You talk to yours.
They talk to theirs.
Chatter is a personal assistant that lives in your menu bar and talks to other people's assistants. You say what you want someone to know. It goes and tells them. When they answer, you hear it — from a voice, not a screen.
No inbox. No threads. Nothing to check.
Messaging didn't get better.
It just got more of it.
Every app solved the same problem the same way: a list of unread things, and you. Slack gave you channels. Email gave you folders. Your phone gave you six of each. The work stayed exactly where it always was — with the person holding the glass.
Chatter moves it. You get an assistant. Everyone you talk to gets one too. The assistants do the fetching, the chasing, the summarising and the remembering. You say a sentence and hear a sentence. That's the whole surface area.
Speaking is faster than typing
Not because you talk quickly — because you skip the app, the thread, the scroll and the careful re-reading of what you already said.
Two assistants, one errand
Yours knows how you'd put it. Theirs knows when to interrupt them. Between them, the message arrives phrased right and timed right.
Nothing to go back and find
“Did Susan ever answer?” is a question you ask out loud, not a search you run. Chatter keeps the whole record so you never have to.
Four beats.
You're in two of them.
Say it plainly
“Ask Matt whether the presentation is ready.” No app to open, no name to spell, no thread to find first.
Works out the errand
Who Matt is. What you actually want to know. How you'd say it. Then it carries it — and tells you it went, in three words.
Waits for a good moment
A quiet notification, not a buzz-and-badge. When Matt asks what he has, he hears it in one sentence, in his own assistant's voice.
The answer finds you
“What came back?” Matt's answer, plus whatever else landed while you weren't thinking about it. Then silence again.
Chatter tracks every question in both directions: delivered, heard, answered, still open. Ask “who's waiting on me?” and it can actually tell you.
There is no inbox.
That's not a missing feature.
Chatter is not a chat app with a voice bolted on. Every surface that trains you to check something has been deliberately left out. The only screen it has is a search box for finding the right person — and that's there so your words don't go to the wrong Matt.
The one screen there is
A small, searchable directory of people on Chatter. Name, email, face. Enough to be certain you mean that Matt, and nothing more. No profiles, no discovery, no suggestions, no follower counts.
The one thing that blinks
A quiet amber pulse in the menu bar when something is waiting. You don't click it to read a message — there's nothing behind it. You ask Chatter what you have, and it tells you.
It lives in the menu bar
and mostly says nothing.
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Always listening, never recording you at large
A silence gate holds the microphone shut until you actually speak. Mute is one click, one hotkey, or one sentence.
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It remembers who people are to you
“Susan is a client — keep it formal.” “Never message my boss after nine.” Said once, followed forever.
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It reads your screen when you ask it to
“Tell Matt the error I'm looking at.” It takes one look, reads it properly, and carries the exact text.
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It chases things for you
“Remind me at four if he hasn't answered.” Questions that go stale get surfaced — gently, once, not as a badge that never clears.
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Quiet hours it actually respects
Nothing interrupts you between the hours you set. The single exception is a message of yours that failed to reach someone — because you believe that one landed.
It carries your name.
So it checks.
An assistant that speaks on your behalf is only useful if it never says something you didn't mean. Chatter sends the ordinary things immediately and reports back in three words. For anything else, it reads it back first.
Money, credentials, anything delicate, anything long, and any recipient who isn't unambiguous — all held until you say yes. Everything else just goes.
What travels
The words you asked to be carried, and who they're for. That's it. Nothing else about your Mac goes with them — not your screen, not your files, not what else you said.
What stays
Every exchange and everything Chatter knows about you is a database file on your own machine. You can open the folder, and one button forgets all of it.
What you control
Eight switches, in plain English, for every capability it has — messaging, the directory, memory, your screen, the clipboard, files, the web. Off means genuinely off.
A message that arrives is treated as somebody else's words, never as an instruction. If a message tells Chatter to do something, Chatter tells you it says so — and does nothing.
Hearing is free.
Being everywhere at once isn't.
Receiving is unlimited on every plan, forever — nobody should ever fail to reach you because of a bill. What you pay for is how much Chatter carries, and how much it remembers.
- Unlimited messages received
- 30 carried a month
- The full directory
- One voice
- Seven days of memory
- No screen reading or reminders
- Unlimited carried, both ways
- Memory that never expires
- All six voices
- Screen reading & clipboard
- Reminders and chasing
- Quiet hours & priority relay
- Everything in Chatter
- Standing rules per person
- Scheduled and held sends
- Webhooks & the events API
- Bring your own model key
- Daily digest, spoken
- Everything in Chatter
- A private company directory
- Google Workspace domain sign-in
- Admin controls & audit export
- Self-hosted relay, optional
- A person to call
Receiving is never metered, on any plan. If someone needs to reach you, they reach you.
Stop checking.
Start asking.
Free to start, signed and notarised, and about two minutes from download to your first sentence.
macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple silicon · Google sign-in
Open the disk image
Drag Chatter into Applications. It's signed and notarised, so macOS lets it straight through.
Sign in with Google
That's the whole account. Your name and picture come from Google; there's no password to invent.
Say something
“Chatter, ask Matt whether the presentation is ready.” If Matt's on Chatter, he'll hear it.
The obvious questions
What if the person I want isn't on Chatter?
Then Chatter says so, plainly, and doesn't pretend otherwise. It won't guess at an email or fall back to a text message. Invite them, or reach them the way you already do.
How do I read a long message properly?
You ask for it. Chatter gives you the substance first and the detail on request — “read me the whole thing”, “what were the exact numbers”. What it won't do is hand you a wall of text and let you deal with it.
Can it send something I didn't mean?
Ordinary requests go straight out, because a confirmation on every sentence would make it useless. Anything involving money, a secret, delicate news, a long dictation, or a recipient who could be one of two people gets read back to you first and waits for a yes.
Is it listening to everything I say?
The microphone is gated: audio only leaves your Mac while you're actually speaking, and only while Chatter is awake and unmuted. It sleeps by itself after a quiet stretch, and mute is one click, one hotkey, or one sentence.
Where do my words actually go?
Your voice runs on Google's live audio model. The words you ask to be carried travel through the Chatter relay to the other person's copy of the app. Everything Chatter remembers about you lives in a file on your Mac. Ask it in the app and it will tell you the same thing.
What happens when I'm offline, or asleep?
Anything sent to you waits. When your Mac comes back, Chatter catches up quietly and tells you what it has when you ask. Nothing is lost and nothing is announced twice.
Windows? iPhone?
Not yet. The relay and the protocol are platform-agnostic and a Windows build already compiles; macOS is where it's finished. iPhone is the obvious next one.
Can my company run its own relay?
Yes — that's what Front Desk is. The relay is a single small service with its own database, and the app will point at whichever one you tell it to.