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Natively — Personal-Use Source AI Interview Copilot & Meeting Assistant

The best free alternative to Cluely, Final Round AI, LockedIn AI, and Interview Coder.
Same UI as Cluely. More features. $0 for personal/non-commercial use. Source available. No data breaches.

Competitors charge $20–$149/month, store your data on their servers, and one already breached 83,000 users. Natively costs $0, runs locally, and has never had a data breach. Your keys, your models, your machine.

Requires macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon & Intel) or Windows 10/11

👥 9,000+ Users  ·  🔥 700+ DAU  ·  💸 $0 vs $149/mo rivals  ·  ⚡ <500ms latency  ·  🛡️ 0 data breaches

The Free-for-Personal-Use, Source-Available Cluely Clone

Natively started as a pixel-perfect recreation of Cluely's interface — then kept going. If you've used Cluely, you already know how to use Natively. Same overlay, same workflow, same shortcuts. Except it's free for personal, educational, research, and non-commercial use, source-available, runs locally, supports any LLM, and has never breached a single user's data.

Looking for a free personal-use Cluely alternative? A source-available Cluely clone? You found it.

What Users Are Saying

"This is a fantastic piece of software and you should definitely keep up the great work! This is exactly what I was looking for. I started out trying the source-available version, and because it worked so well, I decided to go ahead and buy the full premium license."
— Oskar Krzak (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ via Gumroad)

"Natively is significantly faster than Cluely when it comes to response time and screen analysis. The latency is practically non-existent."
— Premium User

"Just wanted to say thanks! Natively helped me completely crack the first two rounds of my Software Engineering interviews. The responses were incredibly fast and accurate."
— Private Email Feedback

"Used the free version of Natively for my interviews and just landed a massive summer internship. It took all the stress out of the live coding and behavioral rounds!"
— Private Email Feedback

Why Natively?

While other tools act as simple API wrappers, Natively is a complete, native intelligence system designed specifically for high-stakes meetings and interviews.

• Native Audio Capture (<500ms): Built with Rust and Zero-Copy ABI transfers, bypassing generic web-audio limitations for ultra-low latency.
• Local Whisper STT (On-Device): 100% on-device speech-to-text using optimized ONNX models (Moonshine-tiny, Moonshine-base, Whisper-large-v3-turbo, distil-large-v3). Uses hardware acceleration (CoreML/Metal GPU on Apple Silicon, DirectML on Windows, quantized int8 on CPU) with zero cloud fees or data exposure.
• Dual-Channel Intelligence: Distinct pipelines for system audio (what they say) and your microphone (what you dictate) ensuring perfect transcription without room noise.
• Battle-Tested Stealth Mode: Completely undetectable. Hides from the dock, disables popups, and disguises the process during screen sharing.
• Modes Manager (7 Personas): Toggle between 7 tailored personas (General, Technical Interview, Looking for Work, Sales, Recruiting, Team Meet, and Lecture) with custom system prompts and dynamic meeting-note templates.
• Custom Context & Notes: A dedicated free-form notes area to paste instructions, crib sheets, or credentials (up to 8,000 characters), automatically injected into real-time LLM prompts.
• Rolling Context: We don't just transcribe; we maintain a "memory window" of the conversation for smarter answers.
• Local RAG Memory: We embed your meetings locally using SQLite vector search so you can ask, "What did John say about the API last week?"
• Reference Files: Deeply integrate PDFs, DOCX, and TXT files as real-time context.
• Rich Dashboard: A full UI to manage, search, and export your history—not just a floating window.
• Fully Offline Capable: Don't trust the cloud? Run Natively 100% offline using local Ollama models and local Whisper STT.

3 things you should know before choosing an interview AI

1. Cluely had a data breach in mid-2025 that exposed 83,000 users' personal info, transcripts, and screenshots — Natively stores everything locally by default with limited anonymous telemetry and has never had a breach.
2. Final Round AI costs $149/month and its taskbar icon is visible to proctoring software — Natively is free for personal/non-commercial use, source-available, and has a battle-tested undetectable stealth mode.
3. LockedIn AI charges $55–70/month and locks you into their cloud LLM with no local option — Natively lets you use any model (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama) or go fully offline with Ollama.

