MacPaw releases Eney, an assistant for Mac and iPhone that acts only when you approve

MacPaw, the Ukrainian-founded maker of CleanMyMac and Setapp, released Eney on 15 October 2026. It is an AI assistant for the Mac, with a companion app on the iPhone. The idea is that it keeps an eye on your apps, files, calendar and the state of the machine, notices what needs attention, such as a call about to start or a disk running low, prepares the next step and then asks before doing anything.

Kosovan presents Eney as the next step after the tools MacPaw has made since 2008 to look after the Mac, a careful colleague rather than a chatbot. 9to5Mac's reporter saw a demonstration with MacPaw founder and CEO Oleksandr Kosovan a few days before launch. The project began in 2019 as a way of driving CleanMyMac with plain-language commands and was reworked as large language models and agents took off. The Mac version is on eney.ai and needs macOS 15 or later. A 14-day trial comes with 10,000 AI credits, after which plans run from $14.99 a month for 10,000 credits to $49.99 for 30,000. A Setapp account can be used to sign in, but a membership is not required.

The feature list is wide. A gesture of shaking the cursor over text, or pressing Option and W, calls Eney up in any app, so nothing has to be copied into a chat window. A spelling and wording tool works in Mail, Slack, Notes and the browser. Eney can transcribe calls without a bot joining, then draft notes, action items and a follow-up invite for the user to approve. It also flags low disk space, memory pressure and apps that keep crashing, and comes with ready-made routines such as Morning Brief, Plan My Day and Weekly Review. The tool is built to sit across the user's whole working life: it works with Apple Mail, Calendar and Reminders, plus Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, Notion, Jira and Linear, speaks eight languages and can import ChatGPT archives.

Behind it sits Mnemos, MacPaw's memory layer. It keeps a graph of people, projects, preferences and events, corrects itself when the user corrects it, and holds only Eney's own memory. Not all of its abilities are live yet. Eney is the first product on MacPaw's own AI stack, which the company is developing with Liquid AI on models tuned for Apple hardware. 9to5Mac notes the assistant is not fully on-device, and heavier jobs still go to cloud models.

In its release, MacPaw describes Eney as proactive but never autonomous: it asks before sending a message, changing an event or moving a file, and users decide how much it may do alone. The company also cites its own survey of US Mac users from July and August 2026, in which 81% had used an AI tool in the previous three months but only 39% said AI was built into how they work.

Several of the everyday tools are aimed at saving a trip to another app. Eney can pick up a call summary and turn it into notes and a calendar invite, find a file by description, tidy a cluttered Downloads folder and run its routines on a schedule, so that a morning brief is waiting before the user sits down. In the demonstration it was seen slipping from English into Ukrainian at one point, a reminder that the multilingual side is still being polished.

The launch follows a long public build-up. Eney was first shown at CES 2025, a revamped version reached Setapp in December 2025, and the Liquid AI partnership was announced in August 2026. 9to5Mac suggests deeper links to Setapp apps could come next.