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Natively — Free open-source AI meeting assistant, interview copilot, and note taker. The best alternative to Cluely, Otter, Granola, Final Round AI, Fireflies, and Interview Coder. Real-time transcription, AI meeting notes, lecture recording, local RAG, BYOK, and stealth mode. Runs locally. No subscriptions. No data breaches.

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Natively — AI Interview Copilot & Meeting Assistant

The best free alternative to Cluely, Final Round AI, LockedIn AI, and Interview Coder. <br/> Same UI as Cluely. More features. $0 for personal/non-commercial use. Source available. No data breaches. <br/>

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Competitors charge $20–$149/month, store your data on their servers, and one already breached 83,000 users. Natively costs $0, runs locally, and has never had a data breach. Your keys, your models, your machine.

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<small>Requires macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon & Intel) or Windows 10/11</small>

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<span style="color: #ef4444">👥 9,000+ Users</span>  ·  <span style="color: #f97316">🔥 700+ DAU</span>  ·  <span style="color: #22c55e">💸 $0 vs $149/mo rivals</span>  ·  <span style="color: #3b82f6">⚡ <500ms latency</span>  ·  <span style="color: #a855f7">🛡️ 0 data breaches</span>

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The Free-for-Personal-Use, Source-Available Cluely Clone

Natively started as a pixel-perfect recreation of Cluely's interface — then kept going. If you've used Cluely, you already know how to use Natively. Same overlay, same workflow, same shortcuts. Except it's free for personal, educational, research, and non-commercial use, source-available, runs locally, supports any LLM, and has never breached a single user's data.

Looking for a free personal-use Cluely alternative? A source-available Cluely clone? You found it.


What Users Are Saying

"Natively is significantly faster than Cluely when it comes to response time and screen analysis. The latency is practically non-existent."
— Premium User

"Just wanted to say thanks! Natively helped me completely crack the first two rounds of my Software Engineering interviews. The responses were incredibly fast and accurate."
— Private Email Feedback

"Used the free version of Natively for my interviews and just landed a massive summer internship. It took all the stress out of the live coding and behavioral rounds!"
— Private Email Feedback


Why Natively?

While other tools act as simple API wrappers, Natively is a complete, native intelligence system designed specifically for high-stakes meetings and interviews.

  • Native Audio Capture (<500ms): Built with Rust and Zero-Copy ABI transfers, bypassing generic web-audio limitations for ultra-low latency.
  • Local Whisper STT (On-Device): 100% on-device speech-to-text using optimized ONNX models (Moonshine-tiny, Moonshine-base, Whisper-large-v3-turbo, distil-large-v3, Parakeet CTC 0.6B). Uses hardware acceleration (CoreML/Metal GPU on Apple Silicon, DirectML on Windows, quantized int8 on CPU) with zero cloud fees or data exposure.
  • Apple Speech STT (On-Device): On macOS 26, Natively can transcribe through Apple's SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber without an API key or sending audio to a speech provider.
  • Dual-Channel Intelligence: Distinct pipelines for system audio (what they say) and your microphone (what you dictate) ensuring perfect transcription without room noise.
  • Battle-Tested Stealth Mode: Completely undetectable. Hides from the dock, disables popups, and disguises the process during screen sharing.
  • Auto Answer (Beta): Answers appear on their own the moment the other person finishes a question — Natively decides whether an answer is actually wanted and stays silent when it isn't. Off by default.
  • Modes Manager (9 Built-in Personas): Toggle between General, Technical Interview, Looking for Work, Sales, Recruiting, Team Meet, Lecture, Seminar (strict file-grounded Q&A), and Call Center — each with its own system prompt and meeting-note template. Build your own on top.
  • Browser Companion (Chrome): Press ⌘/Ctrl+Y to pull the page you're looking at — a job description, a coding problem, documentation — straight into your next answer.
  • Custom Context & Notes: A dedicated free-form notes area to paste instructions, crib sheets, or credentials (up to 8,000 characters), automatically injected into real-time LLM prompts.
  • Rolling Context: We don't just transcribe; we maintain a "memory window" of the conversation for smarter answers.
  • Local RAG Memory: We embed your meetings locally using SQLite vector search so you can ask, "What did John say about the API last week?"
  • Reference Files: Deeply integrate PDFs, DOCX, and TXT files as real-time context.
  • Rich Dashboard: A full UI to manage, search, and export your history—not just a floating window.
  • Fully Offline Capable: Don't trust the cloud? Run Natively 100% offline using local Ollama models and local Whisper STT.

