Coming soon

On your terms.

Your own personal assistant, designed to live on your Mac, run a crew of helpers, and let you check in on everything from your iPhone.

Open source soon on GitHub

It asks before it acts.

Designed to show every command in full. Allow it once, or say no.

An example chat, an early look at something still in development. You ask Nollie to install ffmpeg. Nollie searches the web, then asks your permission to run the command brew install ffmpeg. You allow it once. Nollie says it is installed.

Early look. In development.

Meet the crew.

Nollie is designed to build helpers when the work needs them. Each one has its own look.

  • Nollie

    The one you talk to

  • Research

    Finds things out

  • Files

    Keeps things tidy

  • Schedules

    Remembers for you

  • Your Mac

    Runs on a local model

  • Writing

    Drafts and edits

Examples. Nollie decides which helpers it needs, and you can undo any of them.

How it works.

In development. This is how Nollie is designed to work.

  1. Your Mac does the work

    Nollie is designed to live on your Mac. Local models first, or the ChatGPT or Claude plan you already pay for, where their terms allow it.

  2. A crew handles the jobs

    Research, files, schedules, and your Mac when you allow it. Each job goes to the helper that fits.

  3. Take Nollie with you

    Check in from your iPhone, like Messages. Approve or stop the work wherever you are.

The brains

Pick the brains.
Or mix them.

Designed to work with the models you already have, and to let you use more than one.

  • Local models

    They run on your Mac. Free to use, and designed to be private: your prompts stay on your computer.

  • Your ChatGPT or Claude plan

    Designed to let you sign in through OpenAI's or Anthropic's own sign-in and use the plan you already pay for, where their terms allow it.

  • Your own API keys

    Bring a key from a provider and pay as you go.

Mix them.

Use your plan for the hard thinking and local models for the background crew. Nollie is designed to show how much of your plan is left.

Private and local

Everyone gets one.

Every helper is designed to get its own sealed computer, running inside your Mac. It can go online, but it can't see your files, your home network or the other helpers. Risky jobs get a throwaway computer, and downloads and attachments are opened in one with the internet switched off. When Nollie uses your Mac itself, a local model does the clicking.

  • Research

    Its own browser, files and logins

  • Files

    Sleeps when it is idle

  • A risky job

    Gets a throwaway computer

One each, sealed off

Each helper is designed to get its own small Linux computer inside your Mac. It sleeps when idle. It has its own browser, files and logins, so one helper's logins stay out of reach of another. Files come in through its Inbox and go out through its Outbox, and nothing else on your Mac is in view.

Watch a helper's screen live, or take over to sign it in yourself.

Your Mac, on a local model

When a job needs your Mac, Nollie is designed to hand it to a helper on a local model, even if Nollie itself uses your ChatGPT or Claude plan. Screenshots never leave your Mac. You pick the apps it may use, and Stop is one tap away on your Mac and iPhone.

In your life

Things Nollie
can help with.

Examples of what Nollie is designed to do.

  • Pop-punk shows this weekend

    Every Saturday morning, a helper checks for small pop-punk shows near you and sends the ones worth leaving the house for. Buying tickets still asks you first.

  • A skate trip to Barcelona

    A helper maps the best spots, finds flights and somewhere to stay nearby, and links every source so you can check it.

  • That jacket, under £60

    Name the jacket and your price. A helper keeps an eye out and tells you the day it drops, not before.

  • Booking the dentist from the bus

    A helper fills in the booking form on its own computer. The final yes lands on your phone, so you confirm it from your seat.

  • Three years of screenshots, sorted

    A helper files them into folders on your Mac while you approve each step from the couch.

How it is designed

Built so you stay
in charge.

In development. Everything here is how Nollie is designed to work.

  • Runs on your Mac

    Local models first. Or use the ChatGPT or Claude plan you already pay for, where their terms allow it.

  • Easy QR code pairing

    Scan once to set up your iPhone. Designed so the link is encrypted and goes straight to your Mac, with no Nollie server in between.

  • Approvals you can read in full

    See the whole command before you say yes.

  • Stop from your pocket

    One tap on your iPhone stops the work.

  • A crew that sets itself up

    Nollie adds helpers when the work needs them. Undo any time.

  • Designed to keep nothing on our servers

    The plan is for Nollie to have no servers of its own, so we keep nothing of yours. If you use ChatGPT or Claude, they see what you send them.

A personal assistant with the off switch in your pocket.

Coming soon for macOS and iOS.

Email hello@nollie.app

Requires macOS 26 with Apple silicon.

Suggested: 16 GB of memory for local models, 32 GB or more for larger models and using your Mac, and about 25 GB of free space. 8 GB works with a ChatGPT or Claude plan.