Selectric is a private AI search app for macOS covering email, docs and Slack. Free plan available; Team plan is $15/user per month. See features and pros.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Selectric is an AI-powered personal search tool for macOS that finds information across email, documents and messages. It is built for fast-moving teams that produce many written artifacts and struggle to locate the current version of a report, plan or client detail. Instead of pinging colleagues or hunting through an intranet, a user types a query and gets results from every connected account.
The product is made by Prophesy Inc. Selectric says it indexes and stores data on the user's own computer, so searches run locally, and that it does not use customer data to train AI models. It offers a free version and a paid Team plan, and a Windows version is listed as coming in 2025. This review relies on the company's own website.
Setup follows three steps on the site: download and install the package, sign in to a frequently used account, then press Cmd+Shift+K and type a search. The shortcut works from inside any app on the computer, and the company states that no configuration is needed. Initial indexing takes about 15 minutes for most accounts, and searches are instant once indexing finishes.
Each user gets a personal index built only from data that person can access, which the company says avoids information leakage through LLM jailbreaks or prompting. The index uses less than 250MB of storage for 10,000 emails and documents. Selectric keeps watching mail, shared drives and Slack channels so new material is indexed as it appears. Cloud AI models, if used for summaries, discard data immediately.
The core feature is unified search across email, documents and messages. Results can include sources, such as payment confirmation emails with invoice amounts, or planning presentations shared in Slack and stored in Google Drive. Summaries are generated from results, using local AI models on the free plan and more powerful models on the Team plan.
Selectric can also draft email replies grounded in the user's own data. The site shows it checking mail, calendar and documents before proposing meeting times or supplying a detail from a stored file. Smart Actions, which cover automatic email responses and calendar management, are part of the Team plan, alongside SSO support, premium support and custom service integrations.
Selectric is an AI-powered personal search tool for macOS that finds information across email, documents and messages. It runs from a keyboard shortcut inside any app and can also draft email replies grounded in the user's own data.
Selectric has a Free plan at $0 and a Team plan at $15 per user per month, billed quarterly. The Team plan adds stronger summaries, Smart Actions, premium support, SSO support and custom integrations.
Yes, there is a forever free version for macOS. It supports unlimited connected accounts and summaries from local AI models. People who sign up for the Windows launch are offered three months of free Premium.
The company says it indexes and stores all data on the user's computer and that searches happen locally. If cloud AI models are used for summaries, data is not stored and is discarded immediately. Selectric also says it does not train AI models on user data.
It supports Gmail, Google Drive and Google Calendar, Outlook, OneDrive and Microsoft Calendar, Slack, Teams, Dropbox and Box. Users can request additional services by emailing contact@selectric.io.
Not yet. The current download is for macOS 14 or later, with Apple Silicon recommended. The site lists a Windows version as coming in 2025.
Yes. Depending on how corporate accounts are configured, an IT department may need to grant Selectric access. The company says it will work with IT teams on onboarding and offers premium support options for enterprise deployments.
The company describes setup as three steps and says it takes about 5 minutes. Initial indexing takes roughly 15 minutes for most accounts, after which searches are instant.