Field notes.

Sourced launcher comparisons, local-AI setup guides, and notes from building Vehla. Every comparison is dated and names where other tools are better.

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Field notes.

Comparisons, setup guides, and the reasoning behind the decisions in the app. We publish the numbers we checked and the date we checked them, and we say where other tools are better.

COMPARISON · FEATURED

Vehla vs Raycast vs SuperCmd: a launcher comparison that admits its own bias.

11 MIN

Three launchers, three business models, three answers to the AI question. Raycast has the deepest extension ecosystem and the best cross-device story. SuperCmd is MIT-licensed and free forever in a way we are not. Here is the full matrix, the three-year cost of each, and the cases where we would not pick Vehla.
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WORKFLOW

A week of ⌥Space: the eleven commands I actually used

Vehla ships 173 commands. A one-week log says eleven of them account for almost everything, half are not AI, and the right move is to hide the rest.

7 MIN

DEEP-DIVE

QuickGlass, Magic Rewrite, and Flow: three ways to never leave the app

Three surfaces that act on text without opening a chat window. They look interchangeable in a feature list and are not. Which to use when, plus the permissions each one needs.

9 MIN

COMPARISON

Vehla vs Alfred: fifteen years of workflows versus a built-in model

Alfred's workflow ecosystem is the deepest automation layer on macOS and nothing we ship replaces it. What Vehla changes is what happens before you need a workflow at all.

9 MIN

PRIVACY

Local AI on your Mac: what actually stays on the device

"Runs locally" is doing a lot of work in most marketing copy, including ours. A precise account of which actions never touch a network, which always do, and why vision is the exception.

10 MIN

DEEP-DIVE

Recall: what a local index is actually good for

The queries that work, the four kinds that don't, why citations are the actual feature, and why enabling more sources usually makes answers worse.

8 MIN

SETUP GUIDE

Six ways to give Vehla a model: catalog, MLX, BYOK, Ollama, LM Studio, Lekh

Every route Vehla can take to a language model, what each one needs from you, and which one to pick for a work laptop that has to pass a privacy review.

12 MIN

NOTES FROM THE BUILD

One app instead of fourteen, and the ways that idea usually fails

Vehla started as a personal tool. Bundling fourteen utilities into one app is the obvious move and also how most bundles get worse than the things they replaced. What we do to avoid that.

8 MIN
HOW WE WRITE THESE

Every comparison names the date we checked each competitor's public pricing and feature list, links to the source, and includes a section on where the other tool is the better choice. If you find something wrong, tell us and we will correct the post and note the change.

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