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Dev tools · October 26, 2026

Hob

Open-source, on device alternative to Claude and ChatGPT

Hob launched on October 26, 2026 with 102 votes, #238 of 4,962 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Free, private AI that runs on your computer. Hob finds the right model and handles setup for you. Open source and works offline.

AI runs on your computer. Work with local files, even offline. Hob picks the best frontier open-weight model that fits your computer and sets everything up for you. Give Hob the files you want to work with. Get results you can open, edit, and share. Revenue increased each month, with September contributing the largest share of the quarter. Connect your email and calendar. Add connections for your favorite apps. Your chats stay on your computer. Share the folders you choose, and undo file changes when you need to. Hob can then see the files in Sales in this chat, and asks before changing any. We tried every local AI app we could find. Most are a chat window: at best they paste a plain text…from hob.chat

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