How it feels · 01 / 04
Ask from anywhere
The hotkey works over any application. No window, no tab, no waiting for a browser to start — just the question, and the answer.
Oriel · assisted browsing
A browser that helps, when you ask.
Your browser, with Apollo in it — help for the moments you want it and out of the way otherwise. CtrlK inside the browser, CtrlShiftSpace from anywhere on your desktop. It runs on your machine, and it goes nowhere without you.
What Apollo does
Ask first. Tabs later.
One hotkey over any application and an answer without a window opening. When something does need the web, Apollo uses the browser you already have — no API key, no extra account, no waiting.
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Answers from anywhere
CtrlShiftSpace puts a bar over whatever you are doing — a game, a spreadsheet, an empty desktop. Type, read, dismiss. Oriel itself opens only if you ask it to.
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One field for everything
CtrlK is an address, a search, @ your tabs, # your history and ? a question, all in the place the new tab used to be.
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It reads what you are reading
Ask about the page in front of you, or everything you have open, and Apollo reads it then and there instead of guessing. Ask it to show you and the passages light up on the page.
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Your documents, without the retyping
A PDF or a spreadsheet in a tab is something it can answer from. It never copies a figure out by eye — it points at the cells and uses a calculator, so the number you get is the number in the file.
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Quick answers, with the receipts
A fact or a how-to is checked against two pages before you get a sentence back, sources attached, usually in two to five seconds. Where a service can answer exactly — the weather — it asks the service instead of reading search results about it.
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It works the page, when you ask
Refuse a cookie banner, sort a list by price, mark a mailbox read, add the cheapest one in stock to the basket. Apollo uses the page's own buttons, one step at a time, and stops to ask before anything that spends money or cannot be undone.
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Settings, by asking
"Stop saving passwords", "block pop-ups", "dark mode". You get a card showing exactly which settings would change and what they are now — nothing moves until you press Apply, and Undo puts them back. Say "apply" in the chat and it presses it for you.
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Journeys, flights and places
Ask how far Brno is and you get the route drawn, with the distance, the time and the turns — by car, bike or foot. Ask about flights and you get the day's fares, cheapest first. They are cards you can change: another day, direct only, the other way round.
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Your inbox, read and not touched
Tell it once which email you use and it remembers. "Any new emails?" answers from your own signed-in mailbox — who wrote, what about, when. Reading only: it never opens, sends or deletes anything, and it never types a password.
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Some answers are a picture
A crafting recipe, a wiring diagram, a size chart. Apollo photographs that part of the page it read and puts it under the sentence, because reading it out would be worse than showing it.
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Busy, quietly
Look-ups happen in hidden tabs that never touch your tab strip, and they keep going while the window is minimised. Quit, and everything Apollo started shuts down with it.
Where it stops
There is a fashion for browsers that go off and do your shopping. Oriel is not one. This is *assisted* browsing: *you* browse, and Apollo is there for the parts around the edges — the question you would have opened five tabs for, the paragraph you cannot find, the invoice you cannot be bothered to add up. It does *nothing* on its own initiative.
No background crawling, no surprises when you wake the machine. When you do ask it to act on a page, anything that spends money, sends a message or deletes something stops and asks you first, in plain words.
That is the line today, and it moves with Apollo — into your voice, your desktop, your own automations — without bending: it acts when you asked, on what you pointed at, and tells you before anything you cannot undo.
Privacy
Private because of where it runs, not because we promise.
Apollo is a program on your computer. On the free plan there is no inference server to trust, because there is no inference server: the models are files in your profile.
1account
your licence, and the link between your devices. It signs you in; it does not watch you.
0bytes
of telemetry, studies or sponsored anything. Compiled out, not toggled off.
1machine
where your questions, pages and documents live: yours.
Searches are just browsing
When Apollo searches, it opens a search engine in a hidden tab like you would. No API, no key, no third party keeping a list of your questions.
Where you are stays yours
For weather and "near me", Oriel asks your own device and turns the fix into a city with a table it ships with. Nothing is sent anywhere to work out where you are.
Linking is yours to switch on
Nothing syncs until you link a second device. When you do, what moves between your desktop and your phone moves encrypted, between your own devices — readable by them and by nothing in between, us included.
Untrusted text stays untrusted
Pages and search results are read in isolation, so a website telling the assistant what to do is what it is: text on a page, not an instruction.
The road
This is the first chapter.
Apollo starts in the browser because that is where the questions are. It does not stop there.
