Relay v0.1.0

First public version of Relay, a menu bar Mac assistant that acts on spoken requests.

What it does

• Hold or tap Right Option and talk: Relay opens apps, writes notes and reminders, reads your calendar, clicks through interfaces, drives Firefox and answers from the web.
• Right Command is dictation: your words are typed where the cursor is. Speech recognition is on-device (Apple SpeechAnalyzer), so no separate dictation app is needed. Talkify still works too, since the Ask box (Option+T) is a normal text field.
• Instant commands (timers, music, volume, notes, reminders, open apps) run in about a third of a second without a model call.
• Runs on Claude (your own signed-in Claude Code, an API key, or automatic Haiku/Sonnet routing) or a local Ollama model.
• Asks for confirmation before sending messages, trashing files, running shell commands or running destructive-looking AppleScript.

Requirements

macOS 26 or later. Dictation and the glass pill use new macOS 26 APIs.

Install

Download the .dmg below (arm64 for Apple Silicon, x64 for Intel) and drag Relay to Applications. It is not notarized, so the first time, right-click Relay and choose Open, or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Relay.app. You will approve Microphone, Accessibility, Screen Recording and Input Monitoring once.

Or build from source: see the README.

Claude account sign-in

Signing in with a Claude account is meant for your own use on your own Mac. Anthropic does not allow third-party apps to offer claude.ai login to others, so if you share a build, use an API key or Ollama.

Testing status

• 129 unit tests pass. The dictation helper was run on real generated speech, and the Claude runner on real tool calls through a signed-in claude.
• Live microphone dictation end to end, music control, permission prompts and AppleScript against every app have only been tried by hand. If something fails, open an issue with what History > Actions shows.

Full list of changes: CHANGELOG.md