Gerty vs CiteWidget
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Gerty compared with CiteWidget
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| What it does | Private local AI assistant for Mac that runs offline without the cloud
| AI answer widget that cites the exact page from your PDFs and website
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| Based in | CH
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| Pricing model | Paid
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| Pricing | CHF 49 once, lifetime licence with free updates to all future versions. One licence for up to 3 Macs. Free 7-day trial available.
| Free: 100 verified answers per month (forever). Starter: $12/month (billed yearly, $19 monthly). Pro: $49/month (billed monthly). Catalog: $299/month (billed monthly). Extra answers on paid plans: $0.01 each, up to $10/month.
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| Key features | - Runs open language models locally (Gemma, Qwen, Llama, Mistral) on Apple silicon
- Works offline with no account, cloud or telemetry
- Answers questions from documents with citations including scans and photos
- Integrates with Mail, Calendar and other Mac apps
- Responds with voice from the notch in any app
- Automatically selects and configures best models for your Mac
- Includes Gerty Max with Thinking and Code capabilities
- Works with any .gguf model from Hugging Face
- Modifies PDFs in place while keeping layout
- Includes local voice, memory, projects and dictation
| - Answers from PDF datasheets, manuals and website pages
- Page-level citations with highlighted PDF passages
- Claim-by-claim verification against source documents
- Refusal when answers cannot be found in documents
- Visitor-to-team contact messaging
- Weekly Monday email with analytics and unanswered questions
- Reads scanned and table-based PDFs
- Dashboard customization of colors and greeting
- Answers in visitor language
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| What makes it different | - Completely private with zero data leaving your Mac
- Intelligent assistant that picks and configures models for you, unlike model runners
- Works completely offline once models are downloaded, no internet required
| - Every answer is checked claim-by-claim and cites the exact page it came from
- Refuses to guess; tells visitors when information is not in documents
- Reads what you already publish with no tagging or rewriting required
- Pay only for verified answers; refusals and tests are always free
- Handles tables and scanned PDFs with cell-level highlighting
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 2 ▲ +1 (up) since last check | Not checked yet ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 13 | 0 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 25 | 0 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 3 | 0 |
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