Demo

This demo shows a complete live meeting scenario:

• Real-time transcription as the meeting happens
• Rolling context awareness across multiple speakers
• Screenshot analysis of shared slides
• Instant generation of what to say next
• Follow-up questions and concise responses
• All happening live, without recording or post-processing

Full Comparison: Natively vs Cluely vs Final Round AI vs LockedIn AI vs Interview Coder

Legend: ✅ Full support · ⚠️ Partial or limited · ❌ Not available

Why Natively wins

vs Cluely — breached 83,000 users

The UI is intentionally familiar — if you've used Cluely, there's zero learning curve.

Cluely's mid-2025 data breach exposed personal information, full interview transcripts, and screenshots of 83,000 users. Every word spoken during an interview was stored on their servers — and then leaked. They charge $20/month for this privilege.

By default, Natively stores everything on your local machine, with only limited anonymous telemetry (basic GA4 install tracking, zero personal data). Your transcripts, API keys, and screenshots never leave your machine when using your own keys. The codebase is source-available under the Natively Personal Use Source License v1.0 and auditable. Zero breaches — that is the only acceptable standard for a tool that listens to your interviews.

Unlike Cluely's rigid interface, Natively also gives you complete control over the AI: Custom Persona Modes (Tech, Sales, Recruiting) to strictly format behavior, and Reference Files capabilities to upload PDFs so the AI knows exactly the context of the job or meeting before it starts.

vs LockedIn AI — $70/month for cloud lock-in

LockedIn AI is the most expensive tool in the category at $55–70/month. It locks you into a single cloud LLM with no option for local inference. Every transcript and response passes through their servers.

Natively supports every major model (Gemini, GPT, Claude, Groq) via bring-your-own-key, and offers 100% offline mode through Ollama. You pay only for the API tokens you actually use — or pay nothing at all by running Llama 3 locally. No subscription, no vendor lock-in.

vs Final Round AI — $149/month and visible to proctors

Final Round AI is the most expensive option at $149/month, optimized for pre-interview prep and mock interviews but with the slowest live latency in the category. Critically, its taskbar icon is visible to proctoring software, making it detectable during monitored interviews.

Natively delivers <500ms end-to-end latency using Rust-based native audio capture with Zero-Copy ABI Transfers. Its undetectable stealth mode hides from the dock, disguises process names, and syncs state across all windows — battle-tested and hardened across five major releases.

vs Pluely — lightweight but limited

Pluely is a solid lightweight alternative (~10MB, Tauri-based) and it has Linux support, which Natively does not yet offer. Credit where it is due.

But Pluely is a basic overlay. It has no local RAG, no meeting history, no dual audio channels, and no dashboard. Natively is a complete intelligence system: it remembers your past meetings via local vector search, separates system audio from your microphone, and gives you a full management dashboard with export to Markdown, JSON, and Text.

vs Interview Coder — More Powerful, Completely Free

Interview Coder is a paid tool focused specifically on coding interview assistance. Natively does everything Interview Coder does — and more — for free:

Natively covers the full interview loop — not just the coding round.

vs Parakeet AI — Memory and History vs Stateless Overlay

Parakeet AI offers basic live meeting assistance but has no persistent memory, no meeting history, and no local vector search. Natively remembers your past meetings via local RAG, lets you ask questions across all your history, and gives you a full dashboard to manage, export, and search everything. Furthermore, Natively includes Custom Persona Modes allowing the AI to structure notes and behave optimally for specific flavors of conversations, instead of relying on Parakeet's one-size-fits-all model.

Where we're not there yet

• No Linux support — we are actively looking for maintainers to help bring Natively to Linux
• API key setup overhead — you need to bring your own API keys (or install Ollama), which adds initial setup friction compared to all-in-one cloud tools
• No built-in mock interview mode — Final Round AI has dedicated mock interview practice; Natively focuses on live, real-time assistance

Free AI Coding Interview Assistant — Undetectable on LeetCode, HackerRank & CoderPad

Natively works as a free, undetectable AI coding interview assistant for standard online assessments. It captures your screen, analyzes the problem, and gives you real-time hints, solutions, and explanations — all through an invisible overlay that doesn't interfere with your coding environment.

