Is my data private? Does anything leave my computer?
Privacy is the whole point. Your full screen history lives in an encrypted database on your Mac, and that database is never uploaded. Heimdall reads on-screen text through macOS Accessibility APIs, never screenshots or recordings. When you ask it to draft a reply, only the small slice of context needed for that response is sent to a zero-retention model that never stores or trains on it. Your memory itself stays local.
Does Heimdall take screenshots of my screen?
No. Heimdall reads on-screen text through macOS Accessibility APIs, the same structured text a screen reader sees, not screen recordings or images. That text is deduplicated and stored in an encrypted database on your Mac.
Does it work with my Ruune device? Do I need one?
Fully, and no. Heimdall is part of Ruune Desktop, so with a Ruune device your in-person conversations and the memory graph they build feed straight into his context, and a recall can draw on what's on your screen and what your Ruune heard in the room. Without a device, he stands on his own: your screen context plus the meetings the desktop app records.
Can the desktop app take notes too?
Yes. Ruune Desktop is a full note taker on its own: it captures your online meetings on Zoom, Meet, and Teams and writes the transcript, summary, and action items, right alongside everything your Ruune device records in person. Heimdall then recalls across all of it.
How is this different from a meeting note taker?
A note taker only knows what was said in a meeting. Heimdall also knows what's on your screen, and it fuses both. So when you're mid-reply, it can connect the doc you're looking at to the call you had about it last week.
Does dictation clean up what I say?
Yes. Hold Fn, speak, let go. Moments later the text is inserted where your cursor is with the ums, the restarts and the filler words removed, so what lands is what you meant to say, not a transcript of you saying it.
How does translation work?
Select any text, in any app, and press the shortcut for the language you want. Heimdall replaces the selection with the translation in place, and it translates for meaning and register rather than word by word, so the result reads naturally to a native speaker. Each shortcut targets one language: the defaults are ⌃1 for English and ⌃2 for Spanish, and you can add one for Japanese, French, or any of the forty-one.
Which languages does it handle?
Transcription in sixty languages. Summaries, drafts and translations come out in forty-one, Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Vietnamese and Swahili among them.
Can I change the shortcuts?
All of them. Heimdall, Instant Recall, dictation and every translation shortcut are set in Heimdall's settings. Chords, double-taps and holds are all supported, so if you'd rather double-tap Control for Instant Recall, that's yours to set.
What do I need to run it?
The Ruune desktop app on macOS. Heimdall is built in. Download the app, grant Accessibility permission, and use your shortcut in any text field to bring him up.