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Listen. Answer. Close.

A native macOS overlay that hears the interviewer and streams a structured answer the moment they finish — invisible on screen-share.

free forever open source bring your own keys
Live over any call

It floats where you need it.

TheCloser sits above your interview window and outside screen capture — flip to their view and watch it disappear.

Why TheCloser

Everything you need to close.

No account, no server in the middle. It listens, transcribes, and answers in real time — and stays invisible to everyone else.

Invisible on screen-share

Every window is excluded from capture at the OS level — Zoom, Meet, Teams, and recordings see nothing. No menu-bar icon either.

Answers as they ask

The live transcript streams to the model the moment they finish. Interview mode leads with a verbatim opening line, then tight scannable bullets.

Live transcription

Mic or system audio, transcribed in real time — on-device with Apple Speech, or ElevenLabs Scribe with your key.

Floats over everything

Always on top — every Space, even full-screen apps. Drag it anywhere, resize it, and it never steals focus from the window you're in.

Résumé tailoring

Import your résumé, paste a job description, and export a tailored DOCX — with before/after match scoring.

Bring your own keys

Seven providers, one picker. Keys are stored locally on your Mac — no markup, no middleman, nothing logged.

Session modes

Interview

Verbatim opening line plus scannable bullets, grounded in your résumé and the job description.

Meeting

Summaries, action items, decisions, and suggested questions as the meeting runs.

Call

Real-time assist on any regular call — context without breaking your flow.

General

A concise floating assistant for everything else you do on your Mac.

Global hotkeys

Never touch the mouse.

Every core action fires system-wide — from any app, no Accessibility permission required.

Show / hide the overlay⌃ ⌥ Space
Start / stop recording⌃ ⌥ T
Quick Ask by voice, push-to-talkhold Fn / 🌐
Dictate into the active apphold ⌥
Screenshot → explain⌃ ⌥ S
Explain the clipboard⌃ ⌥ C
Tailor a résumé from the clipboard⌃ ⌥ R
Move or resize the panel⌃ ⌥ / ⌃ ⇧ arrows

also included — session history · prompt library

Works with your keys
Anthropic OpenAI Grok DeepSeek Kimi NVIDIA NIM OpenRouter

Ready before they finish the question.

macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · MIT licensed · no subscription