I'm having a hard time sticking with Alice. I've watched videos, tried to configure things, and... I've hit a wall almost all the time.

So far, it has only served me for two things:

1. Translating texts by clicking two keys on my keyboard.
2. Writing a 2000-word blog by chatting with Alice, although I can achieve this without Alice in any AI chat.

First: it worked perfectly on MAC.

Pros:

✅ Clean and beautiful UI.
✅ On MAC, it feels like a mature product.

Cons:

❌ If you don't know how code works, you're lost, like me. You'll have a local AI without needing a browser... and not much else.

❌ I can't find anything that Raycast doesn't do much more easily in my daily uses. Snippets for Zoom, Google Meets, Todoist, Fantastical, Capacities... I can achieve all of these very easily in Raycast. So, why do I need Alice? Moreover, it will cost me AI credits and a big headache to set up those Snippets.

❌The use of credits, in the end, is a monthly expense. Today, chatting with Alice, I spent about $3 in 1 hour. I was experimenting with texts, images, etc., as if I were writing a real blog, nothing too heavy. If I multiply those $3 by 30, it will be almost $100/month to maintain Alice... and that's without having really taken advantage of it because I can't even set up an automatic Zoom with Pabbly via Webhook.

❌ There is no synchronization between devices. In my case, I bought TIER 3 to have Alice on my Mac Studio and my MacBook Air. My surprise was great when I installed it on the second device and realized that the snippet I had on the Mac Studio would have to be configured from scratch on my other device again. The founder was kind and explained that it's a privacy issue and that they are working on it. He also said there was a way to export the entire app library on one device and import it on the other... unfortunately, it exceeds my knowledge.

I compare this app with Raycast because they are actually quite similar. But while I can easily do things with Raycast with my limited tech knowledge, with Alice it's incredibly difficult to understand what I'm doing.

I think the potential is very high. In fact, if they managed to be a Raycast alternative, I would be very interested in maintaining this LTD. But... Raycast costs $8/month. In less than a week, I will have spent that on API usage costs with Alice.

I don't know, maybe I'm not understanding Alice at all. Not just in terms of configuring it, but in terms of the product and its capabilities.

I hate giving it 3 tacos, I really wanted to love this.