Ahsk

Ahsk costs nothing to use, and it runs only on macOS. The free AI assistant for Mac translates text, rewrites content, summarizes, downloads videos and analyzes screenshots without sending you to a separate chatbot tab.

That is the pitch: answers, rewrites and summaries appear in the app you are already working in, so you skip the copy and paste step.

Ahsk works across a wide spread of Mac software, from PDFs to code editors, because it hooks into macOS itself rather than a single app.

The video download feature covers platforms such as YouTube and TikTok, which is not something you usually get from a writing assistant.

As a rewriter and translator, Ahsk handles the everyday jobs of tidying an email, converting a paragraph into another language or condensing a long document.

Privacy is a stated focus, with user data staying on your Mac.

If you work on a Mac and want one free AI productivity tool instead of several browser tabs, Ahsk is a reasonable one to install first.