The AI that actually uses your PC
Most assistants tell you how to do it. Helix opens the app, runs the command, reads the page and comes back with the answer. On your own machine, with your own accounts, while you watch every step.
Free · Windows 10/11 · 132 MB · Android app and Chrome extension included
- Searched your filestax-summary-2026.pdf · Downloads · Windows Search index0.2s
- Read the PDF3 pages · totals found on page 21.1s
- Wrote the totals into a sheetTotals.xlsx · B2:D6 · read back and checked1.4s
- Drafted the emailTo Priya · saved in Drafts · nothing sent0.9s
An example run.
Works with the apps you already use
Fast where it matters
Every number here comes from Helix's own timing log on a real Windows 11 machine. The full before-and-after is on the benchmarks page.
An agent that reaches for the cheapest way to do a thing
A command, not a click
"How much disk is left?" is one PowerShell line, not a trip through Settings and a screenshot of it.
A browser tab of its own
Web work happens in an off-screen Chrome tab, by element rather than by pixel. Your mouse stays yours.
Learns your routines
Do something twice and Helix does it directly next time, in about a second, through the same checks.
Proof on every step
"Window Notepad is open", "report.txt is on disk". When Helix can check its work, the card shows how.
It asks before it commits
Reading is free. Sending, buying, deleting and powering off wait for your yes. Ctrl+Shift+K stops it instantly.
Your phone drives it
Send a task from anywhere and watch it happen, or take the screen yourself, tap to click and drag to scroll.
Think, pick a surface, act, check
Understand
It restates the goal, writes down what it is assuming, and asks if something is genuinely ambiguous.
Pick the surface
A Google API, the browser tab, the files tool, one command, and only then the mouse.
Act until surprised
It sends every step it already knows in one go and only stops to think when something unexpected happens.
Check the result
Typing is read back, windows confirmed, files found on disk. "Done" means it looked.
A coding agent that proves its work
Point it at a project and describe the change. It plans, edits, checks each file as it writes it, runs your tests, and reviews its own diff before it says done.
- Answers stream in as they're written
- Every edit checked the moment it lands
- Review and undo any change, hunk by hunk
Good to know
Is Helix free?
Yes. Install it and sign in with Google. It runs on Google's Gemini models through your account; you can add your own keys for stronger models if you want.
Does it take over my computer?
Only when a task needs the desktop, and you see a glowing frame while it does. Web, file and Google work happens in the background while you keep working. Ctrl+Shift+K stops everything instantly.
What won't it do?
It won't solve CAPTCHAs, get round bot detection, or type your passwords. When a person is needed, it hands the moment to you and carries on afterwards.
How does it update?
By itself, in the background. Most updates are a small patch rather than the full installer, it restarts in seconds, and it tells you what changed.
Is there a web version?
Yes. The same Helix answers, explains and creates in your browser, with no install. Your Google sign-in works for both.
Hand it the busywork.
Install Helix, tell it what you need, and watch it happen.