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AI; didn't read.
When someone else's AI pads one sentence into six paragraphs,<br>ai;dr summarizes it for you, so you don't have to read the whole<br>thing — using a tiny model<br>inside the app, on your Mac.
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A local model summarizes anything you copy.
Runs in-process with llama.cpp, so nothing leaves the Mac.
Shows for ten seconds, or until you click it. No focus stolen.
ai;dr lives in the menu bar and watches the clipboard. When you copy<br>a hundred characters or more — an email thread, a changelog, a terms-of-service<br>page, a document like this one — it hands the text to a small language model<br>(Qwen3-0.6B) running in-process through llama.cpp. There is no server, no<br>Ollama, no API key, and no network call.
The card then drops from the menu-bar icon with a bold one-line<br>headline and a short summary, stays for ten seconds or until you click it,<br>and never steals focus from what you were doing. If you miss one, the menu<br>has "Show clipboard summary" to bring the last one back, and "Copy last<br>summary" to paste it somewhere else.
Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere for it to go. The<br>model file ships inside the app bundle, inference runs on your machine's own<br>silicon, and the app makes no network requests at all — so it works on a<br>plane, on a locked-down laptop, or with the Wi-Fi switched off entirely.<br>Your clipboard is never modified, and no summary is written to disk.
The hundred-character floor exists so the app stays quiet during<br>ordinary work: copying a file path, a variable name, a URL, or a one-line<br>command produces nothing at all. It wakes up for the things you actually<br>skim — release notes, a wall of Slack backscroll, a legal paragraph, a stack<br>trace, the paragraph a colleague pasted with "thoughts?" attached.
The download is around 680 MB, and almost all of that is the model<br>itself rather than the app. It is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by<br>Apple, so it opens on first launch like anything else you install. Apple<br>Silicon only, because the inference is built against the Metal backend.
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Copy this text<br>select · ⌘C · that's the whole product
In-process<br>llama.cpp runs Qwen3-0.6B inside the app binary. No server to start, no daemon to babysit, no API key to paste.
Private by construction<br>Your clipboard never leaves the machine — there is nothing it could be sent to. Works offline.
Zero ritual<br>No window, no typing, no buttons. Copy text like you already do; read one line instead of four paragraphs.
Download for macOS<br>Apple Silicon · ~620 MB, model included · open the disk image and drag ai;dr to Applications.
Or run from source
git clone https://github.com/ronreiter/aidr<br>cd aidr<br>poetry install<br>./aidr