Works undetected on:

• LeetCode (including LeetCode contests)
• HackerRank
• CoderPad
• Codility
• HackerEarth
• Karat
• Any browser-based coding environment

How it works:

1. Screenshot the problem with a single shortcut
2. Natively OCRs the question and sends it to your chosen AI (GPT, Claude, Gemini, or local Ollama)
3. Response appears in the invisible overlay — never on screen share

⚠️ Important: Natively is not designed to bypass dedicated proctoring software like Pearson VUE, ProctorU, or Respondus Lockdown Browser — these run at the OS level and are a different category entirely. For standard online coding assessments without dedicated proctoring software, Natively's stealth mode is not detectable.

Natively API (Hosted Tier)

Stop managing four separate services. One key. Zero configuration.

Are you managing separate accounts for your AI reasoning, live transcription, fast inference, and web search? Juggling multiple API keys, rate limits, and invoices across completely different categories of tools is unnecessary overhead. Natively API replaces all of those categories with one flat subscription.

Under the hood, Natively API connects you to the absolute best models for the optimal user experience:

• Backend AI Models: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and Groq.
• Premium STT Models: Google Chirp 2/3, ElevenLabs Scribe v2, and Deepgram Nova-3.

4 Categories → 1 Key

Your current unbundled stack:

• AI Intelligence (GPT/Claude/Gemini): per-token billing and usage anxiety
• Lightning-Fast Inference (Groq/Llama): strict rate limits to monitor
• Real-Time Transcription (Deepgram/Google STT): separate key + quota
• Web Search & Research (Tavily/Perplexity): yet another subscription

Replaced by Natively API:

• AI chat, transcription & web search — all included
• One flat subscription. Zero surprise bills. Starts at $8/mo.
• Single key. Zero rotation. Zero configuration.

API Plan Comparison

Don't start the long way. Skip the 20-minute manual setup. One Natively subscription skips all of it — AI, transcription, and web search are ready immediately.

Natively Pro

While Natively is free for personal, educational, research, and non-commercial use, we also offer a Pro Edition (available as Lifetime or Yearly subscriptions) designed specifically for power users and job seekers. Purchasing a Pro license gives you an edge in the job market, all while directly supporting the continued development of Natively.

🪙 Unlock Natively Pro with $NAT Token

We've launched the official $NAT token on Printr! Holders who maintain a specific balance of $NAT tokens in their connected wallet automatically unlock access to all Natively Pro features.

👉 Trade $NAT on Printr

Free vs Pro Feature Comparison

What's New in v2.8.0 (Latest Release)

Version 2.8.0 introduces the stateful "Intelligence OS" control plane, Hindsight long-term memory, deterministic answer humanization, sandboxed local code execution, and low-latency regional STT relay migration:

• Stateful "Intelligence OS": Transitioned to a stateful control plane with mode-aware priors (Sales, Technical, Lecture) that automatically route queries and filter context based on your active task.
• Hindsight Long-Term Memory (LTM): Integrates a secure local sidecar vector database that indexes past meetings, custom profiles, and documents, retrieving relevant semantic matches dynamically.
• Spoken Answer Humanizer: Deterministically rewrites raw LLM outputs to strip corporate jargon, filter out structure bugs (em-dashes, empty bullets), and optimize prose for natural spoken flow.
• Sandboxed Code Verification: Automatically extracts and executes Python, JS, and SQLite code in isolated local subprocesses, verifying correctness and auto-correcting errors before displaying a verified badge.
• Regional STT-Relay Migration: Migrated realtime audio transcription to low-latency regional VPS hosts with transaction-scoped quota advisory locks to prevent double-billing.
• macOS 12 (Monterey) Compatibility Guard: Added safety checks to prevent runtime crashes during Whisper local speech-to-text initialization on older macOS versions.

What Is Natively?

