Alt Text Intelligence vs Macchiato

Pick a photo, get editable alt text, and copy or publish it in a few taps. Alt Text Intelligence combines a consented cloud description with a dependable on-device fallback. HOW IT WORKS • Choose, take, paste, or share a photo. • Confirm before a photo is sent for cloud analysis. • Review and edit the description in your own words. • Copy the alt text, share an image with its description embedded, or publish to a connected social account. LOCAL-FIRST FALLBACK When cloud describe is declined, unavailable, or out of daily quota, the app keeps working on device. The local pipeline uses Vision cues such as recognized text, classifications, faces, animals, saliency, and dominant color to compose a factual description. Supported devices can also use the system language model to refine those grounded cues. LENGTH AND PLATFORM GUIDANCE Choose Brief, Standard, or Detailed, then optionally apply a practical destination limit for Bluesky, Mastodon, X, LinkedIn, or Instagram / Threads. A destination can shorten the result but never makes a deliberately brief description longer. The standards report links back to accessibility guidance. WAYS TO DESCRIBE • Use the Alt Text tab for photos, camera captures, or clipboard images. • Share an image from another app and get an editable description. • Use the Photos action extension without leaving Photos. • Run Describe an Image from Shortcuts, Siri, or Spotlight. • Reopen a saved image from History and compose a fresh write-up. PRIVACY • Cloud describe runs only after confirmation and uses an anonymous quota identifier. • Our server does not retain uploaded images. • Paid inference requests are not used to train language models. • On-device describe keeps the photo local. • No account is required. • Optional diagnostic reports stay on the device unless you choose to email one. • No tracking. ACCESSIBILITY • Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, Bold Text, and system accessibility settings are supported. • Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and the system font are available. • Reading spacing, contrast, transparency, motion, and non-color differentiation controls complement system settings. • W3C WAI guidance is cited throughout the app. HISTORY AND EXPORT Every completed write-up saves locally to History. Export saved alt text, length presets, and thumbnails as JSON when you explicitly accept the export notice. Alt Text Intelligence is built by Luke Steuber, Bridge City Lab LLC.

Macchiato is a chat app built from the ground up for talking to your AI agent — not to other people. Personal agents today borrow human messaging apps like Telegram or Discord. But those apps were designed for people talking to people, so an agent's real work — tool calls, file edits, approvals, progress — gets flattened into a wall of text. Macchiato is different: every part of the interface is designed around the way an agent actually works. PAIR YOUR OWN AGENT Scan a QR code to securely link the agent running on your own machine. Macchiato is the front end; your agent stays where you run it. Add more than one and switch between them in a tap. SEE STRUCTURE, NOT A WALL OF TEXT • Tool calls render as clean cards instead of raw logs • File changes show up as readable diffs • Approvals become real buttons you tap to allow or deny — and the history shows exactly what you approved • Replies stream in token-by-token, and you can interrupt any time SAY SOMETHING MID-TASK • Send it straight into the running task — no interruption • Or queue it: it waits in the chat, greyed out, and one tap takes it back • Or stop and take over • Background tasks and pending approvals dock above the composer, always in reach TALK, TYPE, OR SEND FILES • Tap to record a voice message and your agent transcribes it • Attach images, PDFs, and documents • Rich Markdown, code blocks, and tables, rendered natively with selectable text STAY ORGANIZED • Keep many conversations going at once and jump between them instantly • Full-text search across your whole history • Pin, rename, and archive conversations PRIVACY BY DESIGN • Passwordless email sign-in — no password to leak • Optional per-conversation end-to-end encryption: your device and your own agent hold the keys, and our servers only relay the ciphertext • We never sell your messages, use them to target ads, or train models on them Built as a fully native iOS app — system typography, materials, haptics, and automatic light and dark themes — so it feels at home on your iPhone. Note: Macchiato is the client for an AI agent that you run yourself — Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude Code, or Codex. You pair your agent once by scanning a QR code; the app talks to it through our relay.