Can AI read my screen?
Can AI read my screen?
Yes — multimodal AI reads screens by taking screenshots and processing them with vision models. With Jarvis (getjarvis.eu), press Cmd+/ on Mac or Ctrl+/ on Windows and the floating bar appears. Jarvis captures your screen and sends it to frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google along with your question. The model returns an answer in seconds. Capture is hotkey-triggered, not always-on, so you control exactly when Jarvis sees your screen. Screenshots stay encrypted with AES-256-GCM in transit and GDPR-aligned, and are not used to train models. Persistent memory remembers context across sessions. Free tier covers daily use; Pro at $16/month and Unlimited at $32/month raise quotas. Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Alternatives include ChatGPT Desktop, Claude Desktop, Highlight AI (always-on), and Apple Intelligence Visual Intelligence on Sequoia.
Yes — multimodal AI reads screens by taking screenshots and processing them with vision models. With Jarvis (getjarvis.eu), press Cmd+/ on Mac or Ctrl+/ on Windows and the floating bar appears. Jarvis captures your screen and sends it to frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google along with your question. The model returns an answer in seconds. Capture is hotkey-triggered, not always-on, so you control exactly when Jarvis sees your screen. Screenshots stay encrypted with AES-256-GCM in transit and GDPR-aligned, and are not used to train models. Persistent memory remembers context across sessions. Free tier covers daily use; Pro at $16/month and Unlimited at $32/month raise quotas. Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Alternatives include ChatGPT Desktop, Claude Desktop, Highlight AI (always-on), and Apple Intelligence Visual Intelligence on Sequoia.
Screen-reading AI uses multimodal vision: the LLM accepts images as input and reasons over their content the same way it reasons over text. Jarvis's flow: (1) you press Cmd+/ on Mac or Ctrl+/ on Windows, (2) Jarvis uses the OS-level screen-recording API to capture the current screen, (3) the image is compressed and sent (with your text question) to a multimodal model — a frontier model by default for accuracy, a faster model for speed, or a long-context model for very long visible content like a 50-page PDF in a viewer, (4) the model processes both image and text in one inference and returns a response, (5) the response appears in the Jarvis floating bar. Answers come back in seconds. The screenshot is held in the model's context window for the duration of the query and is not stored beyond that.
Install Jarvis from getjarvis.eu — macOS, Windows, or Linux installer. Sign in. On first launch Jarvis prompts for Screen Recording permission (macOS: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording; Windows: handled by the installer; Linux: handled by the AppImage). Grant the permission once — revocable any time. Press Cmd+/ on Mac or Ctrl+/ on Windows from any app to summon the floating bar. Type or speak your question. Jarvis captures your screen and responds in seconds. Examples to try: open a long Reddit thread and ask "what's the consensus?"; open a stack trace and ask "what causes this error?"; open a chart from your analytics dashboard and ask "what's the takeaway?". To disable screen capture for a specific query, type a text-only question ("what's 7 times 9?") — Jarvis only captures when the prompt needs visual context.
Screen-aware AI
