RigSpark
Know which AI to run on your own computer
RigSpark launched on November 11, 2026 with 77 votes, #141 of 2,155 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
RigSpark checks your RAM, GPU and disk, picks the best local LLM, image, video or voice model your computer can run, then downloads, verifies and runs it. Free and open source.
Sparky checks your RAM, GPU and disk, picks the best model that fits, then downloads, verifies and runs it: chat, images, short video and voice . All on your machine. Images and video run through your own ComfyUI; RigSpark fetches and verifies the weights. Sparky picks the best model your machine can hold, downloads it, checks its SHA-256 and starts it on 127.0.0.1. You chat, generate or talk in the same app. Chat, code and write with the best model your memory holds, on Ollama, llama.cpp, MLX, LM Studio or BitNet. Qwen-Image and Ming design mockups, right in the chat. Thumbnail, wallpaper or square. Spoken replies with Kokoro or Chatterbox, dictation with Whisper. Text is ranked across the…from rigspark.si
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