Hooke · open source
Parallel researchers for scientific data.
Stack open-source scientific models across long-horizon tasks, on your Mac and in the cloud at once.Open-source models, stacked on your Mac and in the cloud. For educators, researchers and explorers.
Free, for Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later.
Run a whole lab in parallel.
Researchers fan out across every specimen in your dataset at once, stacking open-source models on your Mac and in the cloud, and keep going on tasks that take hours.
Every model's answer, on the same specimen.
Results line up layer on layer, each named with the model and settings that made it, so anyone can check and repeat them.
Meet your staff
The open-source models science runs on, one click away.
Segmentation, tracking, classification and Fiji, beside the best cloud models. Switch them on, stack them, and ask about any spot.
Behind every name are people who spent years teaching a model to see one thing well. Hooke brings their work a click from your microscope, and names it on every result it helps make.
Open by design
Bring Hooke to the agent you already use.
Hooke's open-source scientific tools run from Claude and ChatGPT as well as from the Mac app, so your researchers work in the harness you prefer.
Add your own capability. Everyone gets it.
Wrap a model, an algorithm or a Fiji function as one catalog folder, and the community gets it as a catalog update, with no new app. Start from a BioImage Model Zoo or Hugging Face link, a Cellpose model you trained, or have an AI assistant draft its adapter, tried in a sandbox before you use it.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- HookeUI on your Mac
Hookeone harness for scientific models- Hugging Face
- BioImage Model Zoo
- Fiji
- ＋ Your own model
In 1665, Robert Hooke drew a slice of cork and called its little boxes cells.
He published his drawings, so anyone with a lens could look for themselves. We build Hooke in the open for the same reason.
This is a plant stem, today. Cellpose-SAM outlined all 1,523 of its cells in about 20 seconds on a Mac, and the app measured every one. Point at a cell to see what it found.
1,523 cells. Point at one.
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Free, and yours to change
HookeUI’s own code will be Apache 2.0, with a sign-off on every contribution. The licence is being finalised for the first release.
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Results anyone can repeat
Every result keeps the model, version and settings that made it. Share a picture and it names them, so anyone can turn on the same ones and look again.
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Made by the people who use it
Add a model, an example or a fix. Share it as a file, or publish it to the reviewed catalog for everyone. The forum opens with the first release.
Free · open source · for Macs with Apple silicon
Come and look.
Hooke is a signed Mac app. Install it with Finder; no terminal or developer tools.
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Download
Open the disk image.
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Drag to Applications
Then open HookeUI there.
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First launch
It prepares its Python and packages, about 350 MB, step by step on screen.
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Open the example
A real microscope image, its bright regions found and measured on your Mac.
The example and the local models need no key. Chat, voice and naming use a cloud provider, with your own key. Installation details and current limits are on the download page. The source code is published on GitHub with the first public release.