Natively is a desktop AI assistant for live situations:

• Meetings
• Interviews
• Presentations
• Classes
• Professional conversations

It provides:

• Live answers
• Rolling conversational context
• Screenshot and document understanding
• Real-time speech-to-text
• Instant suggestions for what to say next

All while remaining invisible, fast, and privacy-first.

Privacy & Security (Core Design Principle)

• Source-available under the Natively Personal Use Source License v1.0
• Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK)
• Local AI option (Ollama)
• All data stored locally
• Limited anonymous telemetry (basic GA4 counts)
• No user data tracking
• No hidden uploads

You explicitly control:

• What runs locally
• What uses cloud AI
• Which providers are enabled

Installation (Developers & Contributors)

[!NOTE] macOS Users (Both Apple Silicon & Intel Macs supported):

1. "Unidentified Developer": If you see this, Right-click the app > Select Open > Click Open.

2. "App is Damaged": If you see this, run the command in Terminal based on your download:

   For .zip downloads:

   copy

   xattr -cr /Applications/Natively.app
   

   For .dmg downloads:

   1. Open Terminal and run:
      copy

      xattr -cr ~/Downloads/Natively-2.0.2-arm64.dmg # Or your specific filename
      

   2. Install the natively.dmg
   3. Open Terminal and run: xattr -cr /Applications/Natively.app

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v20+ recommended)
• Git
• Rust (required for native audio capture)

AI Credentials & Speech Providers

Natively is 100% free to use with your own keys.
Connect any speech provider and any LLM. No subscriptions, no markups, no hidden fees. All keys are stored locally.

Unlimited Free Transcription (Whisper, Google, Deepgram)

• Soniox (API Key) - Ultra-fast, highly accurate streaming STT
• Google Cloud Speech-to-Text (Service Account)
• Groq (API Key)
• OpenAI Whisper (API Key)
• Deepgram (API Key)
• ElevenLabs (API Key)
• Azure Speech Services (API Key + Region)
• IBM Watson (API Key + Region)

AI Engine Support (Bring Your Own Key)

Connect Natively to any leading model or local inference engine.

Note: You only need ONE speech provider to get started. We recommend Google STT ,Groq or Deepgram for the fastest real-time performance.

To Use Google Speech-to-Text (Optional)

Your credentials:

• Never leave your machine
• Are not logged, proxied, or stored remotely
• Are used only locally by the app

What You Need:

• Google Cloud account
• Billing enabled
• Speech-to-Text API enabled
• Service Account JSON key

Setup Summary:

1. Create or select a Google Cloud project
2. Enable Speech-to-Text API
3. Create a Service Account
4. Assign role: roles/speech.client
5. Generate and download a JSON key
6. Point Natively to the JSON file in settings

Development Setup

Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/Natively-AI-assistant/natively-cluely-ai-assistant.git
cd natively-cluely-ai-assistant

Install Dependencies

npm install

Build Native Audio Module (Rust)

npm run build:native

Environment Variables

Create a .env file:

# Cloud AI
GEMINI_API_KEY=your_key
GROQ_API_KEY=your_key
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_key
CLAUDE_API_KEY=your_key
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/absolute/path/to/service-account.json

# Speech Providers (Optional - only one needed)
DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=your_key
ELEVENLABS_API_KEY=your_key
AZURE_SPEECH_KEY=your_key
AZURE_SPEECH_REGION=eastus
IBM_WATSON_API_KEY=your_key
IBM_WATSON_REGION=us-south

# Local AI (Ollama)
USE_OLLAMA=true
OLLAMA_MODEL=llama3.2
OLLAMA_URL=http://localhost:11434

# Default Model Configuration
DEFAULT_MODEL=gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview

Run (Development)

npm start

Build (Production)

npm run dist

This runs: Vite build → TypeScript compile → native module build → electron-builder

AI Providers

• Custom (BYO Endpoint): Paste any cURL command to use OpenRouter, DeepSeek, or private endpoints.
• Ollama (Local): Zero-setup detection of local models (Llama 3, Mistral, Gemma).
• Dynamic Model Selection: Preferred models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) now automatically appear across the app.
• Google Gemini: First-class support for the Gemini 3.1 series.
• OpenAI: GPT-5.4 and o3 series support with optimized system prompts.
• Anthropic: Claude 4.6 series support with corrected max_tokens.
• Groq: Ultra-fast text inference with Llama 3.3, and screenshot analysis using Llama 4 Scout.