Now
In the browser
- Answers from anywhere, over any app
- The page, your tabs, your history
- PDFs and spreadsheets, done properly
- Highlights, in place, across tabs
- Quick checked answers, and deep research when you ask for it
- Jobs on the page: banners, lists, baskets, mailboxes
- Settings changed by asking, with Apply and Undo
- Journeys, flights and places, as cards you can change
- Your inbox, read and never touched
- A picture of the page when the answer is one
- 27 languages, routed
every plan
Next
Voice, plugins, automations
- Talk to it the hotkey, held — ask out loud, hear it back
- Oriel on your phone the same browser, the same Apollo, linked to your desktop — start on one, carry on on the other
- Your apps as tools Tidal first, more every release — "play the album I had on yesterday"
- Plugins teach Apollo a site, a service, a tool of yours
- Automations "every morning, tell me what changed on these three pages"
plugins and automations: Plus and Business
Later
Your whole desktop
- Apollo across the machine files, apps, the terminal — the way a coding agent lives in a repo, self-contained
- It learns how you work the local models pick up your habits and their own past answers, receipts included, so the next ask is shorter — and the learning never leaves the machine
- The same rules acts when asked, on what you pointed at, confirms anything you cannot undo
Plus and Business
Can I run it?
Apollo runs on your machine. Let us look at it.
A quick look from inside this page — the kind a website is allowed: your system, your cores, your graphics card by name. It runs here and stays here; nothing about your machine is sent anywhere.
What Apollo needs
Quick answersthe small model, on the CPUany 64-bit Windows PC · 8 GB of memory · about 2 GB free while it runs
The bigger modelpage reading, documents, researcha graphics card with 6 GB or more (GeForce RTX or GTX 16, Radeon RX 6000 up, Intel Arc) · or Apple silicon, later
Diskthe models, onceabout 5 GB · downloaded at install, never again
Without a cardstill Apolloquick answers, the page, your tabs and documents all work · research and highlights lean on the bigger model, and on Plus you can point that at one you run or rent instead
Reads what the browser already tells any page. Nothing is sent.
Pricing
Free. Then your own models.
Oriel is paid for by the people who use it — no advertising, nothing sold on the side. The free plan is the whole browser with the built-in models running on your own machine, and it asks you for nothing, not even an account. Paying starts where a bigger model does.
Free
no accountThe whole browser, and the models that come with it.
€0/ forever
- The whole browser — no ads, no telemetry
- Built-in local models, on your hardware
- Quick answers, the page, your tabs, highlights
- Settings by asking, journeys, flights, your inbox
- Tasks done on the page — cookie banners, forms, sorting, your mailbox
- No account, no trial clock
Plus
any model you likePoint Apollo at a bigger brain — one you run, rent or already pay for.
€7/ month
- Everything in Free
- Connect any model — a runtime on your machine, a server in the next room, an hour of rented GPU, a provider you already have
- Documents and spreadsheets, done properly
- Deep research when you ask for it
- Choose per task which model answers
- Your phone, linked to your desktop planned
- Plugins and automations planned
- Apollo on the desktop — files, apps, the terminal later
Business
Your models, your network, your rules.
€18/ seat / month
- Everything in Plus, for every seat
- One server, the whole office — the big models run on hardware you own, and nothing leaves the network
- Central deployment, locked settings, cloud models off by policy
- A shared plugin library for your team planned
- An export of what Apollo did, per machine
- Invoicing, and a person to email
Free needs no account and does not expire; what supports it is the documentation, not an inbox. Plus and Business are a licence for the software — whatever answers you is a model you chose and paid for directly, so nothing you ask passes through us either way. Prices include VAT.
Questions
Fair questions.
01Does anything I type leave my computer?
On the free plan, no: the models are files in your profile, and the only traffic is the browsing you asked for — a search Apollo runs goes out as an ordinary page request. On Plus it is your decision: point it at a runtime on your own machine and nothing leaves; point it at a service and your prompts go to the one you chose, not to us. On Business the models run on your company's own hardware.
02Will it click things for me?
Only when you ask, and only on the page you asked about. Anything that spends money, sends a message or destroys something is described and confirmed before it happens — and you can set it to confirm every action, not just the risky ones.
03Can it change my browser settings?
When you ask it to. Say "stop saving passwords" and you get a card listing each setting, what it is now and what it would become; it changes nothing until you press Apply, and Undo puts it back. Settings your workplace has locked are shown as locked rather than quietly skipped.
04Does it read my email?
Only when you ask about your inbox, and only the list: who wrote, what about, when. It uses the mailbox you are already signed in to, opens nothing, marks nothing, sends nothing, and never types a password — if you are signed out it says so and leaves you to it. What an email says is treated as text to show you, never as an instruction to follow.
05Is this Firefox?
It is built on Firefox, so the web works the way you expect and your extensions keep working. Apollo, the command bar and the layout are ours; the engine is the one with twenty years of standards work in it.
06What is "Apollo on the desktop"?
The same assistant, outside the browser: files, apps and the terminal, self-contained on your machine, the way a coding agent lives in a repository. Same rules — it acts when asked, on what you pointed at, and confirms anything you cannot undo. It is later, and it is Plus and Business.
07Is there a phone version?
Coming, and not a cut-down one: the same browser and the same Apollo, with every feature, on your phone. Link it to your desktop and the two behave as one — a question you started at your desk is there on the train. One licence covers both.
08What happens when I close the window?
Oriel stays ready, so the hotkey still answers instantly. Quit it properly and everything it started — the model servers included — shuts down with it.
The waitlist
Be first through the door.
One email when Oriel is ready, and the plan you asked about held for you. Nothing else, ever.