Which Screen-Aware AI Is Best: Jarvis, Highlight, or Cluely?

All three see your screen, but they aim at different users: Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) is the everyday work assistant, Highlight is the personal screen-context companion, and Cluely leans toward live conversation and interview help. Jarvis runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux; press Cmd+/ (Ctrl+/ on Windows) and it reads your active window, then answers via frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google and acts through 30+ connectors like Gmail, Slack, and Notion. Highlight focuses on understanding what is on your screen and recalling it; Cluely emphasizes real-time on-screen prompting during calls and meetings. If you want screen awareness that turns into actions in your real apps plus EU data residency and persistent memory, Jarvis ($16/month) is the broadest. For pure meeting whisper-prompts, Cluely is narrower and sharper; for personal recall, Highlight fits.

Screen awareness sounds identical across these three, but the intent differs. Jarvis uses screen context to do work: see a thread, draft the reply, file the task. Highlight uses it to build a personal layer that understands and recalls what you have been doing on your machine. Cluely is tuned for live, in-the-moment assistance — surfacing prompts during a meeting, sales call, or interview. So the right pick depends on the moment you most need help: composing and acting (Jarvis), remembering and querying your own activity (Highlight), or being coached while someone is talking to you (Cluely).

Jarvis is the most action-oriented of the three. Reading the screen is step one; the payoff is 30+ connectors — Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Notion, Linear, GitHub, Calendar, Drive — so screen context becomes a sent email or a created issue. It also routes per task across frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google rather than relying on a single model. Cluely's value is latency and discretion in live settings, not deep app integration. Highlight's value is the personal memory graph. If your goal is fewer copy-paste steps between seeing something and doing something, Jarvis's connector depth is the deciding factor.

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