AI Chat
Native chat and Quick AI, with your own provider key.
A full chat window and a Quick AI mode inside Command Center. Ask from anywhere, then continue the conversation in the chat window when a quick answer isn't enough.
Interactive illustration with sample values.
What it does
- Streaming answers with Markdown, code blocks, and tables
- Model picker built from the live OpenRouter catalog, with context and pricing details
- Separate controls for model, web search, and reasoning effort
- Quick AI: press Tab in Command Center to ask, ⌘J to continue in the chat window
- Optional selected-text capture and pasteback of the answer
- PDF, image, and text attachments with previews — up to eight files per message
- Conversation history stored locally
- Access
- Opt-in actions
- Where you find it
- Own windowCommand Center
- Permissions
- An OpenRouter API key to send messages, stored in the macOS Keychain. Accessibility only if you enable selected-text capture or pasteback.
Deliberate limits
- Requests go from your Mac straight to OpenRouter — there is no MacUtilityHub account or relay server.
- Attachments are prepared locally; original file paths are not kept.
- No agent tool runtime and no script execution.
Private beta
Help shape a calmer way to look after your Mac.
A small group of testers is using MacUtilityHub before its public release. See what the beta includes and what it needs to run.