Dave™
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Dave™ appears when you move your mouse to the top center of the screen. It opens your apps, answers your questions, controls your music, finds your files instantly — and waits quietly while you work.
Click Dave™, or hover over the icons in the dock.
In the free version the AI runs on your PC (Ollama): no account needed, and your chats never leave your computer.
All your games in one library — and once you're in a game, Dave™ stays out of the way.
Log income and spending by chat or by hand, and see where your money went at the end of the month.
See the changes in your repos from the dock; commit, push and pull with a click.
Live captions write down what's said in a video or game and translate each sentence into your language — with the original right above it if you like.
Move your mouse to the top center of the screen: Dave™ and the dock glide down, then slip away when you're done.
Say "Hey Dave" and what you need. Speech recognition runs on your PC; your voice is never sent anywhere.
Finds any file on your PC while you're still typing.
Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and more: control the song from the dock and follow the lyrics. When music plays, Dave™ dances.
A light at the edge of the screen
Move your mouse, I'm right there
The night is long, the coffee warm
Dave™ is here, without a care
Over 60 costumes plus flag hats for 195 countries; Dave™ wears your pick everywhere.
Christmas
From meeting notes to screen recording, Dave™ has over 40 features — all in one dock.
Each of Dave™'s features is as useful as a separate app, but they all live in one place. Hide the ones you don't need in Settings → Features.
Set up Discord-style rooms with friends: chat and send files, images, voice messages, GIFs and Dave™ stickers. Talk with up to 25 people in voice chat, turn on your camera, share your screen or an app (with correct colors on HDR screens too). Anyone with the room code can join; conversations go directly between computers and are never stored on Dave™'s servers. Personalize your profile with a cover, an About me and link buttons; set your status and pin important messages. React to messages, watch videos and listen to music together and play the soundboard; push-to-talk and AI noise suppression are built in. Add friends and DM them; nobody else can see your friendships.
Quick notes, to-do lists and ideas. Make text bold, italic, underlined, struck through or colored, add links, and attach files and images to notes, or just drag and drop them.
Dated and timed tasks: type "pay the bill tomorrow at 3 pm" and Dave™ understands the date and time and reminds you when it's due. You can add tasks from chat too, and every morning Dave™ sums up the day ahead. You can also pick the day and time from the calendar button.
"Remind me about the tea in 20 minutes" or "tell me about the meeting tomorrow at 9" — Dave™ rings an alarm right on time, until you close it.
Pomodoro-style focus and break timers. Notifications wait while you focus, and Dave™ tells you when the break starts.
After a long stretch at the screen, Dave™ reminds you to take a short break.
The text, images and files you copy pile up in one place: find what you need, click, and it's pasted into the app you're using. Stored encrypted; anything copied from a password manager is left out.
Select text in any app and press Ctrl+Alt+D: translate, summarize, fix, explain or make it formal — then replace the selection with the result.
Press left Alt + Space anywhere and start typing: apps, files, images and Dave™'s own features show up as you type. Type "untitled" to find a program, "speed test" to run Dave™'s speed test or "12*7" for a quick sum; Enter opens or runs it. You can change the shortcut in Settings.
Hold left Alt and right-click. With files selected on the desktop or in File Explorer: batch-rename them, sort them into folders by type or date, zip them or move them into a new folder. With text selected: turn it into an email, fix it, shorten it, translate it, convert code to another language or fix a command. Only the actions that fit everything you selected show up.
Select a file, folder or app in File Explorer or on the desktop and press Space: a small window shows its preview, size, dates and location. Hovering is enough too; photos open large and videos play right there.
Hold left Alt and scroll up: the screen freezes and magnifies; scroll to zoom and move the mouse to look around. Left Alt + middle-click lets you draw on the screen with a pen, highlighter, arrows, boxes or text, then copy or save the result. Great for presentations and screen sharing. You can change the drawing shortcut (mouse side buttons work too) and turn it on in games if you like.
Lost the mouse on a big screen? Press left Alt twice: everything else dims and a ring lights up around your cursor. You can also turn on moving windows by dragging anywhere while holding left Alt.
Type "/address", "/iban" or "/sig" and press space: your saved text appears. Stored encrypted on your PC; the keyboard isn't watched at all while a game is running.
Search emoji, symbols and characters like ©, € or →; click one and it's typed into the app you were using and copied too.
One click away in the dock; from basic math to trigonometry, logarithms, powers and roots (f(x)). Works with the keyboard too; click the result to copy it, and past calculations are kept.