3 things you should know before choosing an interview AI

  1. Cluely had a data breach in mid-2025 that exposed 83,000 users' personal info, transcripts, and screenshots — Natively stores everything locally by default with limited anonymous telemetry and has never had a breach.
  2. Final Round AI costs $149/month and its taskbar icon is visible to proctoring software — Natively is free for personal/non-commercial use, source-available, and has a battle-tested undetectable stealth mode.
  3. LockedIn AI charges $55–70/month and locks you into their cloud LLM with no local option — Natively lets you use any model (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama) or go fully offline with Ollama.

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Demo

Natively AI Assistant Demo - Real-time Interview Helper and Transcription

This demo shows a complete live meeting scenario:

  • Real-time transcription as the meeting happens
  • Rolling context awareness across multiple speakers
  • Screenshot analysis of shared slides
  • Instant generation of what to say next
  • Follow-up questions and concise responses
  • All happening live, without recording or post-processing

Full Comparison: Natively vs Cluely vs Final Round AI vs LockedIn AI vs Interview Coder

FeatureNativelyCluelyPluelyLockedIn AIFinal Round AI
Price✅ Free (BYOK)⚠️ $20/mo✅ Free❌ $55–70/mo❌ $149/mo
Source licensePersonal-use source license❌✅❌❌
Local data / private✅ Yes❌ Cloud servers✅ Yes❌ Cloud servers❌ Cloud servers
Any LLM (BYOK)✅ Yes❌ Vendor-locked⚠️ Limited❌ Vendor-locked❌ Vendor-locked
Local AI (Ollama)✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Local Whisper (On-Device)✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Real-time <500ms✅ Yes⚠️ 5–90s lag✅ Yes✅ ~116ms⚠️ Slowest
Dual audio channels✅ System + Mic❌ Single stream❌❌❌
Local RAG memory✅ SQLite + sqlite-vec❌❌❌❌
Meeting history✅ Full dashboard⚠️ Limited❌❌⚠️ Limited
Screenshot OCR✅ Yes⚠️ Limited❌✅ Yes⚠️ Limited
Stealth mode✅ Undetectable❌❌❌❌ Visible to proctors
Process Disguise✅ Terminal, Settings, etc❌❌❌❌
Resume & context✅ Pro❌❌✅ Yes✅ Yes
Custom Personas/Modes✅ Pro✅ Yes❌❌⚠️ Limited
Custom Context & Notes✅ Pro❌❌❌❌
Multi-Key API Pools✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Profile Intel Router✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Eager Code Expansion✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Live Follow-Up Resolver✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Real-Time Latency Trace✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Phone Link Companion✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Auto-Calendar Sync✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Smart Task Sync✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Speaker Diarization✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Hands-Free Auto Answer✅ Beta❌❌❌❌
Browser Page Capture✅ Chrome extension❌❌❌❌
JD Role Insight✅ Pro❌❌⚠️ Limited⚠️ Limited
9 Built-in Modes✅ Yes⚠️ Limited❌❌⚠️ Limited
Codex CLI Integration✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Offline SLM Mode✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Stateful Intelligence OS✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Hindsight LTM Vector DB✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Regional STT Relay✅ Yes❌❌❌❌
Data breach history✅ None❌ 83k users exposed✅ None✅ None✅ None

Legend: ✅ Full support · ⚠️ Partial or limited · ❌ Not available


Why Natively wins

vs Cluely — breached 83,000 users

The UI is intentionally familiar — if you've used Cluely, there's zero learning curve.

