AIVA for Screen Awareness
It can seewhat you’re looking at.
Ask AIVA to look at your screen and it captures a single screenshot, reads it with a vision model, and helps — the error, the article, the PDF, the email you’re reading. Only on demand, only after you grant permission, never on a timer.
What AIVA can do
Concrete help with Screen Awareness.
Read what’s on screen
On a single capture, AIVA extracts the active app and window title, visible text, any errors, URLs, and code snippets, plus a short summary.
Help with what you see
“What does this error mean?”, “summarize what’s on my screen”, “help me reply to this email”, “pull the key dates out of this PDF.”
Capture only on demand
AIVA captures when you ask, or when a screenshot would clearly help — never on a timer, never in the background, never when it’s closed.
Ask before each look
Leave “Ask before each screen capture” on and every capture surfaces a quick approval first, so nothing is seen without your say-so.
Example prompts
Just say it in plain language.
Look at my screen — why is this stack trace happening?
Summarize the article I have open.
Help me write a polite no to this email I’m reading.
What does this say in English?
Pull the key dates out of this PDF.
Don’t look at my screen for a bit.
Actions available
The tools AIVA actually has.
Capture
A single on-demand screenshot.
Extract
Active app, visible text, errors, URLs, code.
Summarize
A short description of what’s happening.
Gate
“Ask before each capture” surfaces approval each time.
Pause
“Don’t look for a bit” / “you can look again.”
Permission model
You stay in control of every consequential action.
Read-only work happens silently. Anything that changes the world waits for your approval — and destructive actions always ask prominently.
Common workflows
How people put it to work.
Debugging buddy
With your IDE open, ask AIVA to read the stack trace and explain what’s breaking — no copy-paste.
Reading help
Summarize a long article or translate a foreign-language page that’s already on screen.
In-context email
While reading a message, ask AIVA to draft the reply based on what’s on screen.
Without your approval, AIVA won’t
No surprises.
These never happen on their own. AIVA drafts and asks; you decide.
- Capture without the macOS permission and runtime toggle enabled
- Capture each time (when “ask before each capture” is on)
- Click, scroll, type, or capture in the background / on a timer
Local-first notes
Your data, on your machine.
No rolling buffer — a screenshot is taken only at the moment of capture.
The screenshot goes to the vision model for interpretation, then isn’t retained — only the structured summary becomes context.
Turn the runtime toggle off for sensitive material, or just tell AIVA to hold off.
Related workflows
AIVA works better together.
Core feature
AIVA for Voice
AIVA listens and speaks — free with the Mac’s built-in voices, or richer with OpenAI or ElevenLabs. Five activation modes, natural interruption, and follow-up listening make it feel like a conversation, not a command line.
The app
AIVA for Mac
AIVA is a native Mac app, not a browser tab. It runs locally on 127.0.0.1, keeps its data on your machine, and stays on in the background — remembering, following through, and only surfacing what’s genuinely useful.
Built-in app
AIVA for Local Files
AIVA keeps its own file cabinet on your Mac — drafts, exports, research reports, received attachments, generated artifacts — so the work it produces is organized and findable instead of lost in chat.
Get started
Let AIVA handle Screen Awareness for you.
Create your account on the web — it carries straight into the Mac app.