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Nabu for Mac

Desktop AI agent — real work on your files, with every step visible and one-click undo.

$199.00
In English
Version 1.7.4

Nabu overview

Nabu is a desktop AI agent that does real work on your computer instead of just chatting about it. It reads and organizes files, extracts data from PDFs and scans, works with Word and Excel documents, researches on the live web with sources, and connects to Google Drive, Notion, Linear, Asana, and Jira.

What makes it different is trust: a live log shows every action as it happens, risky steps stop at an approval gate, and Nabu snapshots before each change — so anything it does can be undone in one click.

It is model-agnostic: bring your own API key (OpenAI, Claude, or any OpenAI-compatible provider), subscribe to have twelve models included, or download a local model from the built-in Model Hub and work fully offline. The whole app is free; paid plans add voice control and included models. Universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel, signed and notarized by Apple.

What's new in version 1.7.4

Two places people got stuck: a multi-step playbook that asked you to press Continue at every step, and a sign-in form with no way out of any mistake.

Multi-step playbooks
  • A multi-step playbook can run itself. "Run all" on the start form sends every step in order — the six-step playbook that used to cost twelve clicks now costs one. Each step gets its own ten-minute ceiling rather than the whole run sharing one, because a local model on a laptop takes minutes per step and a single deadline would cut it off constantly. The run keeps going when you switch to another chat, and it survives quitting Nabu: the report says it was interrupted instead of pretending it finished. At the end you get one message with what happened and a single button that takes the whole run back. "Step by step" is still there, and still what a click on Start does.
  • Run all stays out of two places on purpose. It is not offered in a chat where you have switched permission prompts off — dropped questions and dropped clicks should not multiply. And plan mode is off while a run goes, because a plan waiting for your approval looks exactly like a finished step to anything reading the result.
Sign-in
  • Signing in has a way out of every mistake. The email never arrived, the ten minutes ran out, you mistyped the address — each of those used to be a dead end you left by quitting Nabu. There is now Send a new code, with a thirty-second pause after each send, and Use a different email, which takes you back with the address still in the field to fix. Enter works on both steps.
  • And a failure is a sentence now. A wrong code was reported as `Error invoking remote method 'account:verify-code': Error: billing /auth/verify-code 401`. It now says the code did not work, that it may be mistyped or expired, and to send a new one — with the raw line kept under "Show details" for a bug report. Verify also waits for all six digits before sending anything: an incomplete code used to burn one of the five tries the server allows.
  • The sign-in screen says the account is made right there. It read "Sign in to continue", which is fine if you have an account and misleading if you do not — and since the site stopped asking people to register before downloading, this screen is where most accounts now start.

Nabu for Mac

$199.00
In English
Version 1.7.4
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