Cluely's mid-2025 data breach exposed personal information, full interview transcripts, and screenshots of 83,000 users. Every word spoken during an interview was stored on their servers — and then leaked. They charge $20/month for this privilege.

By default, Natively stores everything on your local machine, with only limited anonymous telemetry (basic GA4 install tracking, zero personal data). Your transcripts, API keys, and screenshots never leave your machine when using your own keys. The codebase is source-available under the Natively Personal Use Source License v1.0 and auditable. Zero breaches — that is the only acceptable standard for a tool that listens to your interviews.

Unlike Cluely's rigid interface, Natively also gives you complete control over the AI: Custom Persona Modes (Tech, Sales, Recruiting) to strictly format behavior, and Reference Files capabilities to upload PDFs so the AI knows exactly the context of the job or meeting before it starts.

vs LockedIn AI — $70/month for cloud lock-in

LockedIn AI is the most expensive tool in the category at $55–70/month. It locks you into a single cloud LLM with no option for local inference. Every transcript and response passes through their servers.

Natively supports every major model (Gemini, GPT, Claude, Groq) via bring-your-own-key, and offers 100% offline mode through Ollama. You pay only for the API tokens you actually use — or pay nothing at all by running Llama 3 locally. No subscription, no vendor lock-in.

vs Final Round AI — $149/month and visible to proctors

Final Round AI is the most expensive option at $149/month, optimized for pre-interview prep and mock interviews but with the slowest live latency in the category. Critically, its taskbar icon is visible to proctoring software, making it detectable during monitored interviews.

Natively delivers <500ms end-to-end latency using Rust-based native audio capture with Zero-Copy ABI Transfers. Its undetectable stealth mode hides from the dock, disguises process names, and syncs state across all windows — battle-tested and hardened across five major releases.

vs Pluely — lightweight but limited

Pluely is a solid lightweight alternative (~10MB, Tauri-based) and it has Linux support, which Natively does not yet offer. Credit where it is due.

But Pluely is a basic overlay. It has no local RAG, no meeting history, no dual audio channels, and no dashboard. Natively is a complete intelligence system: it remembers your past meetings via local vector search, separates system audio from your microphone, and gives you a full management dashboard with export to Markdown, JSON, and Text.

vs Interview Coder — More Powerful, Completely Free

Interview Coder is a paid tool focused specifically on coding interview assistance. Natively does everything Interview Coder does — and more — for free:

NativelyInterview Coder
Price✅ Free (BYOK)❌ Paid
Source licensePersonal-use source license❌
Works on LeetCode / HackerRank✅✅
Screenshot + OCR analysis✅✅
Real-time overlay✅✅
Local AI / offline mode✅ Ollama❌
Behavioral interview support✅❌
System design support✅❌
Meeting history & RAG✅❌
Any LLM (BYOK)✅❌ Locked
Data stored locally✅❌ Cloud

Natively covers the full interview loop — not just the coding round.

vs Parakeet AI — Memory and History vs Stateless Overlay

Parakeet AI offers basic live meeting assistance but has no persistent memory, no meeting history, and no local vector search. Natively remembers your past meetings via local RAG, lets you ask questions across all your history, and gives you a full dashboard to manage, export, and search everything. Furthermore, Natively includes Custom Persona Modes allowing the AI to structure notes and behave optimally for specific flavors of conversations, instead of relying on Parakeet's one-size-fits-all model.


