Use Actual on your Mac from ChatGPT or Claude

• MacPartly

  Through the app's window, with macOS accessibility: BCD reads what Actual shows and presses buttons, types and picks menus. How far it goes depends on the app. macOS asks once to allow it.

• WindowsNo

  BCD controls app windows only on a Mac.

• LinuxNo

  BCD controls app windows only on a Mac.

Version

26.11.0

Installs (last 365 days)

957 · #871 among Homebrew apps

Needs

macOS 12 or later

Homepage

actualbudget.org

Install

brew install --cask actual

“Open Actual and tell me what is on its screen”
“Install Actual with Homebrew”
“Quit Actual and update it to the latest version”

Can ChatGPT control Actual?
On a Mac with BCD, yes, through the app's window: ChatGPT can open Actual, read the buttons and text it shows, press buttons, type and pick menu items. How far that goes depends on how much of its window Actual exposes to macOS accessibility.

Does this work on Windows?
No. BCD controls app windows only on a Mac. On Windows and Linux it works with files and commands.

Is it safe?
A new computer starts read-only. Controlling the screen and apps is turned on per computer, and macOS asks once before BCD may control apps.

Try it on your computer

BCD connects ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps to your own Mac, Windows or Linux computer. One computer is free, with 20,000 tool calls a month and no card.