Smart Jelly vs Gerty
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Smart Jelly compared with Gerty
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| What it does | Private personal AI for Mac that knows your work
| Private local AI assistant for Mac that runs offline without the cloud
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| Stage | MVP
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| Founded | Not given
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| Based in | US
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| Pricing model | Freemium
| Paid
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| Pricing | Not given
| CHF 49 once, lifetime licence with free updates to all future versions. One licence for up to 3 Macs. Free 7-day trial available.
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| Key features | - Chat to ask about work with answers sourced from your messages, calls and notes
- Dictation in any text box on Mac, including browsers and code editors
- Voice to talk to Jelly from any app and get spoken answers
- Meeting prep, live assist and notetaker with no bot joining the call
- Open Loops to track what you promised people and tick off when done
- Create emails, documents, sheets and slides from conversations
- Agents to do tasks on the web with transparency and payment confirmation
- MCP to share chosen memory with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
- Encrypted memory on Mac with option to use your own API key
- Works offline for local processing with no screen recording
| - 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
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| What makes it different | - All AI features in one subscription instead of paying for separate apps
- Memory stays encrypted on your Mac, never sent to cloud unless you choose
- One memory connects all features so each knows what you're working on
- Scored 87.6% on BEAM public test for long-term memory accuracy
- Agents work in their own browser and stop to ask before paying
| - 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
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| Free plan | Not given
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| Open source | Not given
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| Platforms | Not given
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| Public API | Not given
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 5 ● no change since last check | Not checked yet ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 1 | 13 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 15 | 25 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 3 | 3 |
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