basionwang-bot/HermesPet

HermesPet is a native macOS app that parks an AI assistant in the menu-bar or notch area of a MacBook, with no external dependencies and support for running multiple LLM engines side by side. The Swift 6 and SwiftUI implementation means it is genuinely native rather than an Electron wrapper, which matters for battery life and responsiveness on a laptop you use all day. The multi-engine parallel setup is the actual differentiator — you can route queries to different backends simultaneously and compare outputs without switching windows. The zero-dependency claim is worth verifying, but if it holds, setup is a drag-and-drop install. Reservation: this is a personal project at an early stage, documentation appears primarily in Chinese, and there is no obvious update cadence yet. The concept is solid but the polish level of a one-person Swift project varies widely. -> Best for: indie hacker or solo founder who lives on a MacBook and wants a lightweight always-on AI assistant without Electron overhead