GoKawiilAI startup Manus has released its answer to OpenClaw and Perplexity’s Personal Computer. The similarly dubbed “My Computer” system runs on your Mac or PC, turning your machine into a personal AI agent.
Manus originally started as an independent AI firm before being acquired by Meta at the end of last year. (Meta also recently acquired another OpenClaw-adjacent project: MoltBook, the social media site for AI.)
‘My Computer’ runs on your Mac
Now the company is out with a desktop app that lets Manus AI “manage your local files, execute commands, and interact directly with your workspace to automate any workflow.”
Meet My Computer, the core capability of the new Manus Desktop application. It brings Manus out of the cloud and onto your computer, allowing it to work directly with your local files, tools, and applications. Through the Manus Desktop app, Manus executes command line instructions (CLI) in your computer’s terminal. This allows it to read, analyze, and edit local files, as well as launch and control your local applications.
As an example of what the system can do, Manus describes two scenarios involving tedious busy work:
Consider a florist with thousands of unsorted photos on her computer: bouquets, potted plants, customer shots and more all in a single disorganized folder. She can simply tell Manus to “organize my flower shop photos.” Manus then scans the files, identifies the content of each image, creates categorized subfolders, and sorts every photo accordingly. In minutes, a clean, structured asset library emerges from the chaos. Or imagine an accountant who needs to rename hundreds of invoices to a standard format. A task that would take an entire afternoon by hand, Manus can complete in minutes with a few terminal commands.
Manus has released its new desktop app for Apple Silicon-based Macs. You can learn much more about the system here.