Both read your screen as text, take notes without a bot and brief you before calls. Littlebird stores your context in its cloud and connects to hundreds of tools; Smart Jelly keeps your memory on your Mac and closes what you owe on evidence.
An always-on AI assistant that remembers your work and can act across meetings, messages, docs and apps. Built for anyone at work, from founders and sales to students; with team plans.
Smart Jelly goes furtherA memory for your working life: formed on your Mac, kept on your Mac, handed back the moment you need it.
| Smart Jelly | Littlebird | |
|---|---|---|
| Where memory lives | On your Mac, encrypted | Cloud: AWS US-East, encrypted |
| How it reads your work | The text of the apps you choose | The text of the active window, every few seconds; plus optional account integrations |
| What it builds | People and what each is to you, projects, your days as episodes | Chat over your context, projects, notes, routines; memory structure not documented |
| What you owe people | One list across every app. Each closes itself when the reply, file or meeting happens, with the proof attached | Ask it for open commitments; action items in meeting notes; no tracking that closes them found |
| During the call | Recall from your memory, answers from general knowledge or the web, suggestions for your own choices, ⌥Space for help now | Ask Hover about the live transcript; answers when asked |
| Before the call | From your whole history with that person: chats, mail and past calls | Automatic meeting prep from your integrations, screen context and the web |
| Acting in other tools | Drafts; you send | Hundreds of integrations; pushes tasks to Linear, Asana, ClickUp |
| Seeing what was sent | “What left your Mac”: every request and its exact text, on your Mac for 7 days | Not documented; models used not disclosed |
| Your own keys | Optional | Not offered |
| Platforms | Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14+) | Mac (macOS 13+), Windows, iPhone and Android for chat |
A tick marks the side that does more on that row. Where Littlebird’s documentation says nothing, we say “not documented” rather than guess.
Littlebird stores your context in its cloud (AWS, US-East). Smart Jelly keeps your memory in an encrypted database on your Mac; what’s sent to answer a question is never stored by Smart Jelly or used to train any model.
Yes. Quiet cards appear when something you know is relevant or a question is asked; ⌥Space gives the most useful thing to say right now.
Smart Jelly doesn’t connect to accounts. It reads the apps you choose on screen, drafts for you, and gives other AI tools its memory over MCP.
Compiled from Littlebird’s publicly documented behaviour, 5 October 2026. These products ship fast — check their own site before you decide. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.