Automater Lite
Your AI sessions,remembered.
Keep your AIs organized and under your control.
Automater Lite pulls every AI CLI & Desktop session on your machine into one searchable local library — and keeps an eye on the whole fleet from your tray.
Available on: Windows, Mac, and Linux · Signed Installer · No Account Needed
The problem
You run five assistants a day. Each one keeps its own diary — in its own format, in its own corner of your disk. No unified search across harnesses.
Automater Lite keeps the sessions, flags the ones waiting on you, and counts what they cost.
On screen, your way
Pop it up. Pin it.Park it at the edge.
From the tray
Click the tray icon and Lite comes up over whatever you’re doing. It stays put while you work; click the icon again and it’s gone.
Pinned to the desktop
Pin it and Lite keeps its own strip of screen — your other windows make room instead of hiding behind it. On Windows.
Auto-hide at the edge
Park it off-screen. Point at the right edge and it slides in; move away and it slides back out.
As a plain window
Turn Always on top off and Lite is just another window: drag it anywhere, stack it with the rest, alt-tab back to it.
Free in Lite · 7 cards
The panel is the app.The cards are the features.
Every card below ships with Lite, free forever — no account, no trial clock. They’re in your tray the moment it installs.
Scroll to flip through the deck · the strip on the right jumps to any card
Usage
See how much of every AI plan you’ve used before you run out.
- Nine providers probed for quota headroom.
- Reads unknown, never zero, when a probe fails.
- Leaderboard publishing is free and opt-in.
Ships with Lite. Pro adds the in-app rank card.
Grok Bots
All your Grok Bot chats, saved and searchable in one place.
- Grok Bot conversations imported into the local session library.
- Searchable beside every CLI transcript, not in a separate app.
- Ships collapsed until you open it.
Ships with Lite. No account, no trial clock.
Live activity
Know the instant an agent stops and is waiting on your answer.
- Amber the moment an agent blocks on you.
- Who is working and who is waiting, live.
- Approval visibility never goes behind the paywall.
Ships with Lite and is never paywalled.
Session library
Find and resume any past AI session, across every CLI, from one search.
- 45 session formats, from Claude Code to Aider.
- Full-text search across every vendor at once.
- One-click resume on the 11 CLIs that support it.
Ships with Lite. Pro adds inline replies to a running session.
Voice
Press one hotkey, talk, and it’s typed wherever your cursor is.
- Ctrl Alt Space, your global hotkey.
- Parakeet speech-to-text runs on your own hardware.
- Kokoro reads agent status back in a local voice.
Ships with Lite. Pro adds cloud voice when the machine is busy.
Detected AI apps
See every AI app on your machine and which ones are running right now.
- Live presence and status for every detected AI app.
- Installed versus running, at a glance.
- Closes the Home deck; ships collapsed until you open it.
Ships with Lite. Pro adds live CPU, memory and I/O hog scores.
Settings
Pick a theme, arrange your cards, and make the tray yours.
- Three themes — Blue, Carbon and Steel — plus the panel’s opacity.
- Home cards & layout: show, hide and reorder the deck.
- Provider accounts and app updates in the same place.
Ships with Lite. No account, no trial clock.
What Lite reads
Works with the AIs you already use.
Lite reads each tool’s own transcript files and folds them into one library on your machine. No plugins, no setup — it finds them.
45 session formats, from these 41 AI apps and CLIs.
Windsurf
Session import
Warp
Session import
Aider
Session import
MiniMax
Session import
DeepSeek
Session import
Kiro
Session import
Roo Code
Session import
Kilo Code
Session import
OpenHands
Session import
Amp
Session import
goose
Session import
Trae
Session import
Mistral Vibe
Session import
Claude Code
Live session
Codex
Live session
Gemini
Live session
Antigravity
Live session
Grok
Live session
Grok Bot
Session import
Cursor
Session import
VS Code
Session import
Muse Code
Live session
Claude Cowork
Session import
Kimi
Live session
Qwen Code
Live session
Z.ai GLM
Live session
Copilot
Session import
Pi
Live session
OpenCode
Live session
gptme
Session import
iFlow
Session import
Poolside
Session import
Forge
Session import
Shelley
Session import
Posit Assistant
Session import
MiMoCode
Session import
QwenPaw
Session import
Codebuff
Session import
Command Code
Session import
IcodeMate
Session import
Omnigent
Session import
Automater ProPro
Lite watches.Pro operates.
Everything in Lite, plus the controls: chat with the engine you pick, run sessions, drive this machine, see every machine.
Introductory offer
$50/year
Everything in Lite stays free. Pro adds the controls.
FilesProBeta
Browse your repo’s files and commit history without leaving the tray.
- Browse the repo tree and working tree from the panel.
- Read the commit graph without leaving Lite.
The session library, meters, Activity and Needs You.
TerminalProBeta
A full terminal, local or WSL, one click away in the tray.
- Run the built-in terminal against local and WSL shells.
- Off on first run; enable it from the customize panel.
Your own terminal, the session library and the meters.
LeaderboardPro
See where you rank against other builders, right inside the app.
- Compare your usage rank and explore the top builders.
- View activity insights and manage your leaderboard profile.
Usage meters, local activity, and publishing to the public board.
AI NewsPro
The AI news that matters, plus outage and release alerts for the tools you use.
- Curated AI headlines from labs, research, and industry, ranked by importance every few minutes.
- Incident and release alerts for the providers and CLIs detected on this machine.
- Automater Intel field guides pinned beside the news that matters to agent builders.
Live activity, usage meters, and the session library stay free.
Ask AutomaterPro
Chat with any AI you choose — and let it see your screen.
- Chat with your chosen AI engine from the Automater Home card.
- Use screen context and voice input in your conversations.
Local dictation, voice playback and the session library.
Live VisualizerProBeta
Watch your agents work across a live map of your codebase.
- See a repo as a live component map: dependencies, progress, and blocked work.
- Watch agents move across the map in real time, with the files they are touching.
- Zoom from every repo down to the individual files a session is editing.
Live activity, Needs You, approvals and the session library.
BrowserProBeta
Open web pages and docs inside the tray, right beside your agents.
- Open pages in the panel instead of another window.
- Render markdown files in place.
The session library, meters, Activity and Needs You.
Camera FXProBeta
A virtual camera that keeps you “present” on calls while you step away.
- Send an effects version of your webcam to your meeting app as Automater Camera (Windows 11).
- Loop a few seconds of you paying attention and step back in with one hotkey; optional automatic return when you talk.
- Wearing the same clothes again today? Change your shirt color or your whole outfit with the camera overlay tools.
- A blazer over what you're wearing, or a cartoon you. Everything runs on this PC.
Your real webcam, local dictation and the session library.
With Pro you also getPro
Everything Pro adds.The full list.
The cards above are the headline features. Here is every capability a Pro account unlocks, grouped the way the app groups them. Everything in Lite stays free.
Operate
Act from the tray: chat, start and steer sessions, and let agents drive.
- Ask AutomaterChat in the tray with the engine you pick, using screen context and voice.
- Managed SessionsStart, steer, interrupt and stop agent sessions from the panel.
- Advanced messagingReply inline to a session that is already running, without leaving the library.
- Computer ControlLet agents drive the mouse, keyboard and apps, with your permission.
See every machine
Every machine, every integration, every resource hog, on one screen.
- FleetBetaSee every machine's agents, status and KPIs in one view.
- Integration HealthInstall integrations, run guided repair and read the full diagnostics.
- Advanced AttentionRicher evidence behind each Needs You flag, plus latency diagnostics and history.
- Resource monitorSee each running AI app's live CPU, memory and I/O hog score, 0 to 100 over the last minute.
- Live VisualizerWatch your agents move across a live map of the repo, down to the files being edited.
Tools in the tray
Things you would otherwise alt-tab for, docked in the panel.
- Built-in toolsBetaTerminal, repo and file browser, web browser and markdown viewer, inside Lite.
- Pop-out mini-appsPop a Home card out into its own standalone mini-app that stays on screen while the tray panel is hidden.
- Pro LeaderboardYour rank, your activity insights and your profile, inside the app.
- AI News & alertsRanked AI news plus incident and release alerts for the stack you run.
- Camera FXBetaA virtual camera for your meeting app: loop a few seconds of you paying attention, put on a blazer, or go cartoon.
Voice
When the machine is busy, speech can run in the cloud on a metered allowance.
- Cloud voiceRoute speech-to-text and text-to-speech through Automater Cloud when this machine is busy.
Automater Pro $50/year
Needs You and approval visibility always remain available without Pro. Stopping, cancelling and revoking stay free too.
Pricing
Start free.Go Pro when you’re ready.
Automater Lite
Free
For anyone running AI CLIs.
Free forever. No account, no card.Windows offline installer, 58.8 MB
- 45 formats in one searchable library, resume where supported
- Usage and quota meters across 9 providers
- Needs You flags and approval visibility, always free
- Local dictation into any window, spoken status back
- Home cards you order, collapse, pin and detach
- Signed installer, offline install, verified updates
Introductory offer
Automater Pro
See pricing
For the developer who steps in.
Everything in Lite, plus:
- Chat in the tray with the engine you pick
- Start, steer, interrupt and stop sessions
- Computer control: drive this machine
- Managed sessions and fleet: see every machine
- Built-in tools: files, terminal, browser
- Cloud voice when the machine is busy
Prices in USD. Taxes and availability are confirmed at checkout.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Automater Lite free?
Yes. Downloading and running Lite costs nothing and needs no sign-up. The archive and its search, the usage meters, the Needs You flags and local voice are all free. Automater Pro is a separate $50/year upgrade that adds to Lite; it never removes anything Lite already does.
What does Pro add, and what happens to my archive if I stop paying?
Pro adds the parts that act: chat and computer control from the tray, managed sessions and inline replies, Fleet and Integration Health, built-in tools and pop-out mini-apps, and metered cloud voice. Your archive is a local file. It stays on your disk, searchable, whether or not you pay. Needs You and approval visibility are never gated.
Where does my data live?
On your machine. Lite reads each CLI’s own session files and keeps the normalized archive locally. Nothing leaves your disk unless you opt in: publishing to the public leaderboard, or routing speech through Pro cloud voice. Vault redaction scrubs a secret across every stored transcript.
Which CLIs and apps does it read?
45 session formats today, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, Qwen, Z.ai, OpenCode, Cursor, VS Code, Copilot and Aider. Lite finds them where they already write, with nothing to configure. Eleven of those also support one-click resume back into their own CLI.
Which operating systems?
Windows x64, macOS on Apple silicon, and Linux x86_64 as an AppImage or a .deb. There is no Intel Mac build yet, and no arm64 build for Windows or Linux. The downloads page shows only what is published right now.
How do updates work?
Every build ships as a signed installer, and update payloads are minisign-verified before they install. On Windows the signature is Authenticode and the WebView2 runtime is embedded, so the first install needs no network. You can switch auto-update off and stay on the build you have.
Why did you build this?
I run about ten assistants at once — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, Qwen and a few more — across one Windows machine and the WSL box inside it. That is a good problem to have, right up until you cannot see it.
The losses were always the same three: sessions buried in a different folder for every tool, an agent parked on a permission prompt for an hour, and no single meter.
So I built the tray app I wanted. It archives every session on your own disk, flags the moment an agent needs you, and stays free, because the archive belongs to the person who made it. Pro pays for the parts that act on it, and for the cloud. If it misses something you do every day, write to me.
“AI, stay away. Please go hide in my tray.”
Russell WinslowFounder, Automater · New York
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