Waylight is now available on Apple Silicon Macs! That includes all Macs and MacBooks made after 2020, and some made in 2020. Waylight is an AI assistant that understands everything you do on your computer — your meetings, documents, tabs, and messages. It builds a private memory of your activity so you can ask questions about anything you’ve seen and get instant, accurate answers. Waylight organizes your life, automatically generating a to-do list and daily journal based on your activity.
Hey Product Hunt! I’m excited to share Waylight: an AI assistant that already knows and understands your Google tabs, Zoom meetings, and Word documents. It is now available for Macs/MacBooks with the M chip, which includes all those made after 2020.
In the coming weeks, Waylight will be available on Windows and Macs with the Intel processor. If you'd like to get notified when that happens, you can sign up on the website (https://waylight.ai/download).
I started building Waylight after I became tired of constantly copying and pasting context in ChatGPT, and re-explaining things to it. I was surprised that AI assistants have not become more personalized.
Waylight creates a private, on-device memory of what you’ve viewed on your computer — your meetings, documents, tabs, messages, and more — so you can ask about anything you’ve seen and get instant, accurate answers.
Here are a few examples of what you can ask:
- “What did I agree to in that meeting yesterday?”
- “Summarize the PDF I had open earlier.”
- “Find the article I was reading last week.”
- “Summarize the tabs I had open during that research session.”
Waylight is 100% private; everything stays fully on your device, and nothing is uploaded or shared. It uses a tiny AI model that runs directly on your computer.
In addition to chatting, Waylight automatically generates a to-do list and a daily journal entry at the end of each day, which summarizes what you were working on.
I’d love your thoughts, questions, and feedback. If you have ideas for use cases you want Waylight to support, drop them below!
“Waylight is an AI assistant that understands everything you do on your computer — your meetings, documents, tabs, and messages. It builds a private, on-device memory of your activity so you can ask questions about anything you’ve seen and get instant, accurate answers.”
I would paraphrase this as saying I have not been using Waylight for more than approximately 12 hours. I think that's enough to give feedback on the features and the premise put forward by Waylight and its founders. Which I find to be highly inaccurate.
I wouldn’t say it understands everything I do on the MacBook. Rather, the opposite. It misunderstands a lot. It makes a lot of assumptions. It makes a lot of false claims about what I’ve been doing, but it presents them in a way that sounds like it knows what I’ve been doing with high confidence, which feels very weird.
I’m not sure if it’s hallucinating, but it’s suggesting certain websites I supposedly have visited, which I have never accessed. I can verify this by reviewing the logs.
When I simply ask it to summarize what I’ve been working on today and avoid focusing on websites in Chrome, because it, for some reason, has a very high focus on them, it first of all doesn’t listen. It will use Chrome as the source of truth, which I don’t understand why it would.
It's claiming that I have created a new application with a name that is a title on our website, which I just visited. It is also claiming that I have been using YouTube actively. Yes, I visited YouTube, scrolled down, and didn't watch any videos, but it says that I've been promoting access to my YouTube builds via a membership offering a 30-day money-back guarantee and providing free resources.
I have no idea what sources were used to synthesize this information, because it’s entirely incorrect.
My experience with Waylight has been disappointing. The app’s features—such as the daily journal, to-do list, and chat—are unpredictable and unreliable. None of the information provided is accurate, not even to a small extent. I find no useful data in this app, as it is only about 5% correct, with the rest being false or misleading.
That’s the truth. The harsh truth.
Wow, Waylight looks amazing! The on-device memory is a game-changer for privacy. How does it handle sensitive info like banking details to ensure theyre not accidentally included in the memory?
When someone compares Waylight to “record-everything” memory tools or meeting-note apps, what are the 2–3 concrete differences you’d bet on (e.g., coverage, accuracy, privacy model, daily outputs)—and which user should *not* switch to Waylight?
This looks like a great idea - like what Microsoft aimed to do with their Recall feature but in a privacy-conscious way. Are you planning to open source the code so it can be properly vetted for security? What local AI models are you using?
Congrats on the launch! Love the private, on-device memory for real context.
About Waylight for macOS on Product Hunt
“ChatGPT, but with context from your tabs, meetings, and docs”
Waylight for macOS launched on Product Hunt on January 16th, 2026 and earned 124 upvotes and 22 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. Waylight is now available on Apple Silicon Macs! That includes all Macs and MacBooks made after 2020, and some made in 2020. Waylight is an AI assistant that understands everything you do on your computer — your meetings, documents, tabs, and messages. It builds a private memory of your activity so you can ask questions about anything you’ve seen and get instant, accurate answers. Waylight organizes your life, automatically generating a to-do list and daily journal based on your activity.
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