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Run powerful AI locally. No cloud, no subscriptions.

  1. 1OG

    Your phone has a GPU more powerful than most 2018 laptops. Right now it sits idle while you pay monthly subscriptions to run AI on someone else's server, sending your conversations, your photos, your voice to companies whose privacy policy you've never read. Off Grid is an open-source app that puts that hardware to work. Text generation, image generation, vision AI, voice transcription — all running on your phone, all offline, nothing ever uploaded. That means you can use AI on a flight with no wifi. In a country with internet censorship. In a hospital where cloud services are a compliance…

    Feb 2026 · github.com

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    local.ai104

    Free, local & offline AI with zero technical setup

    2023

  3. 3

    Stop babysitting your AI agents

    20d ago · chat.xpander.ai

  4. 4

    Your offline personal AI assistant

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  5. 5

    Run and train AI models locally on your desktop

    25d ago · unsloth.ai

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    Your AI, fully offline with Zero data collection & 100% free

    May 2026 · lumichats.com

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    AI models that run on an inference cloud optimized for speed

    May 2026 · generalcompute.com

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    Apollo AI280

    Run local models like Llama on iOS

    2025

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    LM Studio209

    Discover, download, and run local LLMs (incl. DeepSeek R1)

    2025

  10. 10

    Build and deploy local AI agents offline

    Oct 2025

  11. 11OA

    Built this after getting tired of fighting local AI setup (CUDA issues, dependencies, API configs). Goal was to make something that just runs locally without all the overhead. Happy to answer questions or get feedback.

    Apr 2026 · store.steampowered.com

  12. 12RA

    Your Mac can run AI that holds its own against cloud models for the everyday stuff: chatting, making images, reading documents, transcribing voice. The hardware got there a while ago. The software to actually use it locally mostly didn't, so I built Off Grid. Download a model and it all runs on your machine. Ask it something on a flight with no wifi. Summarize a confidential document that never leaves your laptop. Run a hundred image generations in a loop and pay nothing, because it's your own GPU doing the work. Swap your paid dictation app for local Whisper. Talk through a coding problem…

    Jun 2026 · github.com

  13. 13OA

    Hey, I built this in a day while at Founders Inc Apple Vision Pro residency. Try it out, let me know what you think.

    2024 · apps.apple.com

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    Local107

    Zero (!) friction local AI for your Mac

    16d ago · basecompute.co

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    AUM99

    Your unlimited offline AI Co-Pilot

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    Automated matchmaking without swiping or apps

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    AGNT.Hub120

    Build always-on AI agents without managing servers

    Jun 2026 · platform.agnthub.ai

  18. 18

    Run open-source AI models offline. Private chat,vision,docs.

    Mar 2026

  19. 19RL

    Hello Hacker News! We're Yangqing, Xiang and JJ from lepton.ai. We are building a platform to run any AI models as easy as writing local code, and to get your favorite models in minutes. It's like container for AI, but without the hassle of actually building a docker image. We built and contributed to some of the world's most popular AI software - PyTorch 1.0, ONNX, Caffe, etcd, Kubernetes, etc. We also managed hundreds of thousands of computers in our previous jobs. And we found that the AI software stack is usually unnecessarily complex - and we want to change that. Imagine if you are a…

    2023 · lepton.ai

  20. 20WA

    Hi HN, I’m building Waycore, an open-source project exploring what a flexible, offline-first field computer should look like for outdoor, survival, and off-grid scenarios. The core goals are adaptability and resilience: modular hardware (external sensor/tool modules) extensible OS with support for external apps (guidelines in progress) no required internet connection — maps, models, and knowledge work offline optional LTE/Wi-Fi when available and explicitly enabled A major focus is on-device agentic AI, not just chat or image recognition. The AI is intended to: read live sensor…

    Dec 2025

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    An on-device AI Agent that runs on your phone, open & secure

    Aug 2026 · openminis.app

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    Quietly59

    Offline AI IDE & local Chat

    May 2026 · quietlycode.org

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    Run AI directly on your PC — no cloud, no setup

    May 2026 · store.steampowered.com

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