Hola 👋!
I have been using AI assistants for a long time, for everyday and work-related tasks. For me, having a tireless companion is helpful. From writing a social media post to finding the best hotel, they can complete any task.
I shared them with my teammates and beloved ones and they loved it. They started calling them by their names, and texting them every day.
Managing them, however, was not the same experience. Broken updates, security issues, and endless configuration options. Operating an assistant is not easy: you have to find the right balance between capabilities, so it's actually useful, and permissions, so it stays secure.
That's why we built HolaClaw, a macOS desktop application (Windows and Linux coming soon!) to install OpenClaw with one click. No setup, no terminal. The app I always wanted for my assistants.
What it actually does
HolaClaw runs on your Mac. You download the app, open it, and within a few minutes you have an assistant ready to talk to. The app does the heavy lifting in the background: it sets up an isolated virtual machine, installs OpenClaw inside it, and wires everything together so the first thing you see is a chat window, not a setup checklist.
Once it's running, your assistant is something you can:
- Talk to from your Mac, in a dedicated chat window that feels like a native app rather than a browser tab.
- Reach from Telegram, by linking a channel to the same assistant you use at your desk. More platforms are coming soon.
- Customize end-to-end — give it a name, a persona, a system prompt, a default tone, and a set of skills it can use.
From this point, you can grow your assistant. Shape its personality, give it more skills, and connect third-party services.
Focus on building your assistant, and not on operating it. An assistant you enjoy talking to, with the knowledge it needs to be useful.
Secure by default, stable by design
Your assistant lives in an isolated virtual machine on your own system, configured with secure defaults from the first run. It's kept apart from the rest of your Mac, so you get the value of an assistant without handing your context to a setup you don't control or worrying about what it can touch.
It's also stable by design. We test and validate every OpenClaw release before it reaches you, so you don't wake up to a broken assistant after an update you didn't ask for.
Why HolaClaw?
If any of these sound like you, HolaClaw will probably feel useful right away:
- You're already working with OpenClaw and want a setup stable enough to become part of your daily flow.
- You're curious to try it, but you don't want to install something that can mess with your system.
- You want your assistant, not a generic chatbot.
- You don't want to deal with infinite configuration options — just a curated set that does most of the work for you.
If that sounds like you, you're exactly who we built HolaClaw for.
What's next?
This release is the foundation. Over the next few months we'll be shipping more skills, more channels, newer versions, etc. We'll also keep tightening the core experience: fewer rough edges, safer defaults, and a setup you can trust to keep working.
If you're already using HolaClaw, thank you for putting it through real life. If you're about to try it, the download page has the latest build. In both cases, our Discord is where the most interesting conversations are happening right now.
Welcome! We are glad you are here.