HC HiveCompute
Now available — Beta

Your Mac earns
while you sleep.

HiveCompute runs quietly in your menu bar. When your screen locks, it transcribes audio in 60-second fragments using your GPU — and pays you for each one.

Download for Mac The button always uses HiveCompute's website download path. If beta access is not enabled for your account yet, use the CLI developer path below.
Apple Silicon (M1 or later) macOS 13 Ventura or later Internet (one-time model download)
What you'll see
◎ Working ◎
◎ Working
Pending payout: $2.43
Shards: 127
Pause
Open Dashboard…
Quit HiveCompute
Lives in your menu bar. Invisible when idle. Click to see earnings or pause anytime.
Setup

Three steps, then done.

1
Download the Mac app

Download HiveCompute.dmg from this website, then drag HiveCompute to your Applications folder.

2
Open the app and let it connect

On first launch HiveCompute registers this Mac automatically and starts in the menu bar. Private deployments can still ask for an invitation code if they keep invite-only enrollment enabled.

3
Go about your day

When your screen locks and your Mac is on AC power, HiveCompute works in the background. Earnings accumulate in the menu bar while you sleep.

Beta note — Gatekeeper warning on first open.
We're not yet code-signed with Apple. On first launch, macOS will say it can't verify the app. To open it: right-click HiveCompute → Open → Open. You only need to do this once. Code signing is coming before the public release.
Privacy

You process fragments, not recordings.

Each job is sliced into 60-second fragments before dispatch. Your Mac never receives a full recording — only a short clip with no metadata about the sender. Audio is processed in memory and discarded. Nothing is written to disk.

How sharding keeps audio private →
For developers

Prefer the terminal?

Same worker, same protocol — installed into a Python venv instead of an .app bundle.

One-line install

curl -fsSL https://hivecompute.fly.dev/install.sh | sh
Inspect script

Checks macOS 13+, installs Python 3.12 via Homebrew if needed, creates ~/.hive-compute/venv, and self-registers this Mac. Invite-only deployments can still pass HIVE_ENROLLMENT_TOKEN.

Useful commands

~/.hive-compute/venv/bin/hive status
~/.hive-compute/venv/bin/hive doctor
~/.hive-compute/venv/bin/hive logs
~/.hive-compute/venv/bin/hive start --no-idle-check

doctor checks config, Keychain, LaunchAgent wiring, and coordinator reachability. --no-idle-check is useful for testing.