# Dotie — Full Content > Single-file dump of all page content on https://dotie.app, intended for LLM ingestion. For a structured index, see https://dotie.app/llms.txt. --- ## Home — https://dotie.app/ ### Stop tab-switching. Start asking. Dotie is an AI buddy for your Mac. Press a shortcut, ask out loud, and get answers from whatever's on your screen — code, designs, docs, anything. ### How you use it 1. Press Command + Space twice to wake Dotie next to your cursor 2. Ask anything out loud — no perfect prompts, no commands 3. Get an answer in seconds, right where you're working 4. Press Command + Period to dismiss and keep moving ### What Dotie does - **Sees what you see.** Reads your screen in real time. No copy-paste, no screenshots, no explaining. - **Hears what you say.** Press the shortcut and talk. Dotie listens, thinks, answers in seconds. - **Lives next to your cursor.** Answers appear right where you're working. No tab switching, no flow breaking. ### What people say - "I deleted three other AI apps the day I installed Dotie. It's like a smart friend looking over my shoulder." — Alex Morgan, design lead, Northwave - "I thought I was good at my job. Dotie made me twice as fast in a week." — Jordan Park, engineer, Lumen ### Privacy and security Dotie is built security-first. Voice capture, screen reading, and shortcut handling all run locally on your Mac. When you ask a question, only the minimal relevant context is sent to the model over end-to-end TLS 1.3, encrypted at rest, and never used for training. Screen capture is focused-window only — anything behind the front-most window never reaches the model. No screenshots are stored, no telemetry is collected on what you ask. GDPR-aligned data handling. ### Pricing Get Dotie for $19/month. 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime. --- ## About — https://dotie.app/about ### Built by people who hate tab-switching. We're a small team in Tokyo, Japan making the AI tool we wished existed. Three engineers, one designer, and a bias toward shipping things that disappear into your workflow. ### Why we built Dotie Every AI app today asks you to leave what you're doing. Open a tab. Paste a screenshot. Re-explain context the model already could have seen. We got tired of being the middleman between our screen and the model. Dotie is what happens when the model just looks. --- ## Pricing — https://dotie.app/pricing ### Personal $19/month. 7-day free trial, no credit card required. Cancel anytime. Includes unlimited questions, voice activation, screen vision, and access to whichever frontier model is best suited to your question. ### Team Team pricing scales linearly: $19 per seat per month. Pay annually for a 15% discount. SSO (Okta, Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra), SCIM provisioning, and a single invoice are included for teams of 5 or more. Email team@dotie.co and we'll set you up in a day. ### Education and nonprofit Free for verified students at any accredited school. Free for registered nonprofits with under 50 staff. Email proof of either to team@dotie.co and we'll switch your account. --- ## How it works — https://dotie.app/how-it-works ### Voice Press the shortcut and talk. Dotie's local voice activation captures what you say with no wake word and no always-on microphone — the mic only opens during the moment you hold the shortcut. ### Vision Dotie reads what's already on your screen. No screenshots, no copy-paste, no explaining what app you're in. Screen capture happens locally; only the relevant context is sent to the model when you ask a question. ### Shortcuts - **Wake:** Command + Space, twice - **Dismiss:** Command + Period - **Repeat last answer:** Command + Shift + R - All shortcuts are remappable in Settings. --- ## Docs — https://dotie.app/docs ### Install 1. Download Dotie from https://dotie.app 2. Open dotie.dmg from your Downloads folder 3. Drag the Dotie icon into your Applications folder 4. Open the Dotie app from your Applications folder 5. Grant Microphone, Accessibility, and Screen Recording permissions when prompted ### Troubleshooting - Dotie not seeing your screen? Re-grant Screen Recording permission and restart Dotie. - Slow answers? Check status.dotie.app — model latency is rare but possible. - Stuck on permissions? Settings → Privacy → "Reset and re-prompt" inside Dotie. ### Support We answer every email at team@dotie.co, usually within a few hours during weekdays. --- ## Tutor mode — https://dotie.app/tutor ### Tutor mode. Learning out loud. Open a textbook, a problem set, a Coursera lecture, or your own messy notes. Press the shortcut, ask anything, and Dotie walks you through it without giving the answer away. ### What it is Tutor mode is a different conversation style for Dotie. Instead of answering directly, Dotie asks the question back, hints, and only reveals the next step when you're ready. Same shortcut, same screen-reading — just a teacher's voice on top. ### When to use it - Working through a math, physics, or stats problem set - Reading a paper or textbook chapter outside your field - Learning a new language from real text on screen - Reviewing a codebase you didn't write - Studying for an exam — Dotie quizzes you from whatever's on screen ### How a session feels 1. Open whatever you're studying 2. Press Command + Space twice and say "tutor me on this" or "quiz me" 3. Dotie reads the page and asks the first guiding question 4. Answer out loud or in writing — Dotie nudges, hints, or moves on 5. End the session by saying "recap" — Dotie writes a 5-line summary you can save ### Why a separate mode Default Dotie is built for speed: ask, answer, back to work. Tutor mode is the opposite — it slows down on purpose, because being told the answer and learning the answer aren't the same thing. Flip back to default any time with "just answer." ### Privacy, same as always Tutor sessions follow the same rules as the rest of Dotie. Voice and screen capture are local. Only the focused window — never the full screen — and your transcript are sent to the model. Sessions aren't stored on our servers, and recaps live only on your Mac unless you explicitly save them. --- ## FAQ — https://dotie.app/faq **Is Dotie for professionals?** Yes — most of our users are professionals. Team billing, SSO (Okta, Google, Entra), and a single invoice are available for teams of 5+. Email team@dotie.co. **Do you partner with creators?** Sometimes. team@dotie.co — tell us what you've built lately. **What platforms does Dotie support?** Mac on Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. **How much does Dotie cost?** $19/month with a 7-day free trial. **How does Dotie protect my privacy?** Dotie runs entirely on your Mac. Your screen never leaves your machine unless you explicitly ask a question. If your question isn't here, write to team@dotie.co — a real person reads every email.