The questions people actually ask
It keeps a memory of each thing you are working on, and gives it to whichever AI you open. Not a folder of chats but a record: what the project opened with, what you decided along the way, what you already tried and ruled out, where it got to yesterday. Built from your own sentences across every assistant you use, with the number of conversations each line came from printed beside it.
So you stop being the one carrying the context. You press one key and the AI in front of you knows the project, including the parts you worked out three weeks ago in a different assistant you have since stopped paying for.
It also hands over any single conversation, word for word, when that is what you want. It drops the greetings and the ok-thanks, and if the conversation is bigger than the window it is going into it carries what matters and names what it left, in the file, where the next AI reads it. Nothing is ever summarised.
Two kinds, and neither asks you to remember anything.
Claude Code, Cowork, Cursor, Windsurf and VS Code keep their conversations on your Mac, so they are read with nothing to connect and nothing to set up, including everything you did before you installed Sidq.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek live in a browser and keep nothing readable on your computer. So you use them in your own browser, exactly as you do now, already signed in with your passkeys and password manager working, and Sidq reads them as you go. It never asks you to log in to an AI. For what you said in them before today, each one lets you download your history, and Sidq reads the file.
Nothing is uploaded either way. The reading happens between two programs on your own Mac, on a connection that cannot leave it.
No, and this is the part people expect to be worse than it is. Sidq reads what is already on your Mac, so a conversation from two months ago is there the first time you open it. Nothing has to accumulate.
Because a summary is the thing you lose. It keeps the conclusions and throws away the corrections, the ideas you rejected, the way you actually talk. The next AI reads about your work instead of having been there, and you spend the next twenty minutes fixing its assumptions. Sidq hands over the conversation itself, not a description of it.
No. Your conversations are read from your own disk and go to your own clipboard. Nothing is uploaded and it works with the wifi off. An account is needed to set Sidq up, so your history and subscription follow you to a new machine, but your conversations are never part of it. Sidq does read your transcripts in the background, about every ninety seconds, to keep search working, and it skips any conversation that has not changed since it last looked. That index is a file on your Mac. It is never uploaded, and deleting Sidq deletes it.
Nothing. Sidq does not read your screen, take screenshots, record, or watch which app you have open. It reads the conversation files your AIs already write to your Mac, and only when you pick one. An earlier version watched window titles to notice when you drifted off a task; that went with the rest of the planner.
Two things automatically, and one only when you say so. The automatic ones are standing instructions and nothing else: the lines on your "How you work" tab are sentences you have typed to assistants more than once. How you want things done, what stack you are on, the conventions you keep repeating. Those are shared with the people you work with, so every handover any of you makes arrives knowing how the team works and not just how one of you does.
The one you choose is a project: its memory, meaning what it started as and what was decided and what was ruled out, published to the team as a Markdown file you can read in full first. Somebody joining picks up months of decisions without booking time with the person who made them. Nothing goes until you press the button on that project, nothing is on a timer, and no conversation of yours is shared because a folder was set up once.
It works through a folder you already sync, whether that is iCloud Drive, Dropbox or a git repo. Sidq writes its file there and reads the ones your teammates wrote. It still uploads nothing and still opens no connection, which also means it works between people in different countries rather than two laptops on one wifi.
No, and the honest test is that most of it does not call a model at all. Finding what is worth resuming, reading the transcript and handing it over are file operations on your machine. That is why it is instant, why it costs nothing to run, and why it works offline.
Every AI on your Mac read with nothing to connect, search that reaches all the way back including conversations you had before you installed it, and five handovers a week. Word for word, nothing uploaded, no card. Your first five days are unlimited so you can see what it does before the weekly number means anything. What Pro buys is no weekly number at all, plus the part that happens without you: one conversation carried across every model, so whichever assistant you open next already knows where things got to.
No. Sidq is a Mac app and only a Mac app, because everything it does depends on being on the machine your conversations are already stored on. A browser tab cannot read them, so shipping one would mean selling a different and much worse product under the same name.