Your Own AI

What is Your Own AI and what is it for?

Your Own AI is a free, open-source desktop app that runs AI models on a person's own computer rather than on a company's servers. It exists so that a user's conversations, memories, documents and the signed records of an AI's work stay on the machine they own, with only an optional paid path to online models.

Your Own AI is a free, open-source desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux that runs AI models on the user's own computer. It is built by the Flowsta project and released under the AGPL. Instead of sending conversations to a company's servers it downloads open models — GGUF files — from a curated catalogue that checks them against the machine's memory and graphics hardware, then keeps the chats, memories and uploads local, usable without an account or an internet connection.

Inside the app, each AI is a character with its own personality, portrait, knowledge and memory. Users author their own or start from built-in personalities, and can share one as a signed single-file pack. The memory system records what an AI has learned about its user, traces each fact back to the conversation it came from, and lets the user read, edit or forget it. Auto routing decides, question by question, whether a local model or an optional online model should answer.

One concrete use is working with documents: a user can attach a contract or a scanned page, ask questions in plain language, then check each answer claim by claim against the wording of the source. Conversations, project sessions and API requests are written into encrypted, tamper-evident records built on Holochain and kept on the device, and any conversation can be exported as a signed receipt others can verify. Downloads are at yourownai.net/download and documentation at docs.yourownai.net.

From 3 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.