A simple macOS overlay application for pinning grok.com to a dedicated window and key command option+space.
The easiest approach is to download and execute the DMG installer (by clicking the image below) to place the program into your Applications folder.
WARNING The following DMG launcher was built for macOS Tahoe (26.X, early 2025) for M-series laptops. It will not work for Intel based macOS devices, nor has it been tested on any other macOS versions than Tahoe. Use the python installer for a more reliable experience.
Otherwise, you can install the latest stable release from a Terminal with:
python3 -m pip install macos-grok-overlayOnce you've installed the package, you can enable it to be automatically launched at startup with:
macos-grok-overlay --install-startupYou will get a request like this to enable Accessibility the first time this launches.
The Accessibility access is required for the background task to listen for the Option+Space keyboard command. But please don't just take my word for it, look at the listener code yourself and see. ;)
Within a few seconds of approving Accessibility access, you should see a little icon like this appear along the top of your screen.
And you're done! Now this should launch automatically and constantly run in the background. If you ever decide you do not want it, see the uninstall instructions below.
Once the application is launched, it should immediately open a window dedicated to grok.com. You'll need to log in there, but you should only need to do that once. After installing, pressing Option + Space while the window is open will hide it, and pressing it again at any point will reveal it and pin it as the top-most window overlay on top of other applications. This enables quick and easy access to Grok on macOS.
There is a dropdown menu with basic options that shows when you click the menubar icon. Personally I find that using Option + Space to summon and dismiss the dialogue as needed is the most convenient.
If you decide you want to uninstall the application, you can do that by clicking the option in the menubar dropdown, or from the command line with:
macos-grok-overlay --uninstall-startupThis is a very thin pyobjc application written to contain a web view of the current production Grok website. Most of the logic contained in this small application is for stylistic purposes, making the overlay shaped correctly, resizeable, draggable, and able to be summoned anywhere easily with a single (modifiable) keyboard command. There's also a few steps needed to listen specifically for the Option + Space keyboard command, which requires Accessibility access to macOS.
This was a small fun weekend project, and is not a product of the xAI team nor is it formally affiliated with them. Please file issues and I'll be happy to adjust, but I also highly recommend you look at the source code yourself if you want to change something. It's a small and simple project that fits in less than 10K tokens, Grok (or similar) could easily help you modify it for your own purposes.