BoltAI Documentation
HomepagePricingChangelogDownload
  • Overview
  • Features
  • License
  • Getting Started
    • Setup
    • Your First Chat
    • AI Command
    • AI Inline
    • Use another AI Service
  • Chat UI
    • Overview
    • Basic Chat
    • Document Analysis
    • Advanced Voice Mode (beta)
    • Image Generation
    • Chat Configuration
    • AI Assistant
    • AI Plugins
    • App Appearance
    • Folder & Sidebar
    • Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Import from ChatGPT
    • Import from Claude.ai
    • Import / Export
    • Database Maintenance
    • Locations
    • Feature Flags
    • Community Icon
  • AI Command
    • Overview
    • Customize an AI Command
    • Alternative Profile
    • AI Command Behaviors
    • Instant Command
    • Bulk Editing Commands
    • FAQs
  • AI Inline
    • Overview
    • Inline Assistant
    • Inline Prompt
    • Inline Whisper
    • Advanced Configurations
  • Plugin
    • Overview
    • MCP Servers
    • Google Search
    • Web Browsing
    • Memory
    • Perplexity Search
    • Kagi Search
    • Brave Search
    • You.com Search
    • AppleScript
    • Shell Access
    • FFmpeg
    • DALL·E
    • Replicate
    • Whisper
    • Whisper (via Groq)
    • WolframAlpha
    • Gemini Code Execution
  • BoltAI on Setapp
    • Setapp Limitation
    • AI Inline on Setapp
    • Troubleshooting
  • BoltAI Mobile
    • Getting Started
    • MCP Servers (mobile)
  • Guides
    • How to create an OpenAI API Key
    • How to setup Web Search Plugin for BoltAI
    • How to set up BoltAI without an OpenAI API Key
    • How to generate Azure OpenAI API key
    • How to use Azure OpenAI API key in BoltAI
    • How to create an OpenRouter API key
    • How to set up a custom OpenAI-compatible Server in BoltAI
    • How to use Mistral AI on macOS with BoltAI
    • How to use Perplexity AI on mac with BoltAI
    • How to use Anthropic Claude on macOS with BoltAI
    • How to use Replicate AI on macOS with BoltAI
    • How to use Jina DeepSearch with BoltAI
    • How to migrate data to another Mac
    • How to back up your database
    • Cloud Sync Workaround
  • Troubleshooting
    • How to fix "This license key has reached the activation limit"
    • How to fix "You exceeded your current quota, please check your plan and billing details"
    • How to fix Accessbility permission
    • How to completely uninstall BoltAI
    • Can't select text in conversation prompt
    • API keys not persisted?
    • Download Previous Versions
  • Company
    • Run by a human
Powered by GitBook

Overview

What is BoltAI and why you should care

NextFeatures

Last updated 1 year ago

Was this helpful?

BoltAI is a beautiful and powerful AI chat app for Mac. It integrates ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) deeply into your workflows so you don’t have to go back and forth with the ChatGPT web UI.

Why BoltAI?

BoltAI comes from my pet peeve of switching back and forth between ChatGPT web and native Mac apps like Xcode or Apple Notes.

Many tasks are repetitive, so I built BoltAI as a way to automate these tasks, right within those native apps.

BoltAI’s main features

BoltAI is powerful with a lot of features, but it also comes with a learning curve.

There are 3 primary ways you can use BoltAI:

  1. Using the main Chat UI

  2. Using AI Command

  3. Using the Inline feature

In this documentation, you will learn how best to use these features for your workflow.

Chat UI

This is similar to ChatGPT with advanced features such as Web Search, custom GPT parameters, more AI models, custom System Instruction, Chat History Search…

AI Command

The AI Command feature allows you to invoke AI from any highlighted text.

To use the AI Command, highlight the text you need BoltAI to help you with, trigger the shortcut key (default Control+Space), and choose a command.

BoltAI supports 32 AI Commands by default: Text Summarization, Translation, Explain Code, etc. You can always add more custom AI Commands.

BoltAI Inline

This is the more advanced way to use BoltAI. You write down what you want, invoke a shortcut key, and then let BoltAI do the work.

BoltAI Main Chat UI