Tesseract

Description

Tesseract is an AI agent desktop app that makes presentations, websites, logos, videos and documents for you, right on your computer. You describe what you need in plain words, or say it out loud, and it carries the job through to finished files you can open, edit and send.

It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, and also in the browser. It is made by Eightcell Labs and is not related to the Tesseract OCR library.

Each job follows three steps. You ask for something in a sentence, Tesseract shows you a plan and then opens the tools it needs while showing each step, and you keep the result as PowerPoint, PDF, image, video or website files. It stops and asks before anything important.

Key features include 31 guided makers for things such as presentations, websites, brand kits, fonts, spreadsheets, invoices, newsletters, comics, songs, motion graphics and mobile apps, plus deep research, data analysis and search across 131 engines. A keyboard shortcut opens it on top of any app with a picture of your screen attached, and it can take over the mouse and keyboard to work in other apps, stopping at logins so you can take over.

The same install includes remote desktop, a private network for your devices (Mesh), a team chat app (Atrium), file sending, a password manager and undo for file changes. Jobs can keep running overnight and leave a report of every choice made. A talking in-app guide answers questions about the app.

It works with the AI you already use: sign in with a Claude or ChatGPT account, or add a Gemini API key, and choose a different model for each conversation. It lists support for 14 agents including Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and Gemini CLI. A personal-assistant maker can read your mail and calendar and send a morning brief, with integrations such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Teams and Notion.

Pricing: Tesseract itself is free with every tool included. Bringing your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription costs $0 and is not metered by Tesseract. Without a subscription there is a free allowance that refills on its own, and pay-as-you-go top-ups start at $10 and give access to the most capable models. There are no plans, seats or monthly bills.

It is suited to small business owners, freelancers and non-technical users who want finished work such as decks, sites and brand assets without learning prompts, as well as developers who want an agentic IDE and multi-agent tooling.