Where we're not there yet

  • No Linux support — we are actively looking for maintainers to help bring Natively to Linux
  • API key setup overhead — you need to bring your own API keys (or install Ollama), which adds initial setup friction compared to all-in-one cloud tools
  • No built-in mock interview mode — Final Round AI has dedicated mock interview practice; Natively focuses on live, real-time assistance

Free AI Coding Interview Assistant — Undetectable on LeetCode, HackerRank & CoderPad

Natively works as a free, undetectable AI coding interview assistant for standard online assessments. It captures your screen, analyzes the problem, and gives you real-time hints, solutions, and explanations — all through an invisible overlay that doesn't interfere with your coding environment.

Works undetected on:

  • LeetCode (including LeetCode contests)
  • HackerRank
  • CoderPad
  • Codility
  • HackerEarth
  • Karat
  • Any browser-based coding environment

How it works:

  1. Screenshot the problem with a single shortcut
  2. Natively OCRs the question and sends it to your chosen AI (GPT, Claude, Gemini, or local Ollama)
  3. Response appears in the invisible overlay — never on screen share

⚠️ Important: Natively is not designed to bypass dedicated proctoring software like Pearson VUE, ProctorU, or Respondus Lockdown Browser — these run at the OS level and are a different category entirely. For standard online coding assessments without dedicated proctoring software, Natively's stealth mode is not detectable.


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Natively API (Hosted Tier)

Stop managing four separate services. One key. Zero configuration.

Are you managing separate accounts for your AI reasoning, live transcription, fast inference, and web search? Juggling multiple API keys, rate limits, and invoices across completely different categories of tools is unnecessary overhead. Natively API replaces all of those categories with one flat subscription.

Under the hood, Natively API connects you to the absolute best models for the optimal user experience:

  • Backend AI Models: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and Groq.
  • Premium STT Models: Google Chirp 2/3, ElevenLabs Scribe v2, and Deepgram Nova-3.

4 Categories → 1 Key

Your current unbundled stack:

  • AI Intelligence (GPT/Claude/Gemini): per-token billing and usage anxiety
  • Lightning-Fast Inference (Groq/Llama): strict rate limits to monitor
  • Real-Time Transcription (Deepgram/Google STT): separate key + quota
  • Web Search & Research (Tavily/Perplexity): yet another subscription

Replaced by Natively API:

  • AI chat, transcription & web search — all included
  • One flat subscription. Zero surprise bills. Starts at $8/mo.
  • Single key. Zero rotation. Zero configuration.

API Plan Comparison

FeatureStandard ($8/mo)Pro ($15/mo)Max ($25/mo)Ultra ($35/mo)
All-in-One Cloud AI Access✅ Yes✅ Yes✅ Yes✅ Yes
Real-Time Transcription✅ Yes✅ Yes✅ Yes✅ Yes
Included Natively Pro Desktop App❌ No✅ Yes✅ Yes✅ Yes
Premium Support❌ No✅ Yes✅ Yes✅ Yes
Higher Monthly Quotas❌ No✅ Yes✅ Yes✅ Yes

Don't start the long way. Skip the 20-minute manual setup. One Natively subscription skips all of it — AI, transcription, and web search are ready immediately.

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Natively Pro

While Natively is free for personal, educational, research, and non-commercial use, we also offer a Pro Edition (available as Lifetime or Yearly subscriptions) designed specifically for power users and job seekers. Purchasing a Pro license gives you an edge in the job market, all while directly supporting the continued development of Natively.

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Free vs Pro Feature Comparison

