DashVox
Hands-free AI for devs
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Your voice-first AI engineer. Kick off remote coding sessions from CarPlay, Apple Watch, or headphones — and hear the result spoken the moment each one lands.
DashVox is a voice-first AI engineering assistant for when your hands aren't on a keyboard.
Commute, walk, bike, run, or just step out for coffee — DashVox lets you orchestrate real engineering work by voice. Kick off coding sessions on your dev machine, triage bug reports, review repos, draft release notes, or catch up on what happened while you were offline. The work runs remotely; DashVox keeps you in the loop and hands you a clean spoken summary when each task lands.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• Spin up AI coding sessions on any SSH-reachable machine by voice. Your preferred coding agent handles the actual work on the remote end.
• Keep the conversation going while sessions run in the background. Queue follow-ups, pivot to other topics, or just listen — DashVox surfaces each completion automatically when it's ready.
• Run multiple sessions in parallel. The app batches completions cleanly so several finishing at once doesn't overwhelm you.
• Ask general questions with built-in web search for current information.
• Drop into raw shell mode when you need an unwrapped terminal command.
• Every spoken reply is shaped for audio: plain prose, no emojis, no markdown noise, no JSON read aloud.
MEET YOU WHERE YOU ARE
• CarPlay: full chat and session experience on your vehicle's display — hands on the wheel, eyes on the road.
• Apple Watch: spoken updates and quick status checks from your wrist. Take a call, take a walk, take a run — your background agents keep working.
• iPhone + AirPods: voice input and audio-first output for errands, transit, the grocery line, or anywhere you'd rather listen than look.
BRING YOUR OWN INFRASTRUCTURE
• DashVox Cloud works out of the box. Prefer self-hosted? Point the app at your own backend and run the whole stack on your hardware.
• SSH directly to your dev box over Tailscale, VPN, or the public internet. Direct-client mode skips the backend entirely for the lowest possible latency.
• Bring your own agent: Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Codex, or any custom CLI. Agent profiles let you tune flags, session flags, and working directories per machine.
• Password or private-key SSH auth, stored in the iOS keychain.
WHY IT'S DIFFERENT
• Non-blocking by design. Start a task, get the session id back instantly, and keep talking. When the remote agent finishes — minutes or hours later — DashVox tells you.
• Burst-safe. Three sessions landing in five seconds? You get one clean summary, not three interruptions.
• Audio-first. No visual noise. No JSON. No markdown tables read letter-by-letter. Every response is written for ears.
PRIVACY AND CONTROL
• Self-hosted is a first-class mode, not an afterthought. Run your own backend, keep conversations and sessions on your hardware.
• SSH credentials stored in the iOS keychain, never synced to any cloud we control.
• No ads. No tracking. No training on your prompts.
WHO IT'S FOR
• Software engineers who spend time away from a keyboard
• Commuters, walkers, runners, cyclists, and anyone who'd rather listen to work happen than stare at a screen
• Founders and tech leads who want continuity between the office and everywhere else
Ratings & Reviews
- This app has not received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
- Fixed: Apple Watch dropping the phone connection off WiFi. When the Watch had no WiFi of its own, brief Bluetooth hiccups (phone in a pocket or console, a moving car) would instantly show "reopen DashVox to reconnect" — even though the phone was fine. The Watch now waits up to 30 seconds for the link to recover before reporting a problem, so momentary drops no longer interrupt you.
- Clarified when the phone needs to be open: the Watch can relay through your iPhone even while the DashVox app is suspended or backgrounded. You only need to reopen it if you've fully force-quit it (swiped it away in the app switcher).
- Chats with photos open almost instantly and use far less data. Full images now download only when you tap them. Image-heavy chats that used to take seconds are near-instant.
- Smoother typing in chats with images. The keyboard no longer lags or stutters while typing in conversations that have photos in them.
- Fixed open-chat-through-notification bug where chat briefly displaying stale content before catching up. Tapping a notification now opens the up-to-date chat.
- Images sent by the assistant show up on your watch, with a small preview thumbnail in the chat.
- Tap an image to open it full-screen: turn the Digital Crown to zoom in and drag to pan. Zoomed images now stay properly inside the frame.
- Replies now read aloud through your phone and AirPods when a session you dispatched finishes even with your watch and phone pocketed and screens off so long as both apps aren't suspended.
- Opening a chat no longer re-dictates the unseen message you're already looking at.
- Fixed an occasional double read-aloud of the same reply.
- Images load far faster and use a fraction of the data. Full images now download only when you tap them.
- Smoother scrolling back through long conversations.
- Reduced the brief freeze the first time you open the keyboard.
- Fixed a rare glitch where the chat input bar could jump to the middle of the screen instead of staying at the bottom.
The developer, JACK ZANTE HAYS, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- JACK ZANTE HAYS
- Size
- 33.3 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jack Zante Hays