Key Features

Invisible Desktop Assistant

• Always-on-top translucent overlay
• Instantly hide/show with shortcuts
• Works across all applications

Real-time Interview Copilot & Coding Help

• Real-time speech-to-text (<500ms latency)
• Fast Response Mode: Ultra-fast text responses using Groq Llama 3.3.
• Multilingual Support: Choose from various response languages, and set speech recognition matching specific accents and dialects.
• Anti-Chatbot / Human Persona System: Refined system prompts and negative constraints ensure responses are concise, conversational, and indistinguishable from a real candidate (no robotic preambles or lectures).
• Context-aware Memory (RAG) for Past Meetings
• Instant answers as questions are asked
• Interim/Final Bridging: Manual transcript finalization and interim bridging during recordings for higher accuracy.
• Smart Recap & Summaries: Instant meeting minutes and executive summaries.
• TinyPrompts™ Engine: Specialized prompt architecture for local SLMs (4B-8B params), ensuring instruction following and reasoning parity with cloud models on local hardware.
• Dynamic Note Templates: AI automatically generates structured meeting notes based on your active persona mode (e.g., Tech Interview follow-ups vs Sales action items).

Instant Screen & Slide Analysis (OCR) — AI Coding Interview Assistant

• Works on LeetCode, HackerRank, CoderPad, Codility, HackerEarth and any browser-based coding environment
• Capture a coding problem with one shortcut — get a full solution, explanation, and complexity analysis instantly
• Eager Code Expansion: Overlay dynamically resizes to accommodate incoming code blocks before React mounts the markdown code rows, preventing visual layout jumps.
• Hardware-Accelerated Transitions: Polished, custom cubic-bezier tweens handle UI growth smoothly, preserving candidate stealth and presentation quality.
• Invisible overlay never appears on screen share or recordings
• Multiple screenshot support for multi-part problems
• Smart fallback to Groq Llama 4 Scout if primary vision model fails

Premium Profile Intelligence

• Profile Intelligence Router (v2): Seamlessly categorizes user questions into distinct domains (Coding, System Design, Behavioral, Negotiation) to apply the most optimal reasoning path.
• Answer-Type Constraints & Follow-Up Resolver: Contextually tracks conversations to answer subsequent queries, and enforces precise layout constraints (such as short, conversational, bulleted, or code-only responses).
• Custom Persona Modes: Seamlessly switch between built-in personas (Technical Interview, Sales, Recruiting) or create your own custom modes tailored to any conversation.
• Reference Files & Custom Context: Upload PDFs, DOCX files, or type custom instructions to give the AI real-time context on your specific situation.
• Job Description & Resume Context: Natively understands your background and the role you're applying for to provide highly tailored, context-aware answers.
• Company Research: Get instant intelligence and dossiers on the company you are interviewing with.
• Negotiation Assistance: Real-time guidance and strategy during offer and salary negotiations.
• Evidence Validator & Live Deadlines: Real-time validation of factual claims and interactive deadline alert tracker during live assessments.
• PI Latency Tracer: Built-in granular latency profiling mapping exact time spent during the routing and LLM inference loop.

Skills — Custom AI Personas

Create local SKILL.md files to give the AI specialized instructions for any task. Skills are invoked directly from the overlay chat:

• Type / or $ to open a live skill picker — filtered autocomplete with arrow-key navigation, just like Claude Code's slash commands
• Or type /skill-name directly to activate a skill inline
• Built-in: Humanize AI Text — strips AI writing patterns and makes output sound human
• Add your own: drop a SKILL.md with a YAML frontmatter name: and description: into ~/Library/Application Support/natively/skills/<folder>/

Contextual Actions

• What should I answer?
• Shorten response
• Recap conversation
• Suggest follow-up questions
• Manual or voice-triggered prompts

Seamless Integrations & Sync

• Phone Link: Use your iOS/Android device as a wireless remote microphone or companion screen.
• Calendar Prep: Auto-syncs with Google Calendar and Outlook to prepare context before meetings.
• Smart Task Export: Send extracted action items directly to Jira, Linear, or Asana.
• Speaker Diarization: Real-time speaker identification tags individual speakers by name automatically.
• Codex CLI: Execute terminal tasks, manage workspace files, and run sandboxed code via native Codex integration.

