Scowld - AI Voice Companion

What it does

Scowld is a free, open-source iOS AI companion with an animated 3D avatar that talks, listens, and sees you. Bring your own keys: chat with OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini, transcribe with Whisper or Deepgram, and speak with ElevenLabs or OpenAI voices. Hands-free wake mode (just say her name), optional camera vision, and locally saved chats. No subscriptions, no paywall, no account — your API keys stay in the iOS Keychain on your device. MIT-licensed and open on GitHub.

Scowld is a free, open-source iOS AI voice companion with an animated avatar and bring-your-own-key AI, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech, plus optional vision and saved past chats.

An AI voice companion with an animated character, hands-free wake mode, bring-your-own-key AI providers, ElevenLabs speech, optional vision, and saved past chats. BYOK AI, speech, voice, hands-free wake, camera context, and local conversation history in one iOS app. Speak from the iOS composer using native iOS speech or your configured cloud STT provider. When enabled, Scowld can listen locally for Bella or your custom name to start voice recording. A compact in-app guide explains wake phrases and the eye, hands-free, voice, send, and cancel controls. A VRM character with lip sync, idle animation, and expressive response playback. Enable camera context when you want the AI to respond to…from scowld.xyz

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