Aspen — Own your intelligence
ChatGPT-style AI that runs on your desktop + phone. Free.
Aspen — Own your intelligence launched on June 5, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,808 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
What it does
Open source AI can be hard to set up. Aspen fixes that. Download one app (Mac, Windows, iPhone), open it, and Aspen detects your hardware, recommends a model, and gets you chatting in minutes. No command line, no config. Models run locally on Ollama, but you don't need to know/care about that. You own all your data, but Aspen is way more than a wrapper: built-in tools, live code artifacts, voice chat, file uploads, and an OpenAI-compatible API to plug into Cursor or Zapier. Free forever.
Aspen is a free local AI app for Mac, Windows and iPhone. Run private LLMs on your own hardware, work offline, and use an OpenAI-compatible API.
What's working? What's not? What would make Aspen 10× better for you? Private AI that runs on your machine. No subscriptions. No cloud. No one reading your conversations. No terminal, no configuration. Just download, open, and ask. Replaces $240–$480 a year in ChatGPT & Claude subscriptions. Pay nothing, own it forever. Windows may show a "protected your PC" warning. Click More info → Run anyway . It is safe. Learn why . One command installs everything — Aspen lands in your apps menu, no terminal needed after that. curl -fsSL https://www.runonaspen.com/install.sh | sh The app is free forever on the devices you already own. The Aspen device is a separate, optional machine for running…from runonaspen.com
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