We're proud to introduce use less AI: A macOS app that helps you think before you prompt. Recently, we noticed ourselves reaching for AI before even attempting to solve problems. Friends around us were experiencing the same thing. Here is how it works:

We find that everybody uses AI for different purposes. You can tune how strict the evaluation of your intent should be and in which topics our app should not grant access at all.

With our usage analytics dashboard, use less AI locally tracks how much you are using AI and how often you actually do not need it. This is great for you getting insights into your usual AI usage. Additionally, to tune the guard, you can adjust restrictions:

When you visit ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, our app asks a simple question: "What have you already tried yourself?" The goal is not to completely block access to AI but make you encourage to think about the problem yourself. Our tool additionally gives usage analytics: