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Description

Voice in a Can brings Alexa to your Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro.

The Apple Watch Alexa implementation works standalone, without requiring your phone. Go for a run with your cellular watch and talk to Alexa phone-free.

It also works on the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro and includes support for displaying your shopping lists, controlling your smart home and more.

With Apple Vision Pro you can settle into any real-world space, tuck a virtual Alexa away on a shelf and get on with your work. When you want to use it, just glance at it, tap your fingers and speak. It uses Spacial Audio so the sound will come from where you placed it.

Not all content can be supported, for example audio books, music, podcasts, some flash briefings and announcements/drop-in.

The app costs US $1.99 and Universal Purchase is enabled, meaning that if you purchase on one platform it will be available on all of them.

Developer

Voice in a Can was released by Atadore, a Swiss company based on the shores of lake Geneva, Switzerland, owned by Damian Mehers.

It is based on an implementation of the Alexa Voice Service created from scratch, mainly on Damian’s daily commute (Swiss trains are very good).

Damian blogs at https://damian.fyi.

Mastodon

https://fosstodon.org/@dmehers

Release Date

30 May 2018, updated continuously since then. Version 2.6 released Dec 2023. Version 2.7 with Apple Vision Pro support is approved for the App Store and pending Apple release.