What is Your Own AI?
Your Own AI is a free desktop app that runs AI models privately on your machine. Your conversations, AIs, and memories are stored on your device, written into signed records and encrypted with a key only you hold. With offline models, nothing you type ever leaves your computer.
Online frontier models are available as an option - a paid plan adds them - but they are never required, and everything local stays free.
The shape of the app
- Chat is the center. You talk to your AIs - characters you author, each with its own personality, portrait, memory, and knowledge. You start with three, set up in the welcome.
- Models are what your AIs think with. Offline models run on your hardware; online models run through Flowsta's relay with your identity stripped. Routing picks the right one per question, by rules you can read.
- Projects turn a conversation into a workbench: open a folder and your AI reads files, makes edits, and runs commands - always with your permission.
- Add-ons are the fifth place in the menu: characters, skills and tools for your AIs, and components for this computer - including an optional helper model that powers memory and routing.
- Your records are the memory of everything: every conversation is written into a tamper-evident record on your device, exportable as a file anyone can verify.
Where to go next
- Install the app - macOS, Windows, Linux.
- The welcome - three steps: your first model, your three AIs, go.
- Your first chat - say hello, attach things, make it remember.
- Meet your AIs - author characters or add ours.
No Flowsta identity needed
The app works fully without a Flowsta identity. You only connect the free Flowsta Vault if you want online models, signed exports, or automatic backups - see Backups and recovery.