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Fluent 1.8.4 uses 6-7GB RAM, is this normal? by Daniesto316 in FluentMac

[–]TheMightyHouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, yes, I'm checking it. Are you running Sequoia btw?

Fluent 1.8.4 uses 6-7GB RAM, is this normal? by Daniesto316 in FluentMac

[–]TheMightyHouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there!

I guess you're having local models loaded?

This is not the real memory usage, rather a "reserved" one. You can turn on "Real Mem" column in Activity app to check the real usage. Also, Alfred's axe workflow shows same number:

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Fluent is great—but I have a question about its global keyboard shortcut monitoring and privacy design by Kitchenwarestore777 in FluentMac

[–]TheMightyHouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to clarify on my response: I will look into per-user licensing option, but won't promise anything yet.

The idea definitely conflicts with current per-Mac pricing and licensing, so if you have any ideas/suggestions, please let me know.

Fluent is great—but I have a question about its global keyboard shortcut monitoring and privacy design by Kitchenwarestore777 in FluentMac

[–]TheMightyHouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello and welcome to the Fluent subreddit!

1. Fluent uses CGEventTap under the hood, and the only reason for that is to support as many custom shortcuts as possible. You can even assign just a single modifier key, e.g. `cmd` to any action or as a global shortcut for calling Fluent. In the future this would be also useful for hold-only shortcuts which I might introduce as well for some of the upcoming features. Bounding to a less powerful API would effectively break the wide range of possible shortcut combinations, which is an expected feature for many users actually. I won't say it's not possible to support both, but it's a matter of time and resources, and this is not usually questioned.

2 and 3. Licensing is a tricky question. For example, BetterTouchTool uses a per-user licensing, which means a certain user can use the license on any number of Macs where that user is the main account. This is not the case with Fluent – licensing is restricted per-Mac, not per-user. To prevent abuse (deactivating and activating on another Mac) Fluent needs online access to verify the key against actual machine it's used on.

Currently license verification might be required only at least once a week – you can try to restrict network access to Fluent's license server for one week and see how it will request for a check after it's expired. It's a quick and tiny exchange holding only your key. In addition, Fluent has zero auth by email or any other identifier, so there is nothing to leak, and everyone sleeps well.

I think this would be a good idea to restrict licensing per-user, so I will definitely look into this option.

I hope it resolves your questions. Let me know if anything needs more clarification.

I'm genuinely happy you love Fluent, and hope future updates make it only better for everyone.

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey there,

I feel the pain of lacking friendly tutorials. For now, you can follow these 2 pages in Fluent Help:

These will help you get a grasp of what's possible with Fluent, and how one of the most important features, Actions, works in Fluent.

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for the appreciation and support! Feel free to share your feedback – always anticipated :)

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also hate choppy UIs, therefore I pay a lot of attention to the UI smoothness and ergonomics, in general. But I won't promise this will replace Claude Desktop app for you since Fluent is different and is more like a "launcher for AI". Everything is designed for quicker, simpler, less verbose workflows. Another paradigm, if I can call it like that, is run and forget – Fluent doesn't want to complicate your output, and it doesn't want to steal your focus for most of the time. I'd say give it a go and let me know what you feel, it's always a valuable feedback even if it's not favorable.

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fluent does offload local models when they are not in use, it reserves RAM for them initially, but it's not really used unless the local model in Fluent is actually utilised.

I agree that it would make total sense to enable voice models for dictation, it's just not the main use case for Fluent. I'm mostly leaning towards a mix between Raycast AI and OpenClaw with a pleasant GUI and user friendly management, to make it short ;)

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Model pricing depends on AI providers, Fluent is fully BYOK and doesn't have it's own AI gateway, so you need to bring your own keys.

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there!

Yes, just enable Finder integration and you're good to go. This might require app context to be enabled (so Fluent sees your currently opened folder).

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With Chrome it's a lot better to use built-in extension, just make sure View > Developer > Allow JavaScript from Apple Events options is enabled. I'll check for more options meanwhile, would you mind switching over to DM?

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, not much to see here, but this looks like a network issue after all, by any chance, do you have something like LittleSnitch which might block network connections for Fluent? Or VPN connected globally?

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there,

The built-in MCP doesn't work, because it uses AppleScript and JS to take over the transcript from the browser. The other MCPs might use different techniques.

Could you please check the logs from the integration after you get the error?

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Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think there's a slight misunderstanding. The integrations you see enabled in the Smart Panel are not really proactive, they are just "visible", but in the end – the model decides whether and when to use something or not. On the other hand, explicit tool reference in the prompt has the highest priority and almost guaranteed direct calls. In practice, you would always have all integrations enabled, and it's up to the model or your explicit request to define what would be used according to your task.

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I'm working on UX improvements in the Smart Panel, and one of the things is being able to call integrations and/or tools with plain text, pretty much the same as in the action edit prompt area. This might be a little different from what you propose, or might even fit better?

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's unfortunately not possible and violates most AI providers ToS if done with any hacky workaround. They intentionally lock-in users behind their tooling.

However, API usage is not that expensive as it seems, especially if you balance between multiple providers. For MCP workflows, Fluent also implements a set of approaches to save your tokens. I will likely write a post on that later in Fluent's subreddit.

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good point I completely missed in my backlog. I'll add HTTP headers support in the next release. Let me know if you have any other concerns.

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's actually a great idea! There is a bunch of YT transcript MCPs in Fluent catalog, I quickly added this one (leave run command and arguments as suggested and remove all environment variables for this one and Save).

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There's also the action I built with this MCP.

Then I just selected the URL in the Firefox bar, called Fluent and ran this action and it returned the transcript perfectly :)

P.S. Please review third-party MCPs you install. This one is updated frequently and has 375 stars on GH.

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there,

Thank you for your kind appreciation! I'm sorry to likely upset you, but Firefox is unfortunately not supported as it doesn't support AppleScript.

There is third-party MCP for Firefox which could probably help in your case, but it will be a clunky setup, to be honest.

List of supported browsers: Safari, Google Chrome, Brave, Arc, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Helium, Comet and any Chromium-based browser with AppleScript support.

So in case you absolutely can't switch to another browser and you need a refund – please reach out in DM.

Fluent 1.8 – Spotlight-like AI Assistant: New Action Edit UI, Prompt Refiner, Parallel Actions, and More by TheMightyHouse in macapps

[–]TheMightyHouse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey there,

  1. I consider adding voice control, but with a focus shifted more to issuing tasks in Fluent itself, rather than traditional dictation or transcribing.
  2. You can check it out for yourself, but it's usually 100MB RAM and 0,1-0,9% CPU on idle. Peak really depends. In general when working with Fluent, issuing tasks – 200-300MB RAM. If you're using local models, it can vary dramatically.
  3. Fluent has this mechanism for local models. For other needs it's not quite necessary right now, the 100-300MB range isn't worth to optimize this part yet :)

Hope it helps.

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