Alter

About Alter

Alter key features

• **Instant AI-Driven Actions**: Alter allows users to perform AI-driven actions across various macOS applications, including managing emails, creating presentations, and summarizing content, all without lengthy conversations.
• **Context-Aware Content Creation**: Users can create presentations, diagrams, and interactive charts based on their current tasks, with the ability to export these artifacts in HTML or PDF formats.
• **Support for Multiple AI Providers**: The application supports a range of AI models from multiple providers, including OpenAI, Claude, and Groq, and allows users to utilize local models for enhanced privacy.
• **Customizable AI Actions**: Users can create, modify, and share their own AI actions, as well as utilize automatic keyboard shortcuts for a more personalized workflow.
• **Generous Free Plan**: Alter offers a free plan that includes approximately 100 messages with GPT-4 and unlimited usage with local models, providing extensive features without requiring users to provide their own API keys.

Alter use cases

• **Email Management**: Summarize multiple emails, generate draft replies, and extract actionable to-dos in Apple Mail.
• **Content Creation**: Create presentations, diagrams, and interactive charts from selected files or text, and export them in HTML or PDF formats.
• **Text Editing**: Fix typos and grammar errors in any macOS app by highlighting text and applying corrections.
• **Research Assistance**: Summarize research papers, blog posts, and meeting notes by selecting text or files in Finder.
• **Translation Services**: Translate documents or selected text across various applications seamlessly.

Useful for

• Provides instant AI-driven actions across various macOS applications, streamlining workflows and enhancing productivity.
• Supports the creation of presentations, diagrams, and interactive charts, allowing users to generate shareable content quickly.
• Offers a generous free plan with access to multiple AI models and features, making it accessible for users without upfront costs.
• Integrates seamlessly with Finder for file and folder actions, enabling users to act on selected documents and streamline their tasks.
• Ensures full privacy with options for local model support, allowing users to maintain control over their data.

Price

• **Free Plan**: Approximately 100 GPT-4o messages or more with other providers; unlimited use with local models; all features included.
• **Power User Plan**: $240/year; includes everything in the Free plan, 500 credits per month (equivalent to 875 GPT-4o messages), web search capabilities, and image generation.
• **Self-service Plan**: $29/year; includes everything in the Free plan and removes upgrade pop-up notifications.
• **Credits**: 500 credits per month included in the Power User Plan; additional credits can be purchased as needed.
• **Cancellation Policy**: Subscriptions do not renew automatically; users can continue using the app until the end of their current subscription.