"100 dollars to euros", "price of gold", "5 miles in km", "350 °F to °C": instant answers with live rates, without asking the AI.
Finds old installers, duplicates and unfinished downloads and sorts the rest into folders by type. Nothing is touched until you pick and confirm; deleted files go to the Recycle Bin.
Press the ↗ button in any window's title to pop it out of Dave™ into its own window. It shows on the taskbar and stays open even when Dave™ hides; you can move it, maximize it and resize it from its edges.
See Windows notifications from apps like WhatsApp and Discord in Dave™'s bubble and mute the ones you don't want. Every notification stays in the list until you delete it; click one to read it in full.
On a Teams, Zoom, Meet or Discord call, Dave™ goes quiet on its own: notifications wait and Dave™ stays out of your screen share. When the call ends, it tells you what you missed.
Ask "what's the weather tomorrow?" and get a real forecast for where you are. Turn on the rain and snow effect, and when it rains or snows where you are, a little falls gently onto the dock.
Log income and expenses by chat or by hand; category budgets, savings goals, accounts and card debt, 12-month charts and upcoming payment reminders. With Premium: bank statement import, receipt reading, gold, currency and stock tracking, and an exchange connection.
Spotify, Discord, your browser: set each app's volume from the dock or mute it with one click. From chat too: "mute Discord". Switch between speakers and headphones from the same panel.
CPU, GPU, memory and disk gauges in the corner of the dock, CPU and GPU temperature included. You pick which ones you see. Click the gauges to see your computer's specs: processor, graphics card, motherboard, memory modules, disks and monitors, with live usage and temperatures. When the CPU or GPU goes over the temperature you set, Dave™ starts sweating and warns you; during a game it doesn't interrupt and tells you the peak temperature afterwards. If Windows doesn't share the CPU temperature, the small optional helper Dave™ Sensors reads it.
Measure your download and upload speed, ping and jitter right inside Dave™, in System specs or by asking, without opening a website. Uses Cloudflare's speed test network; your results stay on your PC.
Your Steam, Epic Games, EA app, Battle.net, Riot Games, Ubisoft Connect, GOG and Xbox games in one place, with their covers. Your Steam favorites, your own collections and library folders each get their own category, with recently played on top. Click to start a game; if it isn't installed, Steam installs it. Star any game, from any launcher, as a favorite.
Record your game's FPS with a shortcut: average FPS, 1% and 0.1% lows, a second-by-second graph, CPU and GPU temperatures. Record before and after changing a setting or driver, compare them and share the result card as an image.
Put a CRT, black and white, sepia, film grain, VHS, retro handheld, pixelated, night vision, inverted colors or comic book filter on your screen; Dave™ stays on top, unfiltered. Each filter has its own settings: CRT has scanlines, a phosphor mask, screen curvature, glow and presets. Turn it on and off with one shortcut. You also choose which screens it goes on.
Give your dock's app and feature folders an icon: pick one of 48 built-in icons or an image from your PC (PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP, SVG and more). The icon shows on the folder and in its title.
Classic, Retro (8-bit) and Marimba. On Halloween and over the holidays, the sounds of the season play.
Sign in and your chats, notes, clipboard history, settings and everything else are backed up to your account, and they come back when you sign in on another computer. Changes made on two computers are merged.
Press the ? next to any window’s title: Dave™ explains what the window is for, then walks you through it step by step, highlighting each part. In bigger windows like Finance, it opens the tabs for you.
Something wrong? Describe it in a few sentences in Settings; the details needed to fix it go to the developer too. Have an idea? Send it from the same place with "Suggest an idea".
Capture the whole screen or an area and record with your graphics card without slowing your PC down. In recordings you can turn computer sound (games, music, Discord) and your microphone on or off separately. You can also find the font of any text on screen. You can record your mic too, as WAV or MP3 at its own quality (e.g. 24-bit, 96 kHz). From anywhere, Alt + P screenshots an area and Alt + Shift + P the whole screen; you can change the keys.
The screen freezes and a magnifier follows your mouse; click any pixel and its HEX code is copied. The panel also shows RGB and HSL, along with your recent colors.
Select an area to copy the text in an image, a video or a page that won't let you copy, then translate or summarize it if you like. Runs on your computer, offline.
Type a link or any text and its QR code appears as you write; copy it as an image or save it as a PNG. You can also make one from selected text or just ask Dave™. Dave™ reads the QR codes on your screen too: open the link or copy a Wi-Fi network's password.
