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The State of Local AI · Report 01 · Q4 2026
Few Chickens and Even Fewer Eggs
Very few computers can run a good local AI model, and even fewer apps make it worth the effort. Nine hands-on tests, sourced figures and a claim register show where local AI stands today.
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Meetini Review: Meeting and Interview Assistant for Mac
Meetini review: paid Mac app for live captions, meeting notes and interview prep. The maker says captions run locally; its privacy notice says audio goes to OpenAI.
November 7, 2026
- NewReview
LastBrowser Review: Free AI Browser With a Local Ollama Sidekick
LastBrowser review: a free Windows browser (Linux preview) with a built-in Sidekick AI sidebar that works with local Ollama models. Licence, privacy, risks.
November 6, 2026
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RAMen Review: Local Session Memory for llama.cpp, With a Free Plan
RAMen review: proprietary llama.cpp session memory for Mac, Windows and Linux, with a free plan and a claimed long-chat speedup. Install, pricing, privacy.
November 6, 2026
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Sablate Review: Subtitles and Burn-In for Windows and Mac
Sablate review: subtitles, translation and burn-in for Windows and Mac that, per its maker, run on your own computer. Free tier, Pro $29 once. Not tested.
November 6, 2026
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Weesper Neon Flow Review: Offline Dictation for Mac and Windows
Weesper Neon Flow review: Whisper dictation for Mac and Windows that, per its maker, runs on your PC. 15-day trial, then 5 EUR a month. Not tested.
November 6, 2026
- Apps tracked
- 351
- Languages
- 9
- Apps verified by their makers
- 22
- Articles published
- 937
- Apps tested hands-on
- 9
- AI assistant calls (MCP)
- 2,557
- Ask Hans answers
- 214
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Meetini Review: Meeting and Interview Assistant for Mac
Meetini review: paid Mac app for live captions, meeting notes and interview prep. The maker says captions run locally; its privacy notice says audio goes to OpenAI.
November 7, 2026
- New
Weesper Neon Flow Review: Offline Dictation for Mac and Windows
Weesper Neon Flow review: Whisper dictation for Mac and Windows that, per its maker, runs on your PC. 15-day trial, then 5 EUR a month. Not tested.
November 6, 2026
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Sablate Review: Subtitles and Burn-In for Windows and Mac
Sablate review: subtitles, translation and burn-in for Windows and Mac that, per its maker, run on your own computer. Free tier, Pro $29 once. Not tested.
November 6, 2026
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RAMen Review: Local Session Memory for llama.cpp, With a Free Plan
RAMen review: proprietary llama.cpp session memory for Mac, Windows and Linux, with a free plan and a claimed long-chat speedup. Install, pricing, privacy.
November 6, 2026
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LastBrowser Review: Free AI Browser With a Local Ollama Sidekick
LastBrowser review: a free Windows browser (Linux preview) with a built-in Sidekick AI sidebar that works with local Ollama models. Licence, privacy, risks.
November 6, 2026
Trilium Notes Review: Free Hierarchical Notes With Optional AI
Trilium Notes review: free AGPL-3.0 hierarchical notes for Mac, Windows, Linux and your own server, with optional AI via Ollama, LM Studio or cloud.
November 3, 2026
EverShelf Review: Self-Hosted Pantry Manager with Optional AI
EverShelf review: a free, MIT-licensed pantry manager you host yourself, with barcode scanning, expiry alerts and optional AI via Gemini, OpenAI or Llama.
November 1, 2026
Open Voice OS Review: Open-Source Voice Assistant for Linux and Raspberry Pi
Open Voice OS review: the open-source, Mycroft-descended voice assistant for Linux and Raspberry Pi. What the docs say about speech, LLMs and privacy.
November 1, 2026
Hillnote Review: Local-First Markdown Notes With On-Device AI
Hillnote review: local-first Markdown notes for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android with local AI via Ollama, optional cloud models and sync. Free plan.
November 1, 2026
LLM Vision Review: Camera Analysis for Home Assistant With Vision LLMs
LLM Vision review: a free Home Assistant integration that describes camera images, video and Frigate events with a vision LLM, local or cloud. Apache-2.0.
November 1, 2026
Latest Apps Added
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Meetini
Paid meeting and interview assistant for Apple Silicon Macs that captures live captions and notes without a bot in the call; its privacy notice says live audio goes to OpenAI — Meeting notes & transcription
November 7, 2026
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LastBrowser
Free desktop browser for Windows (Linux preview) with a built-in Sidekick AI sidebar that can use local models through Ollama or your own cloud provider keys — Browser sidebars & AI browsers
November 6, 2026
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RAMen
Proprietary local session-memory layer on top of llama.cpp that saves every chat to disk and, the maker says, speeds up long chats, with an OpenAI-compatible API and a free plan — Inference engines
November 6, 2026
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Weesper Neon Flow
Offline push-to-talk dictation for Mac and Windows that runs Whisper on your computer and types the cleaned-up text into any app — Dictation & voice typing
November 6, 2026
- New
Sablate
Subtitle tool for Windows and Mac that, per its maker, transcribes video with Whisper on your computer, translates it, and burns styled captions into the video — Subtitles & dubbing
November 6, 2026
Trilium Notes
Free, open-source hierarchical note-taking app and personal knowledge base for desktop or a self-hosted server, with optional AI chat through Ollama, LM Studio or cloud providers — Notes & knowledge bases
November 3, 2026
Open Voice OS
Community open-source voice assistant platform for Linux, Raspberry Pi and Docker, with optional local speech engines and an optional LLM fallback — Voice assistants
November 1, 2026
Hillnote
Local-first Markdown notes workspace for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android with on-device AI through Ollama and Apple Intelligence, optional cloud models and sync — Notes & knowledge bases
November 1, 2026
LLM Vision
Home Assistant integration that analyzes camera images, video and Frigate events with a vision LLM: local through Ollama, Open WebUI or LocalAI, or cloud providers — Smart home AI
November 1, 2026
PicoClaw
Open-source personal AI agent from Sipeed written in Go, built for low-cost boards and old phones, with Ollama and vLLM support — Personal assistants
November 1, 2026
Latest Founder/Maker Reviews
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Atlarix
Amariah Abishai, Founder, Norah Labs — Built Atlarix to be an AI coding agent trustworthy with a real codebase: one that plans, edits, runs the project's own tests, and never changes a file until the diff is approved — with Ollama or LM Studio your prompts and code go only to that local model.
