Freu AI
Automate any Mac app with $0 recurring run cost
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Freu AI is an AI agent for Mac that automates any desktop app with natural language. It “sees” your UI to compile a cross‑app workflow once, then runs it locally via a deterministic DSL—no brittle coordinates/selectors and no recurring token bills. Bonus: we’re open‑sourcing freu-cli (our browser automation engine) today.
PH · launched May 24, 2026 · 294 upvotes (top 36%) · 1 view
Niche: computer and browser automation agents · 127 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -90% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
- Business Intelligence
- Marketing automation
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Could you build this?
Partial Automating macOS UI via AppleScript or standard accessibility APIs is doable, but compiling visual UI interaction into a reliable, coordinate-independent deterministic DSL without recurring model costs requires custom local vision-to-state mapping.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a native macOS daemon (Swift/Objective-C) interfacing directly with the macOS Accessibility API (AXUIElement) and screen capture frameworks (ScreenCaptureKit). The hard engineering problem is the compilation step: using a vision model once to parse arbitrary visual hierarchies into a semantic accessibility tree, then generating a robust deterministic local DSL script that can replay actions reliably across OS updates and window resizing without re-prompting an LLM.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 356 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #155 of 357 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 193 days after the earliest competitor.
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