MacPaw’s aiming to out-Siri Siri with third-party-enabled Eney macOS assistant
MacPaw’s newly-previewed Eney gives me strong Siri vibes. Here’s Michael Burkhardt at 9to5Mac on its capabilities:
In simple terms, Eney feels like magic. You’ll be able to talk to Eney, ask it to do a task for you, and it’ll just do it. MacPaw is in a unique position to develop this tool, since they’ve already established great relationships with many Mac app developers through Setapp.
Eney will have many capabilities, but some of the top ones include:
- Sending emails for you
- Converting a file format
- Uninstalling apps
- Writing notes
- Cleaning your Mac for you
- Quickly trimming videos
- Downloading videos for you
- Helping you sort through unread emails
- Extracting audio from a video
- And more!
With third-party integrations and background processes, it sounds really good. But it’ll be coming to market in the tailwind of an Apple Intelligence-enhanced Siri with personal context and that can take action for the user enabled by the App Intents framework (think Shortcuts actions).
I’m sure MacPaw is all too aware of Apple’s first-party advantage looming over them, and yet they’re undeterred. Maybe the stilted launch of Apple Intelligence and its lukewarm reception have given them confidence that there will be plenty of space for another on-device agent to tackle computery tasks.
I think competition from Eney will be good for Siri, even if Siri never thinks of Eney at all.