FeatureNatively FreeNatively Pro
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Models✅✅
Local AI Support (Ollama)✅✅
Local Whisper STT (On-Device)✅✅
Real-Time Speech-to-Text (<500ms)✅✅
Multi-Key API Pools & Key Rotation✅✅
Profile Intelligence Router (v3)✅✅
Auto Answer (Beta)✅✅
Browser Companion & Page Capture (Chrome)✅✅
9 Built-in Modes (incl. Seminar, Call Center)✅✅
Skills — Upload & Manage Custom Personas✅✅
Meeting Notes with Follow-Up Email Draft✅✅
Eager Code UI Expansion✅✅
Live Follow-Up Resolver✅✅
Real-Time Latency Tracing✅✅
Two New Meeting UI Styles (Liquid Glass/Modern)✅✅
Live Contextual Assistant✅✅
Screenshot & Slide OCR Analysis✅✅
Undetectable & Stealth Modes✅✅
Meeting Dashboard & Offline RAG History✅✅
Stateful "Intelligence OS"✅✅
Hindsight Long-Term Memory (LTM)❌✅
Job Description (JD) & Resume Context Awareness❌✅
Automated Company Research & Dossiers❌✅
Role Insight — JD Requirement Coverage Scoring❌✅
Live Salary & Offer Negotiation Copilot❌✅
Custom Persona Modes (Sales, Tech, etc.)❌✅
Custom Context & Notes❌✅
Reference Files (PDF/DOCX/TXT upload)❌✅
Phone Link Companion App❌✅
Auto-Calendar & Task Sync❌✅
Speaker Diarization❌✅
Priority Feature Access & Support❌✅
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What's New in v2.8.7 (Latest Release)

Everything since v2.7.0 in one release. The 2.8.0–2.8.6 builds were never published here, so their work ships in this update too.

✨ New

FeatureWhat it does
Auto Answer BetaAnswers appear on their own the moment the other person finishes a question. Natively judges whether an answer is actually wanted and stays silent when it isn't — no card to dismiss, no button to press. Off by default; enable in Settings → General.
Browser Companion ChromePress ⌘/Ctrl+Y to pull the page you're looking at into your next answer — a job description, a coding problem, documentation. One click enables it everywhere.
Hindsight Long-Term Memory ProA local vector database that indexes your past meetings, profiles and documents, so Natively recalls what was said weeks ago — not just this session. Opt-in from Settings.
Role Insight ProPaste a job description and see every requirement pulled out, checked against your profile, and scored for coverage.
Seminar & Call Center ModesSeminar for strict file-grounded Q&A (thesis defenses, paper walkthroughs); Call Center for support calls framed as issue → resolution → escalation. Brings the built-in count to 9.
NVIDIA NIM & NVIDIA SpeechA new provider for both text and real-time transcription, with nine streaming models to choose from.
Skills Upload & DeleteAdd a skill as a file or folder with a preview before it installs, and remove ones you no longer want — no more editing folders by hand.

⚡ Improved

  • A smarter answer engine. Answers now pick their source properly — your résumé, an uploaded document, the live conversation, or general knowledge — instead of blending them. Follow-ups keep the thread even after the topic changes.
  • Meeting notes, rebuilt. Summaries adapt to the kind of meeting you're in, get a real title instead of the first line of the transcript, and scale in length with the meeting. Plus editable speaker labels and a ready-to-send follow-up email draft.
  • Redesigned meeting overlay. Panel, pill and resize control move as one, answers stream in word by word, and scrolling back no longer fights you.
  • Faster everywhere. Answers are prepared ahead of time, local speech no longer stalls when a meeting starts, and live transcription moved to low-latency regional hosts.
  • Refreshed interface. Apple-style toggles, smoother section transitions, a new Soft Orchid accent, clearer code blocks, and calmer onboarding.
  • New default models — Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Gemini 3.7 Flash — plus the full Claude catalogue and real provider logos in the model picker.
  • Windows stealth typing. Type into the meeting overlay without your call ever losing focus. Handles Alt+Tab, clicking away, and steps aside for CJK/IME input.

🛠 Fixed

  • Startup. Fixed the app getting stuck on the logo, several memory leaks that could crash the launcher, and a crash that could stop the app opening ever again.
  • Meetings were being lost. A database bug meant some meetings never saved. Fixed — and a meeting is never left unnamed.
  • Microphone and audio. Fixed the mic being held after a failed start, capture breaking when you switch devices mid-meeting, and system audio missed on some Windows setups.
  • Answers. Your profile no longer leaks into unrelated technical questions, internal markers no longer show up on screen, and a slow provider can't overwrite an answer you already have.
  • Windows. Screenshots capture the right monitor, the cropper works across multiple displays, shortcuts no longer stop working in stealth mode, and the overlay stays above fullscreen calls and screen shares.
  • Language. Choosing English now actually keeps answers in English.

