About SlyPilot: Why It Exists
Windows is a wonderful place to work and a surprisingly awkward one to drive. Virtual desktops are hidden behind a shortcut you have to remember. A tablet
Windows is a wonderful place to work and a surprisingly awkward one to drive. Virtual desktops are hidden behind a shortcut you have to remember. A tablet or a Surface Pen is treated as an afterthought. Dictation, window layouts, snippets, the clipboard, the microphone and AI help each live in a different tool with its own account, its own subscription and its own idea of where your data goes.
SlyPilot was made to pull those threads together into one small program that sits quietly on your PC, answers to whatever you have in hand (a finger, a pen, a dial, a hotkey, your voice or your phone), and keeps your words, your windows and your documents on your own machine.
It started as a way to switch virtual desktops without breaking concentration. It grew, one honest need at a time, into a Touch Bar, a radial menu, snap layouts, voice commands, AI help on your text and a safe way for AI agents to use your desktop (all free), plus four parts that make up the optional SlyPilot Pro: AI dictation, natural voices, offline meeting notes and a phone remote. The point never changed: the computer should adapt to how you want to work, not the other way round.
🎯 What We Believe
1. Never break the flow
A desktop helper must never interrupt your active work. If you tap a dock to change desktop, snap a window or check a reminder, your typing caret in your editor or browser must never lose focus. SlyPilot's tool windows are built to follow this rule (the command palette, which you type into, is the one deliberate exception), and so are its voice, pen and phone paths.
2. Light, local and plain
SlyPilot is written in AutoHotkey v2 and compiled into a single 64-bit Windows program of about 13 MB. The four SlyPilot Pro parts (AI dictation, natural voices, the meeting recorder, the phone-remote helper) are separate small programs in a Pro folder next to it, and optional speech engines are downloaded only when you ask. The program uses about 60 MB of memory when idle (the Pro service adds about 30 MB, only while a licence is installed). It does not use Electron or a browser engine inside, and it needs no installer unless you want one and no administrator rights.
3. Hardware is meant to be used
Modern PCs come with Surface Pens, Surface Dials, touch screens, several large monitors, good microphones and capable graphics cards, and the operating system leaves much of that on the table. SlyPilot tries to turn that hardware into instruments you can actually play: a pen that opens the bar when it hovers, a Dial that spins through desktops, a GPU that makes AI dictation fast, an Android phone that becomes a trackpad (the last two are SlyPilot Pro).
4. Your data stays yours
Your voice, your documents and your workflows are private. SlyPilot runs voice commands with the recognizer built into Windows, and its AI dictation (Whisper and Parakeet, SlyPilot Pro), natural voices (Kokoro, Piper and Supertonic, SlyPilot Pro) and, if you wish, a small language model on your own PC. The program has no accounts, no telemetry and no analytics. Nothing leaves your PC unless you turn on an optional feature: AI actions sent to a model you choose (and, for a service outside your PC, only after a separate tick that names it), the update check, model downloads that show you every file first, or activating a SlyPilot Pro SLY-... licence key (which sends only the key, an anonymous one-way-hashed PC id, the PC name, "win32" and the Pro version for a 30-day offline lease). Meeting notes only ever exist because you started them, in front of a visible indicator.
5. You are in charge of anything powerful
Everything that can record, download, type for you or let another program act is off until you switch it on, tells you what it is about to do, and has an off switch within reach. AI agents get no access until you choose a level; a pause hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12) freezes every agent and every phone at once; password-manager and private-browsing windows are hidden from agents and phones by default.
6. No lock-in
Your settings, workspaces and rules are plain, human-readable text files that you can back up, sync or edit in any text editor. SlyPilot keeps a daily copy of your settings and repairs the file if it is ever damaged. The agent skill and the command line mean you can script it and leave whenever you want.
👨💻 The Maker
SlyPilot Desktop Helpers is made and maintained by Alan Bedian.
- Source code: not public yet (the project repository is private at the moment).
- Downloads: not public yet. See Download info.
- Licensing: SlyPilot's core (the desktop companion, virtual desktops, Touch Bar, radial menu, snap, over 550 offline voice commands, AI actions, the agent API and MCP server, and the everyday utilities) is licensed under the permissive MIT License and is free, with no licence, no trial and no time limit. Five parts are SlyPilot Pro, an optional one-time purchase of US$39 for up to 3 personal PCs: AI dictation (38 languages), the phone remote, 45 natural voices, meeting notes, and the screenshot editor and screen recorder (with scrolling screenshots and guides), plus the Home Link preview. The Pro programs (in the
Profolder, written in C#) are proprietary and are unlocked by a licence key (SLY-...) that issues a signed 30-day offline lease (or by an offlineSlyPilot.licfile). The version you buy keeps working; 1 year of updates is included, and there is a 30-day refund. See Credits for every open-source part SlyPilot is built on. - Support the project: The core of SlyPilot is free. If it saves you time, you can upgrade to SlyPilot Pro or say thanks with a donation: Donate via PayPal.