November 7, 2026
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Sablate
Furkan Bağcı, developer at FuumiSoft — Sablate exists to do the whole subtitle job on the computer where the footage already is: Whisper transcription, translation, editing and burn-in in one window, with no upload and no per-minute fee.
November 7, 2026
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RAMen
November 6, 2026
- New
GreenCube
Hector Gras, founder — I'm 16, and I started GreenCube because I think AI is meant to be owned, not rented.
November 6, 2026
TecAdRiseBot
Chris, TecAdRise, maker of TecAdRiseBot — We built TecAdRise Bot because we needed a local multi-agent desktop shell on Windows that we could own end to end, without locking the workflow into a hosted chat UI.
October 28, 2026
Lyonesse
Josip Markovic, developer — I built Lyonesse because I wanted meeting notes without a bot joining the call and without my audio going to someone's server.
October 26, 2026
Pajdo: Health & Fitness Buddy
Josip Markovic, developer — I wanted my Apple Watch data explained like a friend would, without sending my health data anywhere.
October 26, 2026
Loci AI
Michael Waldman, Founder & CEO, Loci AI, Inc. — We built Loci because we believe capable AI should be a public good, not a subscription that sends every word to a data center. The biggest surprise of the last year is how far open models have come. On a Mac, Loci now runs models that score above frontier cloud models on independent benchmarks, for free and fully offline. Most of our work goes into making that feel effortless: picking the right model for your hardware, keeping long sessions stable, and letting your phone use your desktop's power. We're particularly excited about our universal harness, which is focused on increasing performance of smaller models. Most importantly, Loci is working on an inference engine, which gives us full control of local execution and will continue to push the frontier of local AI.
October 23, 2026
Obscurify.ai
Tony Davis, founder of Obscurify.ai — Most AI chat services know exactly who you are: your email, your phone number, your card, and every question you have asked. Obscurify.ai started in 2023 as a way to pay for AI with Monero, and grew into a rule we design everything around: we would rather not have data than promise to protect it.
October 23, 2026
MLXHub
Juan Colilla, DreamFoundries — I am a tech enthusiast and an open-weights AI supporter; I think this technology cannot and should not be withheld from people. I have been an iOS engineer since 2018 and knew local inference on iPhones and iPads could offer much more, so I built MLXHub as the best app for running MLX models on Apple devices.
October 19, 2026
Latest Hands-on Tests
Locally Uncensored (LU) on a 24 GB Mac: Chat, Document Chat, Images and a Coding Agent in One App
A first session on an Apple M4 Mac with 24 GB: a considerate setup and a wide feature set, with PDF, Word and Excel files not read.
October 24, 2026
Caelum on an Android Phone: Reads a Parcel Slip, Stumbles on Facts and Logic (Other AIs Slipped on the Logic Too)
The first PromptQuorum hands-on test run on a phone instead of a Mac. A OnePlus 8 Pro with 12 GB, a 1,020 Mo model download and no word on which model it is. The aim was simply to see how the app works and what is possible; setup caused no problems.
October 21, 2026
LTX Desktop on a 24 GB Mac: Stopped at Setup, Below the Vendor's Memory Floor
Hands-on test on a 24 GB Mac. The app launched smoothly, then the setup screen asked for 129.1 GB of model downloads and the tester gave up: 24 GB of memory is not enough for this app, he says.
October 20, 2026
Msty Studio on a 24 GB Mac: It Found My Ollama Models at Once, What It Is For Stayed Unclear to Me
Hands-on test on an M3 Mac with 24 GB. Existing Ollama models appeared without a second download. No image was generated.
October 16, 2026
Unsloth on a 24 GB Mac: Polished App, Out of Memory Before the First Picture
Hands-on test on a 24 GB Mac, aimed at picture generation. Chat worked; picture models were refused for lack of memory, and no picture was made.
October 16, 2026
DiffusionBee on a 24 GB Mac: Generating Worked at Once, Editing Mostly Did Not
Hands-on test on an M3 Mac with 24 GB. Pictures came out in about a minute; targeted edits to an existing picture mostly failed.
October 16, 2026
Draw Things on a 24 GB Mac: Fast When It Works, Blind Until It Does
Hands-on test on a MacBook Pro with M3 Pro. The first prompt returned a gray square. The second model worked.
October 9, 2026
BoBe Alpha on a 24 GB Mac: Easy to Install, Restarted When Deleted
Hands-on test on a MacBook Pro with M3 Pro. The in-app assistant did not name the macOS setting it needs, and the app restarted itself when the tester tried to delete it.
October 9, 2026
Page Assist on a 24 GB Mac: Sidebar Found, Page Not Understood
Hands-on test of the Ollama-based browser extension on an M3 Pro Mac. The toolbar icon opened a full-screen page instead of a sidebar. Once the sidebar was found, it counted words but did not read a Search Console page or act on a page.
October 9, 2026
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