🖥 Platform

  • Electron 43 and TypeScript 7; requires Node 22.6+ to build from source.
  • Signed macOS builds for both Apple Silicon and Intel, plus a macOS 12 (Monterey) compatibility guard for local speech.

📄 Read the full v2.8.7 release notes →

Table of Contents


What Is Natively?

Natively is a desktop AI assistant for live situations:

  • Meetings
  • Interviews
  • Presentations
  • Classes
  • Professional conversations

It provides:

  • Live answers
  • Rolling conversational context
  • Screenshot and document understanding
  • Real-time speech-to-text
  • Instant suggestions for what to say next

All while remaining invisible, fast, and privacy-first.


Privacy & Security (Core Design Principle)

  • Source-available under the Natively Personal Use Source License v1.0
  • Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK)
  • Local AI option (Ollama)
  • All data stored locally
  • Limited anonymous telemetry (basic GA4 counts)
  • No user data tracking
  • No hidden uploads

You explicitly control:

  • What runs locally
  • What uses cloud AI
  • Which providers are enabled

Installation (Developers & Contributors)

[!NOTE] macOS Users (Both Apple Silicon & Intel Macs supported):

  1. "Unidentified Developer": If you see this, Right-click the app > Select Open > Click Open.

  2. "App is Damaged": If you see this, run the command in Terminal based on your download:

    For .zip downloads:

    xattr -cr /Applications/Natively.app
    

    For .dmg downloads:

    1. Open Terminal and run:
      xattr -cr ~/Downloads/Natively-2.0.2-arm64.dmg # Or your specific filename
      
    2. Install the natively.dmg
    3. Open Terminal and run: xattr -cr /Applications/Natively.app

Prerequisites

  • Node.js (v22.6+ required)
  • Git
  • Rust (required for native audio capture)
  • Xcode 26+ with the macOS 26 SDK (required only to build the Apple Speech helper or package Natively for macOS)

AI Credentials & Speech Providers

Natively is 100% free to use with your own keys.
Connect any speech provider and any LLM. No subscriptions, no markups, no hidden fees. All keys are stored locally.

Speech-to-Text Providers

  • Apple Speech (No API Key) - On-device transcription on macOS 26+
  • Soniox (API Key) - Ultra-fast, highly accurate streaming STT (recommended)
  • NVIDIA Riva / NIM (API Key) - Nine streaming models, including multilingual Nemotron and Parakeet
  • Google Cloud Speech-to-Text (Service Account)
  • Groq (API Key)
  • OpenAI Whisper (API Key)
  • Deepgram (API Key)
  • ElevenLabs (API Key)
  • Azure Speech Services (API Key + Region)
  • IBM Watson (API Key + Region)

Apple Speech requires a Mac running macOS 26 or later. Select Apple Speech in Audio settings and choose a recognition language. On first use, macOS may download the corresponding speech asset from Apple; the initial startup can therefore take longer and requires a network connection. Once the asset is installed, transcription runs on the device. Language availability is determined by macOS.

AI Engine Support (Bring Your Own Key)

Connect Natively to any leading model or local inference engine.

ProviderBest For
Gemini 3.1 / 3.7 SeriesRecommended (and the default): 2M-token context & low cost.
OpenAI (GPT-5.4 & o3)High reasoning capabilities.
Anthropic (Claude 4.6)Coding & complex nuanced tasks.
Groq (Llama 3.3/Scout 4)Insane speed (near-instant answers) & screenshot analysis.
NVIDIA NIMNVIDIA-hosted open models, pl

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