Foundations
Platform Overview
AskUI capabilities, features, and comparison with other AI automation solutions
Platform Capabilities
AskUI is an enterprise-ready platform that enables AI agents to control desktop and mobile devices through visual understanding. Unlike browser-only or chat-based solutions, AskUI provides comprehensive automation across all platforms and applications.
Key Differentiators
- Universal Platform Support: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS
- Enterprise-Ready: On-premise deployment, security features, and corporate proxy support
- True Background Automation: Agents can work without taking over your mouse and keyboard
- Visual Intelligence: No dependency on DOM or application internals
- Flexible Integration: Python and TypeScript SDKs with CI/CD support
Features and Comparison
Key features of AskUI include:
- Support for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android and iOS device automation, including Citrix environments
- Support for single-step commands as well as agentic instructions
- In-background automation on Windows machines (agent can create a second session; you do not have to watch it take over mouse and keyboard)
- Flexible model use (hot swap of models) and infrastructure for reteaching of models (available on-premise)
- Secure deployment of agents in enterprise environments
Feature | AskUI Vision Agent | Computer Use by Anthropic | Operator by OpenAI | Browser Use | Custom (VLM + PyAutoGUI + Playwright) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Browser Use | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
DOM Support | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Windows Use | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
Linux Use | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
MacOS Use | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
Android Use | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
iOS Use | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
In-Background Automation | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Change Detection (Automatic waits) | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Multi-Screen Support | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Multi-Device Support | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Intent-based Prompting | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
Single-step Commands | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Human-in-the-Loop | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
Prompting Interface | Python, TypeScript | Chat | Chat | Python | Custom |
Enterprise Installer | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
On-Premise Availability | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |