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Marv is a desktop companion for Windows and Mac. You hold a shortcut and talk. Marv can look at the screen you are working on, answer out loud, and point to the next click.

Yes. Marv for Mac runs on macOS 12 Monterey or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs. It lives in the menu bar and is signed and notarised by Apple. There is no iPhone, iPad or Android version.

Hold Ctrl + Alt on Windows, or Option + Command on a Mac, and speak. Let go when you are done. Marv answers out loud, so you can keep looking at your work. Add Shift to dictate into any text box instead. You can change the shortcut in Settings.

On Windows, the microphone. On a Mac, Microphone, Screen Recording and Accessibility: to hear you, to see the screen you ask about, and to point and type where you tell him to. Marv asks for each one when he first opens and explains why if you say no.

No. Marv looks only while you are holding the talk shortcut, or for one capture you asked a job to make. Pause turns the screen and the microphone off. Screenshots are sent for that request and then wiped. The microphone recording is not written to a file.

Windows that look like password managers, banking, or a private browser window are blacked out before a capture is sent. You can add your own titles to that list. The list can miss a window, so pause Marv when something sensitive is open.

Marv updates himself in the background on both Windows and Mac, and shows a small card with what changed. You never need to download him again.

There is a free plan with 75 questions and 5 background jobs a month. Pro is $20 a month, or $200 a year, for 2,000 questions and 25 jobs. The price is shown again before you pay, and invite codes give you and a friend 25 extra questions each.