Dottie vs Skywork.ai

Dottie is a free Mac voice assistant and agent that listens, reasons, and completes tasks on your computer. Say "Hey Dottie" or hold Option+Space to dictate, ask questions, or kick off multi-step work like sending email, scheduling calendar events, searching files, or reading what is on your screen. It is built for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 15.4 or later.

Unlike a chat window that only suggests steps, Dottie executes through 134 built-in system tools across email, calendar, reminders, contacts, notes, Safari tabs, files, photos, music, screenshots, weather, maps, and more. Responses stream in real time, and rich cards can show weather, calendar events, and confirmations inline.

Privacy is local-first by default. Speech recognition, text-to-speech, and local model inference can run on your Mac through MLX with no network traffic unless you opt into a cloud provider. OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Cerebras, and Ollama are supported when you supply your own API keys.

Dottie Desktop is free, open source under the MIT License, and distributed from GitHub. First launch downloads about 2 GB of default on-device models for chat, speech-to-text, and voice output.

Skywork is a cloud workspace that turns a short prompt into finished documents, slides, spreadsheets, websites, videos, and more. Marketed as the originator of AI workspace agents, it combines research, creation, and execution so analysts, educators, and teams can move from an idea to a polished deliverable without juggling separate apps.

The product spans multiple output modes from one interface: Slides, Documents, Sheets, Images, Videos, and an AI Developer mode. A built-in Knowledge Base stores reference material, Notes capture quick ideas, and SkillHub offers prepackaged skill packs for workflows like deep research with citations, sprint planning, and product video creation.

Skywork also supports longer-running work. Scheduled tasks can run automatically at set times even when you are away, and Skywork Browser provides a remote sandboxed browser for web tasks with encrypted session storage. The trust center documents ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27701, and SOC 2 Type I compliance, with user data stored in the United States.

Educators building course slides, consultants drafting client reports, and marketers producing multi-format campaigns are the kinds of users Skywork targets. Sign-in supports Microsoft, Facebook, GitHub, Apple, or email from the browser workspace.