openclick is an experimental open-source CLI that drives macOS UI from a prompt. An LLM produces a plan of UI actions; openclick executes them via the macOS Accessibility APIs. Early and rough. MIT-licensed.
hey y'all! Excited to share a cool tool I've been building: OpenClick 🖱️
OpenClick is an open-source macOS automation system that turns natural-language prompts into real desktop actions.
It's very simple, just type: openclick run "open Calculator and calculate 17 times 23"
Under the hood: a signed local helper drives the Mac via Accessibility + Screen Recording, while a planner/executor loop uses screenshots, AX trees, and verification to keep working through multi-step tasks. It learns from each run via local memories. Screenshots and context go directly to your chosen model provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, or local) - there's no OpenClick backend in the middle.
Works today for browser navigation, Gmail, Finder, Calculator, TextEdit-style flows, and common shortcuts. Still early (0.2.0 beta), still rough on canvas-heavy apps, but it's a real glimpse of where local desktop agents are heading.
PS: It feels weird to be back on Product Hunt after such a long time! I missed it!
Utterly insane to me that this launch isn’t higher in the rankings today - this strikes me as wildly powerful, if it’s as reliable as I hope it to be!
Riccardo congrats on the launch. screenshot-driven planners are interesting territory. one thing we keep getting tripped up on in browser automation: the screenshot the LLM saw at step N is stale by step N+1 if the page re-rendered. how does Openclick handle that. does it re-anchor each step from a fresh AX tree, or trust the original plan and verify at the end? curious because the AX-tree-vs-pixel-coords delta is exactly where most of our agent failures hide.
About Openclick on Product Hunt
“macOS agent that turns prompts into automated clicks”
Openclick launched on Product Hunt on May 5th, 2026 and earned 79 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #22 on the daily leaderboard. openclick is an experimental open-source CLI that drives macOS UI from a prompt. An LLM produces a plan of UI actions; openclick executes them via the macOS Accessibility APIs. Early and rough. MIT-licensed.
Openclick was featured in Open Source (68.4k followers), Developer Tools (512k followers) and GitHub (41.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 99.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Openclick?
Openclick was hunted by Riccardo Arvizzigno. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Riccardo Arvizzigno