Wisp
Highlight anything on your Mac, get the answer right there
Details
- External ID
- 1261726
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Wisp
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Artificial Intelligence
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Press a shortcut, drag over anything on your Mac's screen (notes, PDFs, videos, charts, code, even text you can't select), and Wisp answers, translates, summarizes or explains it right where you are. No copy-paste, no switching windows. Pick your AI: Gemini (free key), OpenAI, or fully offline with Ollama or LM Studio. Only the area you drag is captured, and there are no Wisp servers. Invisible Ink shows answers as faint, movable text.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai voice dictation and transcription tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- screen highlight search and answer assistant for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Global screen capture overlay, OCR extraction, and multi-model integration on macOS requires deep macOS system APIs and accessibility permissions.
What it would actually take: Built with Swift/AppKit, it requires implementing a global floating overlay window, capturing arbitrary screen regions using ScreenCaptureKit, running local Apple Vision OCR or passing image frames to multimodal LLMs, and supporting local inference via Ollama or Apple Silicon MLX. Fine-tuning local context grabbing and managing accessibility/screen recording permissions reliably are tricky system-level hurdles.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 67 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #41 of 68 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
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