Maho vs Chrome with Gemini: agentic-first vs AI-bolted-on
Google ships Gemini inside Chrome. Maho ships an agentic side panel with BYOK. Two AIs, two invocation models, two views of what is happening on your screen.
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LM Studio plus Maho: a fully local AI panel on macOS
A working tutorial. Install LM Studio, load a model, start the OpenAI-compatible server, wire it into Maho, and confirm with a quick round trip that no prompts leave the machine.
Tool calling, without the mess: how Maho ships browser tools
Tool calling is not a feature. It is a contract. This is the long version of how we honor that contract inside Maho’s side panel.
Maho vs Edge with Copilot: the bundle vs the BYOK
Microsoft Edge ships Copilot bundled. Maho ships BYOK. The two architectures answer a different question about who runs your AI.
Spaces in Maho: when tab groups are not enough
Tab groups are fine until your day stops being one shape. Spaces are what you reach for when your work has more than one mode.