Elissa¶

Elissa, a small indigo character with a coral face and big eyes, glowing on a dark desktop

A voice assistant with a face, living on your desktop. Say "Hey Elissa" or press Ctrl+Alt+Space, and talk. She answers out loud, with any AI model, and nothing changes without your click.

Install Elissa First steps

How it works¶

Elissa answering a question out loud, with the question and her answer written below her

flowchart TB
  A["🗣️ You talk"] --> B["👂 She understands<br>(speech to text)"]
  B --> C["🧠 Your AI thinks"]
  C --> D{"Changes<br>something?"}
  D -- no --> E["🔊 She answers"]
  D -- yes --> F["✋ Approval card"]
  F -- your click --> E

Reading, searching and answering happen on their own. Writing, sending, clicking or running anything shows you a card first, and only your click approves it.

What she can do¶

Talk, hands-free, and interrupt her any time
Any AI: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, or free and local with Ollama
Your files: read PDF, Word, Excel; write with a diff; never delete
Your computer: open apps and sites, and use other windows
Timers, reminders and tasks
Email: search, read, and send with your OK
Code: understand a project, edit, run your tests
Music: Spotify, pause, skip, volume
Integrations: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Google Calendar
Claude Code and Codex alerts
Memory: "what did we talk about yesterday?"
Private: no account, no telemetry

Everything you can ask her

Meet Elissa¶

She follows your cursor, perks up her ears when she listens and shows a gear while she works. Poke her (right click) and she gets annoyed; rest the pointer on her and she sends hearts.

Systems¶

	Windows 10 / 11	macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon)	Linux
Status	Full	Preview	Preview

What works on each system · Privacy policy · Security · Code signing policy