Everywhere
An open-source context-aware desktop AI assistant that helps developers and knowledge workers turn the current screen into explanations, issue analysis, and cross-app action guidance.
Tool overview
Based on the available evidence, Everywhere looks worth watching and trying as a context-aware desktop AI assistant, but long-term adoption depends on whether you actually have frequent cross-app assistance needs. Its 6k+ GitHub stars are evidence of attention, not proof of usefulness. The stronger evidence comes from the official repository, the creator's development notes, and several how-to articles, which suggest it is more than a concept demo.
In practice, it is not an operating-system replacement, not a fully autonomous computer-use agent, and not just another chat app. A better analogy is an AI layer you can summon system-wide, combining screen context, LLM responses, and tool invocation. The sources repeatedly emphasize reducing copy-paste, app switching, screenshots, and manual context explanation, so it appears most useful for error analysis, reading docs, understanding interfaces, writing, and lightweight cross-app help rather than complex end-to-end automation.
On cost and setup, the evidence confirms it is open source under Apache 2.0 and supports multiple LLMs plus MCP tools.