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CLUSTER FLOATING-CHAT-DESKTOP · 15 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-03

Global hotkey AI chat panels

This cluster comprises desktop apps that use a global hotkey to summon a floating panel for interacting with AI chat assistants, including access to past conversation sessions. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from — it predates the index or its members are undated. Among the members with traction activity, cursi leads with 5 stars, followed by AIQuad and pi-popchat, each with 1 star.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 10OCT 2026: 4
AUG 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 13 unlabelled

Operator · 10 hobby · 1 indie · 1 open source · 3 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01troetochie29★todayliveDesktop app that suggests ready-made responses in chat fields on macOS and Windows and inserts the selected suggestion with Tab.
  2. 02cursi6★1 moliveDesktop app that pops an AI chat panel next to the cursor to answer questions, summarize, translate, and fix selected text.
  3. 03Quick-Chat2★today—hobbyMenu-bar app that opens a small floating chat window with a global keyboard shortcut for quick chatbot questions.
  4. 04askthis3★1 day—Desktop quick-look tool that gives instant AI answers when a user selects text anywhere and presses a shortcut.
  5. 05dsh-island1★25 days—hobbyDesktop companion app that shows AI chat session status and transient notifications in a dockable island on the screen edge.
  6. 06side-inbox0★19 days—hobbyUtility app that saves AI side-chat output from coding tools to a local inbox via a global hotkey, letting users retrieve it later without polluting the main conversation.
  7. 07DeepSeekBall0★24 days—hand-codedhobbyWindows desktop floating-ball AI assistant that opens a chat panel, supports multiple AI providers, screenshot and clipboard questions, and stores data locally.
  8. 08mac-danmu-hime0★10 days—hobbymacOS app that displays Bilibili live-stream chat comments in a floating always-on-top window.
  9. 09AI-Prompt-Quick-Select-Wheel0★19 days—hobbyDesktop utility that opens a quick-select wheel with a hotkey to paste saved AI prompts into any chat or app.
  10. 10ag-attention-bridge0★27 days—hobbyDesktop companion that shows an AI coding assistant's questions and permission requests in always-on-top modals with a tray icon, allowing quick keyboard replies.
  11. 11hermes-glance0★27 days—open sourcemacOS desktop widget that displays ongoing AI assistant sessions in a floating window and opens conversations when clicked.
  12. 12dsh-bubble0★17 days—hobbyFloating-screen assistant plugin that opens a chat panel with an AI agent, translates or searches selected text, and runs long background coding tasks.
  13. 13pi-popchat1★1 mo—hobbyDesktop app that opens a floating chat window with a global hotkey to talk to an AI coding agent and revisit past sessions.
  14. 14FloatAssist0★1 mo—hobbymacOS app that provides a global shortcut to a floating panel for AI chat assistants and clipboard input.
  15. 15contextjule0★1 mo—hand-codedindieDesktop companion app that shows how full an AI chat session's context window is through an animated on-screen character.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.