· ai-devtools

Howler will have AI answer your questions, then burn the chat

If you want to ask AI a question and watch the conversation go up in virtual flames when you're done, there's a new Mac app for that.


Howler is an open-source app from a Chinese developer going by Aries Zhou, and it takes incognito mode AI questions to a new level by making them graphically interesting and easy to access right from the desktop of a macOS device. Anyone familiar with the Harry Potter series is likely to know where the name comes from - Howlers are letters that scream in recipients’ faces and then burst into flames, destroying themselves, which is the exact same thing the prompts ostensibly do once a user taps the Escape key.

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