Turn images, videos and documents into other formats: PNG to JPG, WEBP or PDF, MKV to MP4, a video to MP3, Markdown to PDF, a PDF's pages to images. Crop images and PDFs, shrink PDFs, and turn a picture into a true vector drawing (SVG) where you choose the number of colors and how smooth the corners are. Everything runs on your computer, with no internet and no other app. Pin the panel and drag files straight in from File Explorer. Resize images to ready-made sizes or your own, one at a time or many at once from the Alt + right-click menu.
While you play, Dave™ keeps the last moments on your graphics card; press a shortcut or say “Hey Dave, clip that” to save the last 15 seconds to 10 minutes as a video. Anything you don't save is deleted on its own.
Shows what's being said in videos, games, streams or calls at the bottom of the screen, songs included. The text stays put: words are written once they're certain and never change. If you like, each sentence is translated into the language you choose. Runs on your computer; no audio is recorded.
Dave™ writes down your call on your computer and, when it ends, pulls out the summary, decisions and to-dos. Notes are filed into folders by topic; search them, or ask Dave™ about anything that was said.
Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud or your own domain: Dave™ lets you know about new mail. Read and reply, or have Dave™ summarize or draft for you.
Connect your calendar: Dave™ reminds you of upcoming events and gives you a summary of the day each morning.
How long you spent in each app, how many focus sessions you finished and what you spent; on Sunday evening Dave™ sums up your week. Only app names and times are counted; they stay on your PC and, with cloud backup on, are backed up only to your account.
Keep an eye on your projects from the dock: see changes, commit, push, pull and switch branches.
Over 60 costumes (animals, jobs, a jack-o'-lantern…) plus flag caps for 195 countries, with new ones unlocking as you spend time together and with every achievement. Everyone gets a party hat on their birthday 🎉
Choose how Dave™ talks to you: buddy, best friend, friendly, standard, business or gamer.
Choose Dave™'s color and the colors of your dock folders.
Dave™ does everything it can on your own computer. Your settings, notes, chats and file index stay on your PC. If you sign in to a Dave™ account, their backup is stored in your account only.
The free AI (Ollama) and speech recognition (Whisper) run entirely on your computer; what you ask and say goes nowhere.
No ads, no tracking, your data is never sold. Neither Dave™ nor this website uses cookies or analytics.
If you connect Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, your questions go to them under your own account. Mail and calendar connect directly from your computer.
Yes. You can download Dave™ and use it for free, with no time or usage limit. Premium only unlocks extra features.
No. In the free version Dave™ uses an AI that runs on your computer through Ollama; the first time, you pick one of five models (faster or smarter, each one explained) and Dave™ installs it. With Premium you can also sign in with your Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini subscription.
Your settings, notes, chats and file index stay on your computer. The free AI and speech recognition run on your computer. Only the online features you use (like the weather, web search or an AI you connect) talk to the service involved. If you sign in to a Dave™ account, cloud backup turns on and they're backed up only to your account (you can turn it off in Settings → Account). Details are in the privacy policy.
Directly between the computers of the people in the room. Messages, files and streams stay only on those computers; Dave™'s server just introduces the people in a room to each other and passes small encrypted messages until the connection is up, storing nothing. Because the connection is direct, people in a room can see each other's IP addresses, so share the room code only with people you know. If a direct connection isn't possible (VPN, school or work networks), the connection goes through Cloudflare's relay server; the content stays encrypted and isn't stored.
Yes. For questions like "What did I have to do today?", "Which game have I played the most?" or "What's in my notes?" it answers from your records in Dave™; with Premium also "What's my screen time?" and "How much gold do I have?". Say "change your language to German" or "turn off your sounds" and it changes its settings too. It works with whichever AI you pick. Only when a question is about your records does a short summary of that topic go to the AI you chose; with Ollama it never leaves your computer.
Every window has a ? button next to its title. Press it and Dave™ walks you through the window step by step, pointing out each part; in bigger windows like Finance, it even opens the tabs for you.
64-bit Windows 10 or 11. For AI with Ollama, 8 GB of memory or more is recommended; with an NVIDIA graphics card, speech recognition and AI run much faster.
