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description Off Grid AI Desktop is a private, local AI studio for macOS and Windows - chat, vision, image, and voice, running on your own hardware. Free and open source. No cloud, no account, no API key.
Off Grid AI Desktop - macOS + Windows

A private AI
that runs on your computer.

Chat, vision, image, and voice, all running on your own hardware. No account, no API key, nothing you type ever leaves your computer. Free and open source.

macOS stable 0.0.38: Apple Silicon, signed and notarized. Windows x64 nightly 0.0.39-beta.66: free core app, pre-release, expect rough edges. There is no stable Windows build yet.

15-30 tokens a second on a flagship Mac · 100,000+ downloads · 2,500+ GitHub stars

Off Grid AI Desktop running a private chat on macOS, models listed down the left, a streaming reply in the center.

What you get, free

A full AI studio on your own machine. Everything a cloud chat app does, without the cloud, the account, or the bill.

Chat
Text and vision, streaming, with a reasoning mode. 15-30 tokens a second on a flagship Mac.
Image generation
Text-to-image and image-to-image on your own GPU. Ships Z-Image-Turbo and SDXL-Lightning, with a live per-step preview.
Voice
Speech-to-text with Whisper, text-to-speech with Kokoro, and a hands-free voice mode. All on-device.
Projects
Drop in PDFs, docs, and notes, then chat grounded in them with cited sources.
Artifacts
The model's HTML, React, SVG, and Mermaid render live in a sandboxed canvas next to the chat.
Connectors
Add any MCP server and use it inside chat. A preset catalog is built in.
Any model
A curated catalog plus direct Hugging Face search. Qwen, Gemma, Llama, Mistral, or any GGUF.
Offline by default
No account, no API key, no sign-in. Works in airplane mode, on restricted networks, anywhere.

Off Grid AI Desktop model library on macOS - a catalog of local models with sizes, plus Hugging Face search.

Run any model - a curated catalog plus direct Hugging Face search, all local.

Want new features first on macOS? Get the macOS nightly. On Windows, 0.0.39-beta.66 is the current pre-release. Nightly builds can have rough edges.

Why you can trust it

Your data never leaves your device, by architecture. No cloud inference, no account to create, no server that can leak. Your local database is encrypted at rest, and the whole app is open source under AGPL, so you can read exactly what it does.

100,000+ downloads across the apps, 2,500+ GitHub stars, a 500-strong community.

One local endpoint that speaks OpenAI

Point any OpenAI client at http://127.0.0.1:7878/v1 and it works. No key. Chat, vision, image, audio, and embeddings, all on one local server.

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="http://127.0.0.1:7878/v1", api_key="not-needed")
print(client.chat.completions.create(
    model="local",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
).choices[0].message.content)

Run it headless with --server-only for a homelab box, a server, or wiring local models into your own apps.

The chief of staff you never had

The free app runs models. Pro adds the always-on layer that sees your work, remembers it, reflects it back, and acts with your approval. You forget what you did last Tuesday. Your Mac does not. Off Grid keeps a quiet record of your work you can actually ask, and it hands you what you need before you go looking. Opt-in, with a recording indicator, and nothing leaves the device.

Pro is available on macOS only today. It is not included in the Windows nightly.

Off Grid AI Pro showing Your Day - a journal, to-do list, and timeline of the day, on macOS.

Your Day - the brief a chief of staff would hand you each morning.

It sees
Captures your screen, reads it on-device, and files it into observations and entities. Pixels never leave your disk.
It remembers
Your Day as a journal you can scroll, and Replay, a movie of your day you can scrub frame by frame.
It maps your world
A private CRM that builds itself. The people, projects, and companies across everything you touch, each with a running summary of what is open. You never update it. It updates itself.
It reflects
Where your attention actually went. Mind-share, focus versus context-switching, and how your day and week really broke down.
Meetings
Records and transcribes Google Meet and Zoom locally, then folds the title, summary, and attendees into your timeline.
Dictation
Hold the dictation key, talk, and the text lands at your cursor in any app. Transcribed on-device.
Clipboard
A searchable history of everything you copy, with image and file previews, stored on your disk.
One search
Your screens, meetings, clipboard, and memory in one place. Search your whole work life, readable only by you.
You delegate, it acts
Hand it a task and it understands what you mean. It drafts the reply, files the ticket, lines up the next move. Nothing runs without your approval.

Off Grid AI Pro Reflect view - mind-share, time by app, and focus versus context-switching, on macOS.

Reflect - where your attention actually went, by hour and by app.

Off Grid AI Pro Entities view - the people, projects, and companies you touch, each with a running summary, on macOS.

Entities - the people, projects, and companies you touch, kept current for you.

Off Grid AI Pro is live: ${{ site.data.pricing.lifetime }}, yours forever. The price climbs as we grow - never down - so today's tier is the lowest it will be. One license covers up to {{ site.data.pricing.devices }} devices, on desktop and mobile. Prefer yearly? ${{ site.data.pricing.price }}/{{ site.data.pricing.period }}.

Questions

Is it really free? The full studio is free and open source under AGPL. Pro is the paid layer.

Does it work offline? Yes. All inference is local. Airplane mode, restricted networks, anywhere.

Which Macs? macOS on Apple Silicon, M1 and later. Signed and notarized.

What about Windows? The free core app is available for Windows x64 as a nightly pre-release. The current release is 0.0.39-beta.66. There is no stable Windows build yet, and Pro is not included.

Does it phone home? No cloud inference, no account, no API key. Capture is opt-in, with a visible indicator.

What models can I run? Qwen, Gemma, Llama, Mistral, and any GGUF from Hugging Face.

What does Pro cost? ${{ site.data.pricing.lifetime }} once today, yours forever with no renewal - climbing toward ${{ site.data.pricing.top_lifetime }} as we grow, and the tier you join at is the price you hold. Not ready to commit? Pay ${{ site.data.pricing.price }}/{{ site.data.pricing.period }} yearly instead, climbing toward ${{ site.data.pricing.top_price }}/{{ site.data.pricing.period }}. One license covers {{ site.data.pricing.devices }} devices.