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AI · October 23, 2026

Gerty

Private ChatGPT alternative that sets itself up on your Mac

Gerty launched on October 23, 2026 with 72 votes, #355 of 3,588 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Gerty is a private AI assistant that runs entirely on your Mac. It measures your Mac, picks the best open models for each job (chat, writing, code, understanding and making pictures), downloads them and sets them up as one assistant. No terminal, no setup. It works with your documents, mail and calendar, you can ask it out loud, and it shows you every change before it makes it. No account, no cloud, works offline. CHF 49 once for 3 Macs, 7-day free trial.

Gerty runs AI on your Mac, not in the cloud: chat, your documents, mail, calendar and voice, offline and without an account. A private ChatGPT alternative, CHF 49 once.

A private AI assistant that lives inside your Mac. It hears you, reads your mail, calendar and files, puts them together and acts in your apps. Not one word leaves the machine. For Macs with Apple silicon on macOS 26 or later. One licence, 3 Macs. free AI models are out there on the internet. Many of them can run right on your computer, without the cloud. But … of them would run well on your Mac. Finding which, and getting them running, means terminals, file formats and a lot of jargon. models, the best for each job: chatting, writing, code, understanding pictures and making them. Gerty picks them for your Mac. Ask a typical assistant anything and your words, files and voice travel to a…from gerty.ch

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