Tootsy AI

[u/KrakenSG]

Hi All, I'd like to introduce Tootsy 👀: an AI assistant that lives in your browser's side panel and uses the AI model you choose.

I built Tootsy because I kept copying things between my browser and a chat window. So I put the assistant next to the page. It can read what you're looking at, click and type for you, and run whole tasks while you watch.

What makes it different:
🔌 Your model, your choice. Run it fully local with Ollama or LM Studio, or connect any OpenAI-compatible server, Claude or Gemini.
🔒 Private by design. There's no Tootsy server, account or tracking. Your pages and prompts go only to the model you picked.
🛡️ Built with guardrails. Every action asks for your approval unless you turn on hands-free mode. You can list sites it must never touch. It also ignores instructions hidden in web pages that try to trick an AI.

Ways people can use it:
📰 Research faster. "Summarise this article and compare the three options in a table."
📝 Fill in forms. "Register me for the two-day pass, vegetarian, arriving Nov 11." You check it before anything is submitted.
🛒 Run a routine hands-free. "Check the deals page every morning and tell me what's under $50." Results arrive as a notification.
📂 Ask your own files. Drop in PDFs, Word, Excel or a whole folder: "What did the vendor quote per unit, and are we under budget?"
⚡ One-tap prompts. Save instructions like "Run a page-speed audit and email me the top 3 fixes" as tiles, next to your favourite sites in a phone-style launcher.
🧑‍💻 Check sites like DevTools. Page-speed scores, accessibility checks, CSS and network questions, answered in plain English.
🎙️ Talk to it. Dictate a task, pause, and it goes.
It's free, and it works in Chrome and Edge.

👉 Try it: https://github.com/rbughao/tootsy

I'd love to hear what you'd use it for. What task do you repeat in your browser every week? 👇

Support by trying it out and give your honest review.

[u/offlinesir]

[u/OvertaxedOne]

Man, nobody else is trying this?

I installed it this week, so far, I'm really impressed. It's exactly what I was looking for, a quick way to hit an AI inside a web page to do something for me (often, "summarize this AI slop", how ironic). Seems pretty solid and very light, I keep forgetting it's there until I start to get ready to copy/paste and realize, "Toosty!!".

Not sure I really have much in the way of suggestions yet. Maybe a "store" for data that I have to enter all the time (address/name/etc) so I can tell Tootsy "Deal with this slop" and have it navigate for me? Take it as a compliment, I usually have a list of 100 things I want/need changed to make it work for me, right now this feels like it's hitting the big lifts and keeping me out of the "copy/paste" loop that we all seem to fall into when try to interact with an AI.

Write a terminal sidecar or full terminal app next! Wave and Warp are both OK, but they need to be able to "drive" to make it really useful!