Skip to content

AssistantHighlight

Highlight AI

A desktop AI assistant that sees your screen and works across every app.

Categories
AssistantMeeting
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Local
Platforms
macOS
Models
Multi-model
Verified
Jun 21, 2026

Highlight AI is a desktop assistant that reads on-screen context across the apps you use, so you can ask about and act on whatever you're looking at without copying it into a chat box. It captures screen content, voice, and documents to answer questions, summarize, and transcribe meetings locally. A free tier offers unlimited chat with auto-selected base models; Pro unlocks premium frontier models and cloud transcription.

Pros & cons

  • Reads on-screen context across all apps
  • Free tier with unlimited base-model chat
  • Local audio transcription
  • Auto-selects a model per task
  • Desktop only (no mobile)
  • Some features still in transition
  • Premium models gated to Pro credits

Tags

Further reading

Alternatives to Highlight AI (3)

View all Assistant →
  • View Cluely details
    MeetingFREEMIUM

    Cluely

    Cluely

    Real-time AI meeting assistant — answers and notes during the call.

    Cluely is a desktop and mobile assistant that listens to your meetings, interviews, and sales calls and surfaces real-time notes and answers as an on-screen overlay. It markets an 'undetectable' mode that hides the overlay from screen-sharing software so other participants can't see it. The startup launched in April 2025 and raised $15M from Andreessen Horowitz, repositioning from its viral 'cheat on everything' origins into a mainstream meeting assistant.

    Real-time, in-call answers and notes
    'Undetectable' mode raises consent concerns
    • meeting-assistant
    • real-time
    • notetaker
    • overlay
    Open
  • View ChatGPT details
    AssistantFREEMIUM

    ChatGPT

    OpenAI

    The default AI assistant. Chat, voice, vision, and a tool ecosystem.

    OpenAI's consumer assistant — multimodal chat with voice, image input, web browsing, code, and custom GPTs. The product that put generative AI in everyone's hands.

    Largest user base and ecosystem
    OpenAI models only
    • chat
    • assistant
    • multimodal
    • voice
    Open
  • View Claude details
    AssistantFREEMIUM

    Claude

    Anthropic

    Anthropic's assistant. Thoughtful, long-context, strong at code + writing.

    The Claude consumer app — chat with Projects, artifacts, file analysis, and MCP connectors. Known for careful reasoning, large context, and being a strong writing + coding partner.

    Artifacts for live, editable outputs
    Anthropic models only
    • chat
    • assistant
    • writing
    • coding
    • +1
    Open
Open Highlight AI