Game mode keeps the risk as low as possible: when a full-screen game starts, Dave™'s window hides, it doesn't watch the mouse or keyboard, sends no keys and takes no screenshots. Still, we can't promise that the risk of an anti-cheat warning or ban is zero: every anti-cheat decides by its own rules, and those rules can change. Before ranked or competitive games, the safest choice is to fully quit Dave™ from its tray icon (Quit). Dave™ can also do this for you: pick games in Settings → Gaming and performance, and Dave™ closes itself completely when one of them starts.
Sign in under Settings → Account in Dave™, then choose your plan under Settings → Premium. Once payment goes through, Premium is added to your account automatically — no product keys. Sign in with the same account on another computer and Premium is there too.
Sign in under Settings → Account with the account you bought Premium with; Premium arrives within seconds. If it doesn't, press Settings → Premium → "I bought Premium but don't see it": I look again right away and tell you why if I can't find it. If you bought on this site, the email on your Dave™ account needs to be verified; you can resend the verification email from there. There's no need to buy again.
Yes, any time, from Settings → Premium → Manage my subscription. Monthly and yearly plans start with 3 free days; cancel before the trial ends and you won't be charged. After cancelling, Premium stays on until the end of the period.
Yes. If you installed Dave™ from Steam, sign in with the same account under Settings → Account and Premium turns on by itself. You don't need to buy Dave™ Premium again on Steam; the features are the same. You manage your subscription through the link in Polar's emails. Premium bought on Steam only works in the Steam version.
Yes. New versions download in the background, and Dave™ updates itself the next time it starts or when you step away from the computer for a few minutes (not during a game, a full-screen app or a recording). You can also update right away from the notification. You can turn this off in Settings → General. If you don't want update notices, turn off Settings → Notifications → Update notifications; the new version then just waits in Notifications as "Update now". The Microsoft Store version is updated by the Store.
On some computers (for example Ryzen desktops) Windows doesn't share the CPU temperature. If you allow it once, Dave™ installs the signed PawnIO driver and a small helper that reads the temperature: turn it on in System specs or in Settings → System monitor. If you installed Dave™ from the Microsoft Store, download the same helper here and run it once. When a newer helper is out, Dave™ lets you know. Kernel drivers carry a risk in games with anti-cheat: quit Dave™ before ranked matches.
Download Dave™ Sensors (for the Microsoft Store version)Dave™ Sensors is Dave™'s small, optional helper. On some computers Windows doesn't share the CPU temperature; reading it takes a driver and admin rights. Dave™ runs with normal rights, so Dave™ Sensors does that job: it reads the CPU temperature through the signed PawnIO driver and game FPS through Windows event tracing, and passes them only to Dave™ on your computer. Apart from downloading PawnIO during setup, it doesn't go online. It runs only while Dave™ is open and a value is needed; without it, the rest of Dave™ works the same. If you installed Dave™ from this site, Dave™ installs it for you with your approval; on the Microsoft Store version, download it here and run it once. You can remove it in Windows Settings → Apps as "Dave™ Sensors". Kernel drivers carry a risk in games with anti-cheat: quit Dave™ before ranked matches.
Download Dave™ Sensors (for the Microsoft Store version)In Dave™, open Settings → Premium and send your invite link or code. When a friend creates a new Dave™ account and enters the code within 14 days, you both get 1 month of Premium. You can earn up to 3 months; if you already pay for Premium, the months you earn start when your paid Premium ends.
Not yet; for now Dave™ runs on Windows only.
Dave™'s free version isn't a limited trial: the dock, AI chat, file finder, notes, finance, music and more are free forever. Premium unlocks extra features.
About $2.49 a month — 17% less than monthly.
Get PremiumThe easiest way is from inside Dave™: Settings → Premium. If you buy here, use the same email as your Dave™ account and Premium is added to it automatically. If your account uses an email and password, verify your email first; with Google sign-in there's nothing to do.
Invite friends: when someone creates a Dave™ account and enters your invite code (Settings → Premium), you both get 1 month of Premium, up to 3 months.
