hold to talk
The whole mic is a button. Hold, speak, release. Transcribed on your Mac, delivered in seconds.
self-hosted · own machines, own models · no cloud
Hold to talk.
Your words and the agent's thinking stream live on a dark canvas, the tape. The paper SLAPP — the QR — is the key that wires this phone to this Mac: scan it and the conversation travels with you.
$
curl -fsSL https://slapp.dev/install.sh | bash
hold to copy — the same hold that talks
terminal door free forever · app $10 once
the tape
Everything that moves, on one dark canvas
Hold the mic. Your words go up in ink; the agent's thinking and its commands stream alongside, in light. This is the tape — the live conversation, nothing hidden behind a send button. Swipe right, it goes back.
Answers can arrive as sound, a clip, or a set of photos — they play right here in the chat. Five looks, one word each: grid paper — the work sheet — plus manila, lime, amber and mint.
the dm
2m
the dm
ink is you · light is the agent · hold the mic to join
the SLAPP
The paper is the key
A printed SLAPP carries the QR. Point your phone's Camera at it and this phone talks to this Mac — no typing the address, no finding the port. Scan it once and the conversation travels with you, on any phone that scans that paper back.
SLAPP · this Mac's code
1 · print
The terminal door prints a SLAPP to paper, or on screen — nothing sent anywhere.
2 · scan
Phone Camera on the QR. It carries the address and this Mac's code, together.
3 · carry
The conversation now travels with that phone. Leave the house with it.
what it does
A door, one per Mac
thinking streams live
The agent's words and its commands ride the tape beside yours. You see it think, in real time.
it sees
Point, shoot, send. The agent looks at what you showed it and answers about that.
annotate
Scribble on the photo, circle the thing. The marks ride along — the circle is the sentence.
media in the chat
Sound plays with its own live bars, a clip plays inline, a set of photos lands as one small grid.
run it yourself
Security honesty is the selling feature
You run the model. You run the network. Nothing phones home. Own machines, own models — BYOK, paste your own model key. The compute, the repos and the model all live on your machines. No relay, no account, no telemetry.
In the app's settings: new code re-mints the Mac's code — every phone that has not learned it is locked out, which is the revoke; forget this Mac lets a phone go.
no cloud · no wake word · no subscription
Full install + security posture, read before you put a phone near a real network:
docs/SELF-HOSTING.md and docs/HARDENING.md ship
inside the slapp repo — which is private today
(github.com/Snail3D/Slapp returns 404 without access; ask the
owner for a collaborator invite).
price + install
Terminal door free forever
The terminal door and the SLAPP are free to run on your own machines. The phone app is $10, once — no subscription, no unlock, no trial clock.
$
curl -fsSL https://slapp.dev/install.sh | bash
A phone cannot pair yet: the bridge — the phone's door on :8651 — is a separate service whose source is not in the slapp repo. The line above wires the daemon and the terminal doors; pairing needs a bridge you supply.
No Mac yet? The app opens on a demo — the tape, a real conversation, no network. And when a row cannot answer, it says why in three lowercase words, never a silent spinner.
the line does
- clones slapp
- wires slappd :8123
- links the slapp command ~/.local/bin/slapp
- runs slappd as a LaunchAgent
you do
- paste your model key BYOK, no relay
- bind to your tailnet 100.x, not the internet
- scan a SLAPP to pair
need
- a mac only — no linux, no docker
- node ≥ 24
- your own model + key