Dual-Channel Audio Intelligence

Natively understands that listening to a meeting and talking to an AI are different tasks. We treat them separately:

• System Audio (The Meeting): Captures high-fidelity audio directly from your OS (fully supported on both macOS and Windows). It "hears" what your colleagues are saying without interference from your room noise.
• Sample Rate Auto-Detection: Dynamically detects and syncs true hardware sample rates (e.g., automatically handling 48kHz audio interfaces or external microphones without distortion or downsampling artifacts).
• Two-Stage Silence Processing: Combines adaptive RMS thresholds with WebRTC Machine Learning VAD to reject typing and fan noise.
• Microphone Input (Your Voice): A dedicated channel for your voice commands and dictation. Toggle it instantly to ask Natively a private question without muting your meeting software.

Spotlight Search & Customization

• Global activation shortcut (Cmd+K / Ctrl+K)
• Custom Key Bindings: Customize global shortcuts for easier control.
• Instant answer overlay
• Upcoming meeting readiness

Local RAG & Long-Term Memory

• Full Offline RAG: All vector embeddings and retrieval happen locally (SQLite + sqlite-vec).
• Semantic Search: innovative "Smart Scope" detects if you are asking about the current meeting or a past one.
• Sliding-Window RAG: 50-token semantic overlap to prevent context loss across chunk boundaries.
• Epoch Summarization: Smarter transcript memory management instead of hard truncation — no more losing early meeting context.
• Global Knowledge: Ask questions across all your past meetings ("What did we decide about the API last month?").
• Automatic Indexing: Meetings are automatically chunked, embedded, and indexed in the background.

Advanced Privacy & Stealth

• Undetectable Mode: Instantly hide from dock/taskbar with visually locked selector to prevent state mismatches.
• Cross-Window State Sync: Real-time state synchronization across Settings, Launcher, and Overlay windows.
• Process Disguise (Masquerading): Instantly change the app to look like Terminal, System Settings, Activity Monitor, or other harmless utilities to completely evade detection during screen sharing.
• Security Hardening: API keys are scrubbed from memory on app quit and credentials manager overwrites key data before disposal.
• API Rate Limiting: Token-bucket algorithm (burst/refill) to prevent 429 errors on free-tier providers.
• Local-Only Processing: All data stays on your machine.

Meeting Intelligence Dashboard

Natively includes a powerful, local-first meeting management system to review, search, and manage your entire conversation history.

• Meeting Archives: Access full transcripts of every past meeting, searchable by keywords or dates.
• Smart Export: One-click export of transcripts and AI summaries to Markdown, JSON, or Text—perfect for pasting into Notion, Obsidian, or Slack.
• Usage Statistics: Track your token usage and API costs in real-time. Know exactly how much you are spending on Gemini, OpenAI, or Claude.
• Audio Separation: Distinct controls for System Audio (what they say) vs. Microphone (what you dictate).
• Session Management: Rename, organize, or delete past sessions to keep your workspace clean.

Roadmap

timeline
    title Natively Product Roadmap
    section Recently Completed
        Personas : ✅ Custom Modes & Templates
        Trial : ✅ 10-Minute Free Trial
    section Short-term (1-3 mos)
        System Design : Visualization MVP
        Tokens : Integration POC
    section Medium-term (3-6 mos)
        Personas : Persona library expansion
        System Design : Advanced diagram types
        Tokens : Community features
        Platform : Mobile app development
    section Long-term (6+ mos)
        Collaboration : Collaborative features
        Ecosystem : Plugin ecosystem
        Platform : Multi-language support

Use Cases

Academic & Learning

• Live Assistance: Get explanations for complex lecture topics in real-time.
• Translation: Instant language translation during international classes.
• Problem Solving: Immediate help with coding or mathematical problems.

