Heard is a macOS voice layer for your agentic workflows. It connects to Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor and turns their output into intelligent summaries you can hear. Full commentary when your eyes are elsewhere, or silence until something errors or needs a decision. With agents run in parallel, Heard summarizes at the project level, so you hear where the work stands, not five terminals talking over each other. Pair your phone and it comes with you. Open source, free for personal use.
About Heard
What is Heard?
Heard is a macOS voice layer designed to bring ambient intelligence to your terminal. It connects directly to coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, monitors their event streams, and transforms what matters into concise, natural spoken summaries. Instead of watching a terminal window or wading through raw logs, you get intelligent narration — full commentary when your eyes are elsewhere, silence until something errors or needs a decision, and project-level summaries when multiple agents run in parallel. Heard is open source and free for personal use.
Who it's for
- Solo developers who work with AI coding agents and want to stay in the flow without constantly staring at a terminal.
- Remote or on-the-go coders who need to step away from the desk — for a walk, a drive, or the kitchen — and still follow what their agents are doing.
- Team leads or multi-agent wranglers running several parallel sessions (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and need a single, coherent audio feed instead of five terminals talking over each other.
Key features
Listening modes
Heard offers three distinct modes switchable from the menu bar. Co-pilot provides short hooks and signposts while you work — enough to keep pace without narrating every keystroke. Companion delivers fuller briefings for times your eyes are off the screen. Focus stays quiet until something needs you: an approval, a blocker, a failure, or a decision waiting to be made.
Mobile pairing (Heard Power)
Pair your phone with a one-time scannable code, and live narration follows you anywhere — even with the screen locked. You can listen, approve, and reply to your agents by holding or tapping to talk. On-Mac speech recognition keeps developer vocabulary intact, and scoped pairing with automatic disarm ensures safety.
