Local-first tools
Local-first software is designed to keep your data on your own device. This page lists 10 local-first tools; the latest additions are Hex, OpenMausBot and Orkas. Open any project to see what it lets you do, what its creator says you need and its original source.
Projects to explore
- starnet Watch your AI agents work inside a living pixel-art space station
A local-first desktop app that gives each of your AI agents a character at its own workstation in a pixel-art space station, with the station's rooms and activity reflecting what the agents are actually doing.
- Hex Dictate by voice and paste text into any app
Hold a shortcut, speak, and have your words typed into whatever app you are using.
- VoiceStudio Clone your voice and dub a video, all on your own computer
VoiceStudio is a desktop app for generating speech in a chosen voice without sending anything to a company: give it a clean reference recording, type your text, and it generates the audio, with separate workspaces for dubbing video and for designing a brand-new voice from a written description instead of a sample.
- Lap A private photo manager that keeps every picture on your own disk
Lap is an open-source, offline-first photo manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux: a privacy-focused alternative to cloud photo services with no forced upload and no subscription.
- OpenMausBot Chat with a team of AI bots that use computers
Chat with a roster of AI bots that each have their own model, computer and apps, and approve risky actions.
- Orkas Hand goals to a desktop team of AI agents
Give Orkas a goal and its AI agents plan, research, write and build the work on your computer.
- Octop Run a private AI assistant with a team of specialized agents for your household
Octop is a self-hosted AI assistant that runs entirely on your own machine and gives each person in a household or small team their own set of specialized agents to switch between — one for weekly reports, one for scheduling, and so on — while keeping every conversation and credential local.
- TencentDB-Agent-Memory Share reusable memory across agents
Share conversation memories, skills, documents, and code maps with AI agents.
- PI-Desktop Give your coding agent a desktop of its own, with your model
A desktop workspace built specifically for AI coding agents, rather than an agent bolted into an editor or a terminal.
- XERJ Let your coding assistant search your files instead of reading them all
Let an AI coding assistant search your code, docs, logs and PDFs locally for the exact passage it needs.
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