Instant AI overlay for macOS. Hit Ctrl+Space, type a prompt, press Enter. The streaming reply lands on screen and on your clipboard.
No accounts. No keys. No setup. Just open the overlay and ask.
The overlay slides in from anywhere on your Mac. The hotkey is configurable.
Ask anything. Draft a sentence. Translate a phrase. Explain a concept. Then press Enter.
The reply streams in real time and is auto-copied to your clipboard. Paste it anywhere.
Built to disappear into your workflow. One hotkey, one prompt, instant answer.
Global hotkey from any app. Default Ctrl+Space, fully configurable in settings.
Tokens arrive as the model generates. No waiting for the full response.
Every reply lands on your clipboard automatically. Paste it into the next app you touch.
Math expressions bypass the AI entirely. Computed locally and instantly. Always correct.
Tiny icon, no Dock clutter. Launch at login optional. Quick access to settings and updates.
No API keys. No network calls. No data ever leaves your Mac. Open source under MIT.
apfel-quick detects math expressions and computes them locally. Instant. Scientifically correct. Never hallucinated.
European decimal commas, parentheses, exponents, and scientific functions are all supported. The AI is bypassed entirely.
Operators: + − × ÷ ^ ( )
Functions: sqrt, sin, cos, tan, log, ln, abs, floor, ceil, round
Constants: pi, e Decimals: both 1.5 and 1,5
apfel-quick uses the on-device foundation model on your Mac. You need all three.
Required for the on-device foundation model. Update via System Settings > Software Update.
The on-device model runs on-chip only. About This Mac must show M1, M2, M3, or M4.
Turn on the on-device foundation model in System Settings. Supports English, German, French, Spanish, and more.
Free, signed, and notarised. Apple Silicon only. Pick your favourite way to install.
Download the zip, unzip, drag apfel-quick.app to your Applications folder, and open it. The first-run welcome explains the rest.
Download v1.0.0Best for developers. Stays up to date with brew upgrade apfel-quick and uninstalls cleanly.
brew install Arthur-Ficial/tap/apfel-quick
Building from source? Clone the repo at github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel-quick and run make install.
apfel-quick is a tiny native overlay built on top of apfel, an open-source CLI and OpenAI-compatible server that wraps the on-device foundation model on your Mac. apfel handles inference. apfel-quick handles the hotkey, the overlay UI, the streaming, the clipboard, and the local math shortcut.
Need a full multi-conversation chat app instead? Try apfel-chat, the sister app with persistent history, voice input, and image analysis.
MIT-licensed. Use it, fork it, ship it. Bug reports, pull requests, and feature ideas all welcome.