Don't need Premium but like Dave™? Buy Dave™ a coffee
Best value: Yearly
| Feature | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Assistant and AI | ||
| Dock, apps and folders | ||
| AI chat (Ollama, on your computer) | ||
| Current information from the web, with sources | ||
| PC commands: open apps, music, timers | ||
| Ask about your own data, change settings from chat | ||
| Ask about files, PDFs and screenshots | ||
| Routines: several steps from one phrase | ||
| Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini | ||
| "Hey Dave" voice commands and live chat | ||
| Productivity | ||
| File finder | ||
| Notes | ||
| To-do list and reminders | ||
| Focus mode and break reminders | ||
| Clipboard history | ||
| Text shortcuts | ||
| Selected-text tools (Ctrl+Alt+D) | ||
| Dave™ Quick Look (Space) | ||
| Dave™ Search (left Alt + Space): apps, files and Dave™ features | ||
| Alt + right-click menu: batch rename, sort into folders, ZIP, format text | ||
| Calculator, currency and unit converter | ||
| Emoji and special characters | ||
| Downloads tidy-up | ||
| File tools: convert, crop, resize, shrink PDFs, vectorize | ||
| Screen time and weekly recap | ||
| Git panel | ||
| Screen capture | ||
| Screenshots and screen recording | ||
| Computer sound and microphone in recordings, separately | ||
| Audio recording: at your mic’s own quality (bits, kHz), WAV or MP3 | ||
| Color picker (HEX, RGB, HSL) | ||
| Copy text from the screen | ||
| Find the font of text on screen (on your PC and on Google Fonts) | ||
| QR codes | ||
| QR code maker: from a link or text, copy or save as PNG | ||
| QR code from selected text or by asking Dave™ | ||
| Read QR codes on your screen (links, Wi-Fi) | ||
| Dave™ Rooms | ||
| Dave™ Rooms: chat, files, voice messages, GIFs and stickers | ||
| Text and voice channels, message search | ||
| Voice chat (up to 25 people) and camera | ||
| Screen and app streaming, correct colors on HDR screens | ||
| In-game list: see who is talking while you play | ||
| Moderators: mute people for everyone, disconnect them from voice, kick or ban them | ||
| Roles and permissions (like Discord): role color, order, channel, kick and ban permissions | ||
| Channel categories, icons and drag-to-reorder; a shared sticker library in every room | ||
| Profile card: cover, About me and custom buttons, for one room or all your rooms | ||
| Reactions, text formatting, status text and per-channel notifications | ||
| Soundboard, room emojis, watching and listening together | ||
| Push-to-talk, AI noise suppression, 0–200% microphone and speaker volume | ||
| Relationships: friend, close friend, partner, married…; icon by the name, frame on the profile | ||
| Friends and DMs (nobody else can see them); invite links open in Dave™ with a preview | ||
| Animated (GIF) profile picture and cover, profile color and frames | ||
| Mail, calendar and meetings | ||
| Notifications from other apps | ||
| Meeting mode | ||
| Calendar and morning summary | ||
| Meeting notes | ||
| Live captions and translation | ||
| Finance | ||
| Income and expense tracking (also by chat) | ||
| Budgets, goals, accounts and charts | ||
| Payment reminders | ||
| Bank statement import and receipt reading | ||
| Gold, currency and stock tracking | ||
| Exchange account connection (read-only) | ||
| Gaming and system | ||
| Game mode | ||
| Game library | ||
| In-game overlay: FPS, temperatures, usage | ||
| Game performance recording: average FPS, 1% and 0.1% lows, comparison | ||
| System monitor, specs and temperature alert | ||
| Internet speed test (download, upload, ping) | ||
| Close Dave™ completely when chosen games start | ||
| Game clips: save the last moments with a shortcut or “Hey Dave, clip that” | ||
| Everyday | ||
| Zoom and draw on the screen | ||
| Find the cursor, move windows with Alt | ||
| Music control and lyrics | ||
| Volume mixer | ||
| Weather and timers | ||
| Rain and snow effect on the dock | ||
| Cloud backup across computers | ||
| Step-by-step guide in every window (? button) | ||
| 11 languages | ||
| Pop windows out of Dave™ | ||
| Personalization | ||
| Birthday celebration and seasonal sounds | ||
| Achievements | ||
| Folder icons: built-in icons or your own image | ||
| Screen filters: CRT, film grain, VHS and more | ||
| Costumes | ||
| Personalities (6 ways to talk) | ||
| Retro and Marimba sound packs | ||
| App and folder colors | ||
Download it, install it and move your mouse to the top center of the screen. Dave™ takes it from there.
Download Dave™ BetaDave™ Beta isn't code-signed, so some antivirus programs and Windows may wrongly flag it as a threat.
Dave Beta: New versions arrive here first; Dave™ downloads and installs them itself. Windows may show a warning the first time you install: More info → Run anyway. Dave™ installs the temperature and FPS helper (Dave™ Sensors) itself, with your OK.
Features and Premium are the same in all three.