Updog is an AI voice companion that sits on your screen as a floating overlay. Ask it anything mid-game — it answers out loud, remembers context across sessions, and looks up answers in a built-in game knowledge base so it's fast and accurate.
WHAT IT DOES AT A GLANCE
Ask questions by voice
Answers out loud, mid-fightRemembers your sessions
Picks up where you left offAuto-detects your game
No manual setupBuilt-in game knowledge base
The Codex — fast cached answersQuest and goal tracking
What were you doing again?Not bullet points. Actual explanations of how each feature works and why it matters.
Updog listens for your voice the moment you activate it. You ask, it answers — out loud, through your speakers or headset, while you keep your eyes on the screen. No typing. No alt-tabbing. No wiki rabbit holes.
It uses high-quality speech recognition to catch what you said even when there's game audio in the background, and speaks back with a real, non-robotic voice you can customize. The entire exchange takes a few seconds.
EXAMPLE EXCHANGE
Updog keeps two kinds of memory. Session memory tracks the whole conversation while you're playing — every question, every answer, so you can say "the sword you mentioned earlier" and it knows what you mean.
Persistent memory survives across sessions. Your goals, the things you said out loud that mattered, and context it picked up through the conversation get saved and reloaded the next time you boot up. So when you come back after two days, it remembers: you were heading to the capital to buy the armor set.
You can inspect and edit your memories from the settings panel any time.
MEMORY INSPECTOR
Updog watches your running processes and detects when a supported game is active. The moment it spots your game, it locks context — all answers become scoped to that game, the Codex loads the right data, and it stops answering questions about anything else until you switch.
You don't configure anything. You just launch the game and Updog follows. If you're playing two games in the same session (it happens), it tracks whichever window has focus.
ACTIVE GAME
Detected · Codex loaded · Focus locked
Running in background
Running in background
Screen awareness lets Updog read your screen in real time using computer vision. When it's on, Updog can react to what's actually happening: your current health, what item you're hovering over, the skill tooltip you can't parse, the map location you're in.
This feature is off by default. When it's running, a clear indicator appears so you always know. You can turn it on or off at any point mid-session. Nothing is uploaded anywhere — the analysis runs on demand and isn't stored.
PRIVACY CONTROLS
Updog's quest helper tracks what you're working toward and gives hints on demand — not spoilers. Steps are blurred by default. You reveal one at a time if you're stuck, or ask for the whole path if you'd rather just get through it.
Story companion mode adds a layer on top: Updog will foreshadow what's coming thematically without revealing it outright, keeping the narrative intact. Achievement hunter mode flags missables before you accidentally lock them out.
ACTIVE QUEST
Steps are blurred — reveal one at a time or ask Updog to walk you through it.
The Codex is Updog's built-in AI game knowledge base. When you ask about a boss, a weapon, a mechanic, or a location, Updog checks the Codex first. If the entry exists, you get an instant cached answer — fast, accurate, and already checked for quality.
If the entry doesn't exist yet, Updog generates one on the fly using web search and AI, caches it permanently, and it becomes available to everyone. Premium members are the ones who generate new entries through their own searches — which means the database grows naturally as people use it.
Free users can search and read the Codex without limits. Premium users are the ones who grow it.
CODEX ENTRY
The first major boss of Elden Ring, guarding the approach to Stormveil Castle. Margit is designed to force players to learn the game's rhythm — his long combo strings and delayed attacks punish button-mashing.
Updog starts with a default personality — friendly, knowledgeable, direct. But you can shape it. Personas let you define how Updog sounds, what it emphasizes, and what vibe it brings to the session.
Want a no-nonsense tactical coach who skips the flavor text? A lore enthusiast who puts every answer in story context? A supportive companion who always checks if you want spoilers before giving them? You set it up once and it sticks.
Persona Builder is coming soon — but the base configuration is already live in settings.
EXAMPLE PERSONAS
Non-technical explanation of the moving parts — because you deserve to know what you're running on your PC.
Hold your hotkey and ask your question out loud. Updog records just that clip — it's not listening continuously — and converts your voice to text using ElevenLabs' speech recognition.
Your question, your memory context, and the current game all get sent to Claude (Anthropic's AI). It checks the Codex cache first. If the answer is there, it uses it. If not, it searches the web and builds an answer.
The response comes back as text, gets sent to ElevenLabs for voice synthesis, and plays through your speakers or headset. The whole round trip is a few seconds — fast enough to stay in the moment.
After the conversation, a lighter AI model scans what was said and extracts anything worth remembering — goals you mentioned, facts you shared, where you're heading. This gets saved to your persistent memory for next session.
Hosted version: All of this runs through Updog's infrastructure — you don't need any API keys or accounts with AI providers. Your subscription covers everything.
BYOK version: The same flow, but using API keys you provide directly. You'll need accounts with Anthropic, ElevenLabs, and optionally others depending on which features you want. Free to download, you pay your own API usage.
No fluff. Real answers to real concerns.
Download the BYOK version free, or join the waitlist for the hosted version. Both at updog.bot.