Tomte lives in the top edge of your screen.
Push the pointer up, press a hotkey or drag a file there, and it opens. The rest of the time it draws nothing, takes no space and never steals focus.
Free and open source · Windows 11 22H2 or later
Up there, without any AI
Everything here works with no account and no key.
Shelf
Park files, text and links while you work, then drag them out into any app.
Shortcuts
Tiles for the apps, folders, web pages and scripts you open all day.
Media
Play, pause, skip and seek whatever is playing, in any app.
Scratchpad
One note for lists and loose thoughts, Win+Alt+N away.
Clipboard history
The last 50 bits of text and 50 images. Anything a password manager marks private is never kept.
Search
Apps, files and Windows settings from Win+Alt+Space. Uses Everything when it is running.
Timers
A ring in the pill counts down while you get on with things.
Music gets its own little pill.
When something starts playing, a small pill shows the track. Click it for the controls.
It hides over fullscreen apps, games and the lock screen.
AI, if you want it
Add your own key for Anthropic, Google Gemini or any OpenAI-compatible server, including Ollama on your own PC. Nothing is sent until you send it, and every answer says where it went and what it cost.
Circle anything and ask.
Draw around part of the screen and ask about it. Here it checks a grocery receipt and finds $10 that shouldn't be there.
Win+Alt+C
Hold a key, talk, let go.
The words are typed where you were typing. Speech turns into text on your PC with whisper.cpp, so this part needs no AI at all.
Hold Win+Alt+V
Drop a file on the top edge.
Drag it up and drop it on Summarize, Ask, Tables to CSV or Rename. The result lands on the Shelf as a file you can drag out again.
Or just ask the search box.
Type a question and pick Ask Tomte. Closed an answer by mistake? Win+Alt+Z brings it back without sending it again.
It can also read PDF and Word files, change settings like dark mode or volume (it asks before each one), use MCP servers and Agent Skills, and run jobs on a schedule you confirm.
Your things stay on your PC
No account, no tracking
There is no sign-in, no analytics and no update check. Tomte doesn't phone home.
Stored on your PC
Your shelf, note, clipboard and AI history live in one file in your user folder. API keys go in Windows Credential Manager.
Sent only when you send
An AI request goes straight from your PC to the provider you picked, with only what you chose to include.
Six hotkeys
| Win+Alt+I | The panels |
| Win+Alt+Space | Search |
| Win+Alt+A | The AI box |
| Win+Alt+C | Circle to ask |
| Hold Win+Alt+V | Voice |
| Win+Alt+N | Scratchpad |
All of them can be changed in Settings, and Esc closes whatever is open.
Get Tomte
Windows 11 22H2 or later, on x64.
Free, and staying that way
Tomte is open source under the MIT license. If it saves you time, you can help keep it going.