Quiet while you type
Typing or using the mouse fades the highlight and dot, and everything holds still until you rest.
Free · open source · for Mac
Run Claude by looking at it.
Look at a session to pick it. Pinch twice to talk. Thumbs-up to send.
Ensemble turns your webcam into a remote for every Claude session on your screens: your nose picks the session, your fingers drive Claude's own dictation. Your video never leaves your Mac.
Ensemble is a Mac app, and the demo needs a laptop or desktop camera.
Ensemble needs your camera
I talk to my agents now, a dozen Claude sessions on three screens, each one waiting to hear what I want. So I got rid of the find and the click: I look at a session, I pinch, I talk, thumbs-up, next.
The reviews are in.
Real texts from my friends, word for word, with the names swapped for what I would call them. I made this for fun and I am not selling anything, so if my friends like it, I am happy.
Pick them up. Throw them.
That is the point.
The small safeguards
Incredibly intuitive.
Most of what makes Ensemble comfortable is what it declines to do.
A warning when your gaze drifts
While you dictate, looking toward another session lights the shared edge blue.
Drift never loses your words
Switching sessions stops the dictation and leaves the text in the box.
Stands down when you look away
With another app in front, no gesture acts, no focus moves and nothing touches that app.
You cannot send what you did not narrate
A message goes out only if you dictated it, in that focused session, through Ensemble.
- CameraReads your head and hands. Frames are never saved or sent.Needed
- AccessibilityPresses Claude's own dictation, Send and scroll controls.Needed
MicrophoneNot needed: Claude does the listening.
Minimal permissions
Dictation uses Claude's own microphone; Ensemble asks only for Camera and Accessibility, plus an optional Microphone permission that draws the live sound bars and records nothing.
Other audio steps aside
Music on your speakers pauses while you dictate and resumes afterwards.
A closed lid does not stop you
The input moves to another microphone when the lid closes, and back when it opens.
How it works
01
Look.
Focus follows your nose. The session you face gets the blue outline.
02
Pinch twice.
Two quick pinches of thumb and index start Claude's own dictation.
03
Talk.
Say what you want. The words land in the session you are looking at.
04
Thumbs-up.
Hold it to send. Then look at the next session.
05
Pinch and drag.
Pinch, then move your hand up or down to scroll the session you are looking at.
Download
01Open the download and drag Ensemble to Applications.
02Open it. macOS will say Apple could not verify that Ensemble is free of malware, with only Move to Trash and Done: press Done, go to System Settings, Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway, and enter your Mac password when asked.
03Allow Camera and Accessibility, then follow the short tour.
Download for Mac
Needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 14.2 or later, a webcam, and the Claude desktop app. Camera frames are read in memory and never stored or sent.