Always in context
The owl peeks from the edge of your screen. Open notes, or let it follow the app you’re in. What you’re looking at comes along for the ride — no copy-paste briefing.
Always with you
The owl that keeps the thread.
Athene is a local-first AI assistant for Mac. A floating owl lives at the edge of your screen — capture notes, record meetings, rewrite replies, and ask across everything you’ve seen, without leaving the app you’re in.
For Mac · Free to try
Windows is on the way. You can still download Athene for Mac.
Features
Athene sits with you while you work. It remembers context so you don’t have to paste it into yet another chat box.
The owl peeks from the edge of your screen. Open notes, or let it follow the app you’re in. What you’re looking at comes along for the ride — no copy-paste briefing.
Jot a thought against Slack, a doc, or a tab. Next time you open that screen, Athene brings the same note back.
Ask in plain language. Athene looks through your notes, todos, and memory first — then answers with the context already in hand.
Hit a shortcut and Athene rewrites the message you’re typing — in your voice, using the conversation on screen. Ready to send.
Record a call, get a transcript with speakers, then turn it into notes for meetings, 1:1s, lectures, interviews, or voice memos. Action items drop straight into Todos.
Search what you copied. Keep it for a week or forever — you decide how long it stays.
Capture tasks as they appear, or pull them out of a meeting summary. Deadlines and check-off live right beside your notes and chats.
People, projects, and decisions build up as you work. Ask “what did we decide?” and Athene looks it up first.
How it works
A small owl peeks from the side of your desktop. Click, hover, or hit a shortcut. Notes, chats, todos, and meetings are one panel away.
Notes attach to whatever you’re looking at. Meetings record in the background. Athene can remember the apps you switch between, and keep what you copy.
When you ask, Athene already has your notes, meetings, and memory nearby — so you almost never have to explain the context.
Shortcuts
Every shortcut is yours to change. These are the defaults.
Local-first
Athene is built as a second brain, not a cloud vault. Notes, meetings, and memory stay on your Mac. Only what’s needed to help you is ever sent out — and meeting transcripts can stay on your computer entirely.
Get started
Download for Mac today. Windows is coming soon.