About Nock

Nock is built around a simple idea: help should meet you where you are working.

Your document can stay open. Your browser can stay in view. Your coding agents can keep working. Hold a shortcut, say what you need, and Nock brings the conversation to you—in the notch on Mac, or a small top bar on Windows. It opens when you need more room and gets out of the way when you return to your work.

That is the thread connecting Nock’s features: stay with the thought, while Nock helps with the next step.

Start with what is in front of you

You might be writing a reply, looking at an unfamiliar error, or trying to explain an idea before you lose it. Dictate into the app you are already using. Highlight a passage and ask for a rewrite. Circle the part of the screen you mean and talk about it.

When the task needs action, Nock can work with connected apps, operate your computer, or use its own browser. You can ask it to prepare something for review, carry out a specific step, or explain what it sees. Those are different requests, and you choose how much access to give it.

Start with Dictation, Selected text, Pointing, or Computer use.

Your voice, with your choice of AI

The voice interface and the model behind it are separate choices. Nock can recognize your speech and speak replies on your computer, while your chosen AI handles the conversation.

Use Nock’s included AI, bring a supported provider key, or connect your ChatGPT plan through Codex. With Codex connected as Nock’s brain, you still talk through Nock: the notch, voice, context, and supported Nock tools remain part of the experience. For broader actions, eligible requests can hand off to Nock’s full agent. This is distinct from asking a separate Codex coding chat to work on a project.

See Bring your own AI, On-device voice, and Nock Own.

Keep your agents within reach

One project might have Claude Code in a terminal, Codex in another window, and a Nock worker building the next change. Nock brings supported chats into the side agent bar so you can see what is working, open the conversation, and find what needs you.

The Chat Manager makes that coordination conversational. Ask which chat is waiting, send a follow-up to the right agent, or open its reply. You can keep each agent’s own conversation and account while bringing the coordination closer to your work.

Nock also has a project engine behind the small interface. V3Code Terminal supplies local code indexing, language tools, file edits, commands, and background workers. A compact voice companion can still do substantial project work; you open the task or chat when you want to inspect the details.

See Chat Manager, Coding agents, and Code intelligence.

Work across people and computers

Team lets you connect teammates, link your other computers, and choose which chats can receive handoffs. You can send a handoff message to a selected shared chat on another computer without carrying it between tools by hand.

You choose the destinations. Incoming teammate requests addressed to a shared coding chat wait for review unless you enable automatic delivery for that chat. Ordinary Team conversations are separate from forwarding work into an agent. Sharing a chat does not publish its existing transcript, and delivering a message does not approve the recipient agent’s actions.

For work that belongs away from your desktop, NockBot gives you a cloud conversation and workspace. Address a bot by name, send it a handoff, or continue the cloud conversation from a browser. Cloud bots are Beta; they are separate from your local workers and Team connections.

See Team, Shared chats, NockBot, and Cloud bots.

Find your people on Nock Social

Nock Social is the community side: a public feed, friends, groups, profiles, and private messages. Say “Open Nock Social” to open social.heynock.com in Nock’s browser, then log in or create a Social account on the page. You can also use the website from another browser or your phone.

Social is not the Team inbox. Use Social to meet and talk with people in the community; use Team to connect people, computers, and selected agents for work. Signing in to Nock does not silently sign you into Social, and opening Social does not upload your Nock chats or project files.

Start with Nock Social, Friends and messages, or Team messaging.

Make something you can keep using

An idea can become a website, a project change, a diagram on the board, or a small tool that lives in the notch. Nock’s Widget builder and Glass Canvas give the conversation somewhere useful to land. Background work can continue while you ask the next question.

The result still matters more than the status message: open what Nock made, review it, and ask for the next change.

See Widget builder, Glass Canvas, and Background tasks.

Keep the work yours

Local speech, local history, and local indexing let your computer do more of the work. AI requests still send relevant context to the model you choose; connected apps, Team, and cloud bots have their own data paths. You can require dictation audio to stay on this computer and choose separate settings for actions and sharing.

Nock’s purpose is to give you more freedom over your screen and your attention. Start with one useful moment—dictating a sentence, answering an agent, or moving an idea forward—and build from there.

Continue with Quickstart for Mac, Quickstart for Windows, How Nock works, or Privacy and data.