Aide
A customizable Android assistant (voice, choose your provider)
Details
- External ID
- 47858442
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Aide
- Website domain
- aideassistant.com
- Launched
- April 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4813624678663239
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Aide is an Android app that replaces your default digital assistant. It can register as your default assistant, so corner-swipe and power-button-hold summon it instead of the Google assistant. I wanted to do something other than Google, but ChatGPT and Claude's integration couldn't do anything on device, so I built this.Bring your own key for Claude, OpenAI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM). Keys are encrypted on-device; conversations go straight to your provider.Free: chat on any provider, multi-provider switching, web search + URL fetching as built-in tools, custom system prompt, markdown.Pro ($6.99 launch week, $9.99 after, one-time): voice input + streaming TTS, voice-first overlay, photo/file attachments, device actions (SMS/calendar/alarms, every intent confirmed), screen context, Home Assistant integration.
Enrichment
- Theme
- autonomous ai agents for business
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- customizable android voice assistant
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an Android application using standard Android VoiceInteractionService / default assistant APIs to invoke LLM endpoints.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenRouter, Gemma 4, Google's Edge Gallery
Concerns raised: Custom API onboarding is tedious with unclear URL and model format requirements, Client-side and provider errors when using microphone and text queries, Pricing shown inconsistently across platforms ($9.99/$8.99 on day 2), Requires server/external model provider instead of fully local operation, Compatibility concerns with GrapheneOS
Feature requests: Allow full endpoint URL input to simplify custom API setup, Local MOE-style model to route simple requests locally and complex ones externally, Trial key or beta program access before purchase, Better error messages and debugging visibility in app
Competitors
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Attention rank: #60 of 129 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 167 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.