Control your Mac with your voice
Talk to your Mac and Iris opens, clicks, types and searches for you. With Claude Code it does whole jobs across your apps, and asks before it sends, deletes or pays.
Free beta for Macs with Apple silicon. Works with or without Claude Code.
Not one more assistant. Nine tools of your Mac, in one.
Everything, in one drop.
Nine tools, one Iris. Many work without Claude Code too.
What you can do
Fewer steps, same result.
Hands-free · no AI on the way
Say «Iris, hands-free» and keep talking: no wake word between commands, no model in the middle. Each command runs in a fraction of a second and shows what it did beside the notch. It works without Claude Code.
Apps · windows and tabs · search · menus and buttons by name · desktops · typing
The pocket · without Claude Code
Click the drop and its pocket opens: a shelf for files, text, images and links, the apps and folders you use most, and a field to type to Iris when you’d rather not speak. Drag something onto the drop and it takes it. It all stays on your Mac.
It also opens with ⌥⇧Space or a ⌃-click on the notch. With the drop off, drag something towards the notch and a small drawer opens for it.
Clipboard · without Claude Code
Iris keeps your last 50 copies: text, links, images and files. Press ⌃⌥V, type to search and paste with Return. It all stays on your Mac, and it never takes anything from password fields. You turn it on in Settings.
⌘V stays as it always was.
Dictation · cleaner with Claude Code
Put the cursor where you want to write, hold fn and speak. When you let go your words are already there, without the «um»s. With Claude Code they also come cleaned up: say «actually» and the last version stays. Never into password fields.
Double tap fn and keep dictating without holding it.
What it does for you
When it can't do something yet
Ask for something Iris has no way to do yet. It builds what's missing, tries it, and shows you exactly what it made. Nothing is kept without your yes.
Iris writes a small program (Swift, AppleScript or a shell script), builds it and shows you a card with the program inside. Say yes and it becomes one of its tools. A command never sends, deletes, writes files, types, clicks or goes online: the app refuses any program that tries.
Say “when I say work mode, quit everything and open Terminal.” Iris does it once, checks it worked, and keeps it. Next time it runs at once, with no AI call. Ask for the same thing twice, the same way, and it learns it on its own.
When a job takes a detour, Iris notes what worked. When the same job keeps coming back, it writes the method down as a skill and asks you before keeping it.
Building a command or a skill needs Claude Code. Routines it has learned run without it.
The real Iris on a demo Mac, recorded in real time.
“Here's the email for Jane Okafor. Go ahead?” One yes, and the Aurora quote, laid out like the Riverside one, is on its way: €9,711.20 with VAT.
“Monday's meeting is ready: a note with Diego's three points, and the Q4 deck open.”
“It's in the File menu of Notes, under Export as PDF. I've marked the spots on your screen.” You click File, and the guide moves on to the next spot.
“Here's the email for Patrick. Go ahead?” One yes, and the summary goes to him as a PDF.
“Here is the moka pot.” Then, on the whiteboard: heat builds steam pressure in the lower chamber, and that pressure pushes the water up through the coffee.
“I'm watching the Aurora brief download.” When it lands: “It's now in Clients/Aurora, and I've emailed it to Jane.” The mail asks first.
Your apps quit, Terminal connects to the work server and starts a session, the inbox opens beside it, with no AI call: «work mode · without Claude».
“You have nothing named Sunday, so I put on Brunch.” Told “No, not that. Sunday means jazz. Remember that.”: “Noted: Sunday means jazz.”
The orb
Iris lives in the light round your screen. When you ask, that light gathers into a drop; while it works it rests low, clear of your windows; when it is done it melts back into the edge. If you like, it stays out and lives by itself.
Six looks
How often you see it
Only the light round the screen.
Out while it works for you, then gone.
A short visit after you have been away.
Keeps you company, livelier when you rest.
Pull it out with the mouse and let it go: it flies, and splashes into the edge it hits. It never moves, raises or clicks your windows.
The app's own orb, running live in this page. Pull it.
With or without Claude Code
Claude Code is optional. Without it, Iris runs on your Mac alone and sends your words to no AI service. Connect Claude Code, with a Claude plan or an API key, and Iris understands anything you ask, however you put it.
All on your Mac
With your Claude plan or API key
Why you can trust Iris
It asks first.
Say “stop”, or press ⌥⎋, and everything stops: the voice, the actions, every process it started.
It also shows you where, and learns your routines.
What goes where
Your audio, the wake word, Iris's voice, your dictation history and your profile.
Your requests, your dictations to clean up, and what your connected services return, through your own Claude Code login. Without Claude Code, your words go to no AI service. Iris has no server and no AI of its own.
No telemetry, no analytics, no account. Nothing leaves your Mac without your click: a problem report or the beta's weekly report, you read it first and send it yourself. The only other thing we keep is your email for the beta, deleted within 3 months after it ends.
Stays on your Mac
Goes to your AI provider, with Claude Code
Your requests and dictations
What your connected services return
Through your own Claude Code login.
Without Claude Code, your words go to no AI service.
Iris has no server and no AI of its own.
Your AI provider
Hidden from screen sharing and recordings by default. Apps you block are never read, clicked or typed into.
No. Without it Iris runs on your Mac alone: the wake word, its voice, quick actions, hands-free mode, dictation (your words as you say them) and the routines you've taught it. With Claude Code it understands anything you ask, in your own words, cleans up what you dictate and does whole jobs across your apps.
The beta is free. Without Claude Code it already controls your Mac by voice. For whole jobs it uses Claude Code, which you install and sign in to yourself: with a Claude plan that includes it, or with an API key. Usage counts on your own Anthropic account. Iris adds no subscription of its own.
An early beta: expect rough edges. The weekly report is how you tell us what breaks.
Macs with Apple silicon on macOS 26 or later.
Claude Code is Anthropic's command-line app for Claude. Iris uses it behind the scenes; you install it and sign in once, with a Claude plan or an API key (Iris's setup walks you through it), and never have to open it again. No coding needed.
English and Italian, for listening, answering and dictation.
Only as a last resort. Iris uses your connected services first, then each app's own scripting, and the screen and the mouse only when nothing else works. It asks for the Screen Recording permission for those cases.
They are rebuilt from real recordings of Iris on a demo Mac.
No. Iris is an independent project. It uses the Claude Code you install and sign in to yourself. How Anthropic counts third-party tools may change.
Free beta
Free for anyone who wants to try it, on a Mac with Apple silicon. Claude Code is optional.
Iris is in beta for testers: the first time it opens, it asks you to join the programme.
Free beta · macOS 26 or later · Macs with Apple silicon · from the official Releases on GitHub
Join the first 100 active testers: exclusive perks when Iris is released.**Beta terms apply.
Drag Iris to Applications, then open it from there.
First time: macOS asks before opening it. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security and click «Open Anyway».
