words, out loud or typed. Half a sentence is enough.
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02
It works it out
What you meant, which file, which app. If two things match, it asks.
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03
It does it
In the real app, behind your work. Nothing is simulated.
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It checks, then tells you
It reads the result back. If it could not check, it says so.
04What it will not do
Four things it will never do
Something that can use your whole computer has to be trustworthy about what it refuses. These four are built into the program, each with a test behind it.
BUILT-IN RULES
Each one is enforced by the program itself — not a setting you have to remember to switch on.
It never deletes.
Anything Key removes goes to the Recycle Bin or the Trash, where you can put it straight back. There is no permanent delete in the program at all.
Moved to the Recycle Bin — 3 items, restorable
It stops before paying.
Key fills a checkout in completely and then waits. Your yes covers that one payment, on that one site, once. It is never remembered for next time.
Everything is filled in. Shall I place the order?
It never types a password.
A login screen is yours. Key tells you what is being asked for and goes no further, on any site, every time. It does not store one either.
Sign in to continue — Key stopped here
It never says done blindly.
Key looks at the result before it reports it. And when it genuinely could not check, it tells you that instead of pretending it worked.
Checked: read the file back off the disk, 318 KB
05What it costs
Get Key free
Free to download — no card and no trial.
Key AssistantFree plan$0No card, no trial
Every feature of Key, with none held back for a version that costs money.
What’s included
Speak or type
The same assistant either way — switch whenever you like.
Your apps, files and settings
It opens them, finds them and changes them.
A browser of its own
Its own copy of Chrome, so it never touches your tabs.
The four built-in rules
On every job — not a setting you have to remember.
It checks its own work
It reads the result back, and says so when it could not.
Nothing held back
No trial that runs out and no seat to pay for.
Windows
macOS 11 or newer
Runs on your own laptop
06Questions
Questions people ask first
Pick a question and Key answers it.
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Do I have to talk to it, or can I type?
Either, and you can switch whenever you like. The microphone and the chat run exactly the same assistant and give exactly the same result. Speak when your hands are busy or you are across the room; type when you are somewhere quiet or the request is long.
Which computers does it run on?
Any Mac running macOS 11 Big Sur or newer — Intel and Apple Silicon, one download for both. And Windows 10 or 11. It is the same assistant either way: the same voice, the same chat, the same rules.
Can it spend my money?
Only when you press the button yourself. Key will fill a checkout in completely and then stop and wait. Your yes covers that one payment, on that one site, once, and it is never remembered for next time.
Can it remind me of things?
Yes. Tell it what and when, the way you would tell a friend, and Key keeps it and speaks up when the time comes. When a meeting turns up in your messages, it can put it in your calendar and remind you before it starts.
Will it get in my way while I am working?
It stays out of the way at the top of your screen until you speak to it or open the chat. When it is working it shows a small panel so you can see what it is doing, and you can stop it at any point.
What happens if it gets something wrong?
It tells you. Key reads the result back before reporting success, so a failure comes back as a failure rather than a false done. Nothing is permanently deleted, so a wrong move can be put back.