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Gleanary is a knowledge library for your Mac that you run from a chat.

These docs are for people using Gleanary on a Mac. If you want to change the app’s code, read Build from source instead.

How Gleanary works

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You save things by talking to Gleanary. Paste a link into chat, and Gleanary saves the page, fills in its details, writes a summary and files it in your library. You can also ask questions, compare sources and have Gleanary write documents from what you saved.

Behind the chat are five agents. Each one has a job:

Agent What it does
@assistant Answers questions and passes work to the others.
@librarian Saves sources and notes, and files them.
@researcher Writes summaries and comparisons from your sources.
@curator Finds related items and proposes links between them.
@writer Writes finished documents in your writing style.

You don’t have to name an agent. Without a mention, the assistant takes the request.

Changes that touch many items, such as new titles, filings or links, wait for you. Gleanary shows what it wants to change, and nothing changes until you apply it. See Review changes.

Before you install

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  • You need macOS 26 or later.
  • You can browse, search and edit your library without any AI.
  • Chat, summaries, automatic filing and finding people and organizations need an AI provider. You can use Apple Intelligence on your Mac, a ChatGPT subscription, or your own API key for OpenAI, Claude, Gemini or OpenRouter.

Get started

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  1. Download the latest release from Gleanary’s releases on GitHub, and move Gleanary to your Applications folder.
  2. Open Gleanary. When your library is empty, it offers Starter categories. Pick a set that fits your work, such as Essentials, Software engineering or Writing. You can change them later.
  3. Open Settings › AI and choose a Provider. See Models and privacy to decide which one.
  4. Paste a link into chat and send it.
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