Boltbar
Spotlight-style AI chat for your Mac
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Boltbar is a native macOS AI chat bar. Press ⌥ Space in any app to ask GPT or Claude, then get back to work. Agent mode hands Claude Code or Codex a project with Look/Ask/Edit/Full permissions. MIT, signed and notarized; brew or DMG. Optional €19 supporter license.
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PH · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 68 upvotes (top 3%)
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
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Yes A global-hotkey chat bar that calls GPT and Claude APIs and launches coding agents is a standard native macOS app built in Swift, with signing and distribution being well-trodden.
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Attention rank: #38 of 288 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
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