A layer that sees your screen, and helps.
GlassLayer floats above any app, understands what’s on screen, and lets you ask about it, hear it, caption it, or act on it: accessibility and answers above the apps that never shipped them.
app.example.com
contract.pdf
3 people
notes.txt
Reading · contract.pdf
Clause 4.2 auto-renews this yearly unless you cancel 30 days before the term ends.
What it solves.
Context trapped on screen
A dense contract, a chart, an error you can’t parse. Ask GlassLayer about what you’re looking at and get a plain answer.
Apps without accessibility controls
Native software that never added reading, contrast, scaling, or voice. The layer adds them from outside.
PDFs & video with no support
Scanned PDFs screen readers can’t touch and calls with no captions get read aloud and captioned anyway.
Help that doesn’t follow you
Your reading, voice, and insight tools come with you across every app and window, not just the browser.
WebAble, but for everything else.
GlassLayer takes the same control layer the extension applies to web pages and lifts it above the entire desktop. Step through to see it in three modes.
Homepage / Hero
Card component
Project Brief: Q3 Launch
This document outlines the scope, milestones, and success criteria for the Q3 product launch.
Engineering, design, and marketing will coordinate via weekly syncs beginning the first week of July.
All deliverables must pass QA review before the hard cutoff on August 14th.
GlassLayer · summoned
Hold ⌘⇧Space anywhere, any app
How it works.
- 1
You summon the overlay
GlassLayer floats above your desktop on demand, on top of whatever app you’re in.
- 2
It reads the visible surface
Only where you grant permission, it understands the text, layout, and media currently on screen.
- 3
You ask, or you choose a tool
Ask a question about what’s in front of you, or pick read aloud, caption, raise contrast, voice-click, or summarize.
- 4
Insight and action, above the app
It answers in context and layers actions on top, without the app needing to support any of it.
- 5
You stay in control
Nothing runs without you, and you decide what each surface is allowed to see.
Capabilities
- Screen-aware Q&A
- Surface reading & narration
- Live captioning
- On-screen summaries
- Voice actions
- Cross-app overlay concept
Where it helps.
An early concept, honestly labeled.
GlassLayer is a prototype. It doesn’t claim full OS or whole-app control. It reads, answers, and acts on visible surfaces only where you grant permission, nothing is captured by default, and every action stays under your control.
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