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v0.9.13 · free · expires 13 January 2027

Minnie is in open beta, and she's free — the pet, her voice, the wake word and real tasks on your Mac, with no trial and no subscription. She runs the AI coding agent you already have, so there's no extra AI bill either — but you do need your own agent. Minnie asks you to sign in with Google — that is the only thing she asks for. It is free, nothing is charged now or later, and it is what lets your setup follow you to a new Mac or a reinstall.

Download Minnie 0.9.13 →

Apple Silicon · macOS 14+ · ~148 MB

Installing

Takes about a minute. macOS will probably warn you about this app and you'll click past it once — Minnie isn't signed by Apple yet (a Developer ID costs $99/year; that comes with v1). Nothing about the warning is specific to Minnie; every unsigned Mac app gets it.

install · 3 steps

1
Open the disk image
Double-click Minnie-0.9.13-beta.dmg in your Downloads.

Paste this into Terminal

All three lines at once — they run in order.

ditto --noextattr --norsrc /Volumes/Minnie*/Minnie.app /Applications/Minnie.app
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Minnie.app
open /Applications/Minnie.app

3
Look in your menu bar
She comes on screen by herself. Minnie has no Dock icon — that's deliberate. If you hide her, the paw at the top of your screen brings her back.

Still blocked?

If macOS says "Apple could not verify Minnie is free of malware", openSystem Settings ▸ Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, and click Open Anyway next to Minnie. You'll only ever do this once.

Why the commands instead of dragging her to Applications? macOS marks the downloaded disk image as quarantined, and Finder copies that mark onto anything you drag out of it — which makes the warning stickier than it needs to be.

What you need

An Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later). Intel Macs aren't supported yet.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
Your own AI coding agent — Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, or a custom command. Minnie drives the agent you already pay for; she doesn't resell AI.
A microphone, if you want to talk to her. Typing works fine too.

Beta caveats

Things will break. That's the point — tell me when they do.
Minnie can run real commands on your Mac. She asks before each one; read what you approve.
This build stops working on 13 January 2027. She checks for new versions on launch and can update herself, so you shouldn't have to come back here.

Something broken, confusing, or delightful?Email me — beta feedback goes straight to the person who wrote it.