Quick Ask

Hold a key, ask out loud, get an AI answer in a small desktop window.

ElectronReactTypeScriptViteTailwindCSSDrizzleSQLiteOpenRouter

Hold a key, ask out loud, let go – and the answer appears in a small chat window. Quick Ask lives in the system tray and works on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Push-to-talk listens to raw key down and up events through uiohook-napi, because Electron's globalShortcut only reports key presses. The recording goes to OpenRouter for transcription, and the answer is streamed back and rendered with Streamdown. You bring your own OpenRouter key and pick the models from the tray menu; the key is encrypted with the OS keychain and the audio never touches the disk.

The model can call tools on its own: web search, calculations in a JavaScript sandbox (QuickJS compiled to WebAssembly, on a worker thread, with no network or file access), Vega-Lite charts, exchange rates from the National Bank of Poland, weather, time zones and image generation.

Features

Push-to-talk on right Ctrl (right Option on macOS), follow-up questions in the same chat
Any answering and transcription model through OpenRouter
Tools the model uses by itself, each one can be turned off in the tray menu
Conversation history in SQLite with Drizzle
Automatic updates from GitHub Releases
Installers for Windows, macOS and Linux built in CI