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@erfanulfarhan erfanulfarhan released this 18 Aug 15:08
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The first release of Lens: a screen and audio aware AI assistant that runs on your own machine.

Downloads

Platform File
macOS (Apple Silicon) Lens-0.1.0-arm64.dmg
macOS (Intel) Lens-0.1.0.dmg
Windows Lens-Setup-0.1.0.exe

These builds are not code-signed yet, so the OS will warn you the first time.

  • macOS: right-click the app and choose Open, then Open again.
  • Windows: on the SmartScreen prompt, choose More info then Run anyway.

What it does

  • Ask about your screen with ⌘⇧Space. It attaches the capture and asks what you want done with it, rather than guessing.
  • Add your own documents (PDF, Word, text, markdown). Only the passages relevant to each question are used, so a large library still works with a small model.
  • Turn on listening and it transcribes a call on-device, then answers the last thing the other person said.
  • Chats are kept in a searchable sidebar, and it recalls relevant past exchanges.
  • Optional web search, off by default.

Running it for free

Install Ollama and Lens will recommend a model that fits your hardware, then download it for you. Nothing leaves your machine.

If you would rather use a key you already own, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI and Groq all work. Keys are encrypted with your OS keychain.

Using another machine's GPU: set OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0:11434 on the machine with the GPU, open port 11434, and point Lens at http://<that-ip>:11434 in Settings.

Known limits

  • The audio helper is macOS only. It needs Screen Recording, Microphone, and Speech Recognition permission, and Dictation enabled in System Settings.
  • A local model is slower than a frontier cloud model, and reasoning models such as qwen3-vl trade speed for depth. Both are switchable in the dropdown.
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