Assist

Assist is an AI meeting assistant tool for macOS that lives in your MacBook's notch and supports sales and customer-facing teams during live calls and meetings. Rather than opening a separate app window, it surfaces help from the notch while a call is running: it transcribes the conversation live, tracks meeting context, and generates suggested answers and responses in real time so a rep can stay in the conversation instead of typing notes. Its stated goal is to cut the administrative overhead around calls, follow-ups, and handoffs, with the homepage claiming up to 12 hours saved per person per week. Assist can run AI processing on-device as an option, which matters for teams sensitive about sending call audio to the cloud. It integrates with Google Meet for meeting context. Being a native Mac build, it has specific requirements: Apple silicon Macs on macOS 26 (Tahoe) or newer, with microphone and system-audio permissions; the current distribution is a development-signed 18 MB download and is not yet notarized. For BestAIFor readers comparing real-time meeting copilots, Assist's differentiator is the notch-based, optionally on-device design focused on live call support rather than only post-call summaries.

Real-time transcription and live answer suggestions during sales and customer calls on macOS