Professional Meetings

• Interview Support: Context-aware prompts to help you navigate technical questions.
• Sales & Client Calls: Real-time clarification of technical specs or previous discussion points.
• Meeting Summaries: Automatically extract action items and core decisions.

Development & Technical Work

• Code Insight: Explain unfamiliar blocks of code or logic on your screen.
• Debugging: Context-aware assistance for resolving logs or terminal errors.
• Architecture: Guidance on system design and integration patterns.

Architecture Overview

Natively processes audio, screen context, and user input locally, maintains a rolling context window, and sends only the required prompt data to the selected AI provider (local or cloud).

No raw audio, screenshots, or transcripts are stored or transmitted unless explicitly enabled by the user.

Technical Details

Tech Stack

• React, Vite, TypeScript, TailwindCSS
• Electron
• Rust (native audio with Zero-Copy ABI Transfers via napi::Buffer — enabling continuous audio capture without V8 garbage collection pressure, achieving significantly lower latency and CPU usage than typical Electron-based competitors)
• SQLite (local storage with sqlite-vec)

Supported Models

• Gemini 3.1 Series
• OpenAI (GPT-5.4, o3 series)
• Claude (4.6 series)
• Ollama (Llama, Mistral, CodeLlama)
• Groq (Llama 3.3 for text, Llama 4 Scout for OCR)

System Requirements

• Minimum: 4GB RAM
• Recommended: 8GB+ RAM
• Optimal: 16GB+ RAM for local AI

Responsible Use

Natively is intended for:

• Learning
• Productivity
• Accessibility
• Professional assistance

Users are responsible for complying with:

• Workplace policies
• Academic rules
• Local laws and regulations

This project does not encourage misuse or deception.

Known Limitations

• Linux support is limited and actively looking for maintainers
• Initial setup requires bringing your own API keys or installing Ollama
• No built-in mock interview mode (focus is on live, real-time assistance)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see our CONTRIBUTING.md for full guidelines on how to get started.

• Bug fixes
• Feature improvements
• Documentation
• UI/UX enhancements
• New AI integrations

Quality pull requests will be reviewed and merged.

Maintainers

License

Licensed under the Natively Personal Use Source License v1.0.

License Notice

Natively is source-available, not open-source.

You are allowed to view, fork, modify, and run this code for personal, educational, research, and non-commercial use.

You are not allowed to use this codebase, forks, modified versions, or substantially similar derivative works for SaaS, resale, paid tools, subscriptions, client work, commercial products, startup products, agency work, or any other profit-oriented use without written permission from Natively AI Private Limited.

Public forks must clearly state that they are based on Natively, originally developed by Natively AI Private Limited.

Commercial license requests: [email protected] · https://natively.software

Note: This project is available for sponsorships, ads, or partnerships – perfect for companies in the AI, productivity, or developer tools space.

Star this repo if Natively helps you succeed in meetings, interviews, or presentations!

FAQ

Is Natively really free?

Yes for personal, educational, research, and non-commercial use. Natively is source-available under a personal-use source license. You only pay for what you use by bringing your own API keys (Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), or use it 100% free by connecting to a local Ollama instance. Commercial use requires a separate written license.

Does Natively work with Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet?

Yes. Natively uses a Rust-based system audio capture that works universally across any desktop application, including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack, and Discord.

Is my data safe?

Natively is built on Privacy-by-Design. By default, all transcripts, vector embeddings (Local RAG), and keys are stored locally on your machine. We collect only limited anonymous telemetry (no personal user data).

Can I use it for technical interviews?

Natively is a powerful assistant for any professional situation. However, users are responsible for complying with their company policies and interview guidelines.

How do I use local models?

Simply install Ollama, run a model (e.g., ollama run llama3), and Natively will automatically detect it. Enable "Ollama" in the AI Providers settings to switch to offline mode.

How does Natively compare to Cluely?

…view the full README on GitHub.