Works in real apps
Documents, files, recordings and the video editor, not copies of them.
An assistant with handsNow available
An AI that uses your apps and files, not just a chat window.
If you want an AI that does the task instead of describing it, it has to work where your files and apps are. In KolHive the assistant uses the same desktop you do: it opens your files, edits the document you have open, cuts the video on your timeline and puts the recording where it belongs. You decide what it may touch, and it asks before anything that changes your work.
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Asks first
Changes to your files, apps or anything sensitive wait for your approval by default.
Shows what it did
It reads back the result, and every action it takes is recorded.
Your choice of AI
Cloud models, your own keys, or a model on your own computer.
Why a chat window is not enough
The hardest part of AI at work is often not the answer. It is supplying the context again, moving the result somewhere else by hand, and finding it later.
Repeated briefing
A detached chatbot needs the same background and files pasted into every new conversation.
Detached results
A good answer still leaves manual work when it is not connected to the files and apps that come next.
Lost history
Decisions are hard to trace when every task ends in a separate thread.
Unclear access
You should be able to see which material a request was allowed to use.
What the assistant does on the desktop
It uses the same apps you have open, through tools each app declares.
Edits the document on screen
Rewrite a section or change the tone of the document you have open in KolDoc.
Works the video timeline
Cut, add titles and captions and change speed in the video editor, then hear what changed.
Organizes files and recordings
Find a file, put it in the right folder, or file a new recording and its transcript with the project it belongs to.
Builds the missing tool
When no app fits, describe the job and it builds an app and installs it next to the others.
What you can use today, and what is coming
Available now
- KolHive for macOS, Windows, and Linux, free, and in the browser at web.kolhive.com.
- The desktop and its apps in the web demo at demo.kolhive.com. The assistant is switched off there.
- AI on your recordings in KolWrite today: summaries, decisions, action items and questions about what was said.
Coming
- KolHive for iPhone and iPad: in App Store review.
- KolHive for Android: coming to Google Play.
From a request to finished work
Start from the desktop
Open the assistant beside the files and apps the task is about.
Say what you want done
Describe the result: "shorten this report to one page", "cut the silences".
Approve the changes
It shows what it is about to change; anything that edits your work waits for your yes.
Keep the result
The edit stays in the document, the cut on the timeline, the file in its folder.
Questions and answers
How is this different from a chatbot?
A chatbot answers in a conversation. The KolHive assistant works inside a desktop with your files and apps, under permissions, and its results stay in those apps instead of in a chat transcript.
Can it act without asking me?
By default it asks before anything that changes your files, your apps or anything sensitive. You can let routine steps run on their own, but deleting, spending money, sharing and sending messages always ask first.
Does it read all my files?
No. It works with the material you give it access to, and every app keeps its own storage.
Which AI model powers it?
Use our cloud models, connect your own AI service, or run a model on your own computer.
Can I use it today?
Yes. Download KolHive for macOS, Windows or Linux, or open web.kolhive.com, with a free account. The web demo shows the same desktop with the AI switched off, no account needed.
Keep exploring KolHive
- AI OSWhat an AI operating system is, and how KolHive works as one.
- Any AIUse our cloud models, connect your own AI service, or run a model on your own computer.
- AI video editorA timeline the assistant can cut, title and caption.
- Meeting notesTranscripts with speaker names, then decisions and action items.
- Private AIA model on your own computer, files kept local, apps that ask first.
- ChatGPT and ClaudeUse ChatGPT, Claude and your own AI apps with your files.
- Read aloudVoices that read text aloud with no internet, free on your device.
Get KolHive.
Download it for your computer or open it in the browser. One free account for KolHive, KolChat and KolWrite.