AI Assist vs Agent HUD

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AI Assist compared with Agent HUD
Detail	AI Assist	Agent HUD
What it does	Meeting notes on your own API keys with no bot in your call	Monitor quotas, tokens and coding agent sessions from your screen edge on Mac, iPhone and Apple Watch
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
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Pricing model	Paid	Not given
Pricing	$3 per month with 14-day free trial, no credit card required. Includes Chrome extension, desktop helper, all transcription and summary features, cloud sync with end-to-end encryption, and support for bring-your-own API keys.	Agent HUD (Mac app): Free. Agent HUD Remote: From $2.99 a month (1 Mac early-bird price), $4.99 regular; yearly plans from $29.99 early-bird to $49.99 regular. 2 Mac plans: $4.99/$7.99 monthly, $49.99/$79.99 yearly. 3 Mac plans: $5.99/$9.99 monthly, $59.99/$99.99 yearly. First week free on all plans
Key features	Proactive insights citing your indexed files during meetings Ask questions grounded in your own files with citations Local vector indexing with on-device embeddings No third-party bot joins your meeting Chrome extension for Google Meet and Zoom Web Bring your own Anthropic and OpenAI API keys	Quotas, balances and reset times displayed at screen edge with color-coded status indicators Approve or deny tool calls and answer agent questions directly from the HUD One-click navigation back to any session's thread, tab or terminal pane Three display modes: Notch, Simple and Dynamic for different screen layouts Detailed token usage analysis by time, agent, model, session, turn and call Built-in MCP server for agent-to-agent communication iPhone and Apple Watch apps with iCloud sync for remote access Voice input on Apple Watch to create new sessions
What makes it different	No bot in your call—audio streams directly to your OpenAI key, never touching the company's servers Pay Anthropic and OpenAI directly with no per-seat markup at $3/month versus competitors charging $17+ per user per month	Unified view of quotas and sessions for 18 agents on one screen edge Built-in MCP server allows agents to communicate with each other and customize the UI Works offline on iPhone with cached data and requires no separate account End-to-end encrypted iCloud sync for Agent HUD Remote with no server access to data
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	1 no change since last check	4 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	4	3
Citation Flow (Majestic)	17	20
Referring domains (Majestic)	37	12

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