Pull Up is the research producer for live shows. Ask for the study, the clip or the thread out loud and it finds the best source in seconds, while you keep talking. Then it waits for you.
A broadcast gallery runs on three words. The director sees the next shot in Preview, viewers see Program, and nothing moves from one to the other until someone presses Take. Pull Up works the same way, from one Mac.
Say “pull up the study on cold plunges”, or press ⌘⇧P. Speech becomes text on your Mac, and nothing said outside a live, unpaused session is kept or judged.
Within seconds the overlay lifts the best web result, video and Reddit thread. Only you see them, and the overlay never takes focus from your recorder.
Press Take and the card goes to the Stage, the page OBS shows over your show. It hides on its own after 12 seconds, or the moment you take it off.
Pull Up’s Live screen, running on sample cards. The overlay and this screen show the same Preview and Program.
All of it, listed. Your audio isn’t on the list: it never leaves your Mac and is never recorded. There are no analytics and no telemetry in the app.
| What | Goes to | When |
|---|---|---|
| The words you asked for | Your search provider, Serper or Brave, with your own key | Each time you pull something up, and the searches Research ahead prepares if you turn it on |
| Pictures on cards | The sites that host them | When a card with a picture shows, on your screen and on the Stage |
| Link previews | The sites you linked | At Go Live, for links you pasted into Research ahead. Public addresses only |
| Your outline | Only if you bring in a Google Doc as your outline | |
| Speech models | Hugging Face | Once, at first run, checked against hashes built into the app |
| Update checks | GitHub | Between shows. Nothing about you or your shows is sent |
| Crash reports | Our crash service, Sentry | Only after you say yes. App version, macOS, and where the code stopped. Never an error message, audio, transcript, search, link or setting |
| The conversation | A local model in Ollama, if you run one | During the show. Ollama runs on your Mac; Strict Local refuses any other address |
Your voice and your guests’ voices. Transcripts. Recordings, because there aren’t any. Anything said while you’re paused or not live, which isn’t even turned into text.
The requests you got cards for, and the title and link of each card you used. Then it’s erased for real: deleted rows are overwritten. A request Pull Up decided wasn’t one leaves nothing.
Most shows travel as 9:16 clips cut from the 16:9 feed. A lower third on the left loses its title and its credit in every one. The Clip-safe card sits inside the centre column of the frame and above the captions Shorts and Reels draw, so the clip keeps all of it.
Pull Up isn’t another studio to move into. It floats beside the one you use, hears you through your own mic, and talks to OBS through a page it serves on your Mac.
Nothing. The beta is free. When Pull Up reaches 1.0 it will be $10 a month or $100 a year.
Apple silicon Macs on macOS 14.2 or later. Intel Macs and Windows aren’t supported yet.
No. Every card that reaches your viewers got there because you pressed Take, clicked, or pressed S. Research ahead prepares cards in the background, but it never changes the overlay or the Stage.
No. Your voice is turned into text on your Mac as you talk, by whisper.cpp, and the audio is never written to disk or sent anywhere. Pull Up keeps no recording and no transcript. The session log keeps the requests you got cards for and the cards you used, and erases them after 30 days.
If you allow it. On macOS 14.2 or later Pull Up can hear the sound your call app plays (Zoom, or the browser running Riverside or StreamYard), only while you’re live and not paused. macOS asks for permission once, from the Setup screen, never at Go Live or mid-show.
A search key from serper.dev (2,500 free searches) or Brave Search, pasted in Settings. It’s kept in your Mac’s Keychain. Without a key you get sample cards, so you can try everything first.
Only to put cards on stream: the Stage is a page OBS shows as a Browser Source, and StreamYard can take OBS in as a camera. Without OBS, Pull Up still finds the cards for you to see and open, and keeps them for your show notes.
No. The overlay never takes the keyboard from the app in front, and the shortcuts work while Riverside or OBS has focus. Press ⌘⇧P to pull up the last line without saying anything.
End the session and Recap lists every lookup in order. Copy show notes, export Markdown or chapters, and export each card that was on stream as a transparent picture for the edit.
It’s optional. With Ollama installed, a model on your Mac helps decide what counts as a request and follows the conversation for Research ahead. Without it, Pull Up’s built-in rules decide.
Invites go out in small groups, so we can help each show set up and fix what it runs into. Tell us your recorder and we’ll start with the setups that match.
For Apple silicon Macs on macOS 14.2 or later. Free during the beta, then $10 a month or $100 a year at 1.0.