Helper.im

Helper.im is a native ChatGPT desktop client for macOS, Windows and Linux. A global shortcut opens a floating assistant over any application, with 50+ built-in prompts, text selection actions, three output modes and access to 30+ models via OpenAI, Gemini, Azure and OpenRouter.

Helper.im is a native desktop client for ChatGPT that runs on macOS 12 and later (Intel and Apple Silicon), Windows 10 and later, and Linux. Rather than asking users to open a browser tab, it sits on the desktop and responds to a global shortcut, so the assistant is reachable over editors, email clients, browsers, PDFs and videos. The developer reports more than 10,000 users and describes the product as a better ChatGPT client, positioned against ChatGPT Plus, Office Copilot, Notion AI and Grammarly on price and on the breadth of applications it can touch. The core interaction is a floating window summoned with Alt plus X on Windows and Linux, or Option plus X on Mac. A user highlights text in any application and the tool offers to explain, translate or rephrase it. Typing a slash in the input box opens a library of more than 50 built-in prompts, and results can be delivered in three ways: as a chat conversation with Enter, as typewriter output with Alt plus Enter for plain text, or as paste output with Shift plus Enter when formatting matters, such as inside a code editor. The vendor positions this across content and marketing writing, coding help inside an IDE, email composition, social media replies and general work tasks. Under the hood, Helper.im connects to OpenAI, Gemini, Azure and OpenRouter, exposing more than 30 large models behind one interface. Users can swap engines and models without maintaining separate accounts, and a local key option lets them enter their own API key, though that path requires purchasing a local membership package. The feature grid also lists customizable assistants, plus reading, writing, coding and chat assistance modes. For developers, marketers and founders who move between many windows in a day, the appeal is that context switching to a chat site disappears entirely. Compared with embedding AI in one application, Helper.im bets on the opposite model: one assistant that overlays everything on the desktop. That makes it more flexible than Notion AI or Grammarly, which stay inside their own surfaces, but it also means no deep integration with any single tool. Users who mostly need a fast shortcut-driven assistant will find it efficient; users who need structured workflows inside a specific product should look at native copilots instead.