Say or type what you need. Linda does the computer chores in its own browser and your shared folders, while you get on with your day. No subscription. No passwords in someone else's cloud.
Privacy first · Free DMG · macOS 26 · Apple Silicon · 24 GB memory or more
Everything you'd want from a cloud assistant. Nothing you'd have to give up.
Invoices from three portals, prices from five shops, a folder of scans that needs names. The small, frequent work that no integration covers.
Linda signs in, clicks, reads and downloads in a browser profile of its own, in the background. It never takes your mouse, never opens your accounts. Watch live, or close the window and keep working.
Send, buy, delete, post or submit personal data: it stops and shows you exactly what will happen.
Gates live in code. No setting, no page and no instruction can skip them.
Hold Right Option and talk, like Siri. The words appear live. Say "Stop" and any task halts. Speech never leaves your Mac.
Share a folder and Linda can read, rename, merge and make PDFs, spreadsheets and documents there. Everything else stays off limits.
After a task, one tap turns it into a routine: daily, weekly or monthly. Linda also watches pages and tells you when something changes.
Linda keeps what you tell it about yourself on this Mac, where you can read, edit and forget any of it. Text from web pages, emails or files is never saved as a fact about you.
Calendar, Reminders, Notion, Todoist, Linear, GitHub, Stripe and skills you write yourself. Every one of them goes through the same approvals.
Native SwiftUI, system materials, light and dark. A sidebar of tasks, the task as a chat, and Linda's browser when it needs one.
Start from one box, or from an example. Work in a folder with one click.
Run Linda entirely on your Mac with local AI models, point it at a server you run yourself, or plug in a frontier model through OpenRouter. Switch any time.
A built-in model runs on Apple Silicon with MLX. Nothing you say, see or save leaves your Mac. No key, no account, no bill.
Already run models locally? Connect any OpenAI-compatible API on your machine, like Ollama, LM Studio or mlx-lm, and use the models you like.
Want more power for hard tasks? Add your own OpenRouter key and pay only for what you use. Your key stays in Keychain and passwords never go to it.
Memory, voice, files and passwords stay on your Mac whichever you pick.
Press Option Space anywhere, or hold Right Option and speak. "Download my September invoices from Enel and put them in Accounting."
Linda plans, opens its browser and works through the steps. It only needs you for a login, a choice or an approval, and tells you with a notification.
"Done. 2 invoices saved to Accounting." Files one click away. Tap Every month and it happens on its own from now on.
Cloud assistants that can do chores cost $120 to $300 a month and want your passwords, email and files on their servers. Linda keeps all of that on your Mac.
Thinks on your MacLocal AI models on Apple Silicon by default, or your own Ollama or OpenAI-compatible server. OpenRouter is opt in, with your own key, and passwords never go to it.
Passwords never enter the chatLogins open a secure field that types straight into Linda's browser. Secrets live in your Keychain.
Your voice stays in the roomSpeech recognition runs on device. Audio is never sent or stored.
Always visible, always stoppableA live view of what Linda does, one tap to take over, and "Stop" works in any state.
| Linda | Cloud assistants | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $120 to $300 a month |
| Where it thinks | On your Mac | Their servers |
| Choice of AI | Local, Ollama, or OpenRouter | Theirs only |
| Your passwords | Your Keychain | Handed over |
| Your voice | On device, never stored | Usually processed in the cloud |
| Memory about you | On your Mac, editable | In their cloud |
| Irreversible actions | Always asks first | Depends |
| Account needed | No | Yes |
Yes. Linda runs on your Mac with local AI models, so there is nothing to pay for. If you want a frontier model, add your own OpenRouter key and pay only for what you use.
Yes. Linda talks to any OpenAI-compatible API running on your Mac, such as Ollama, LM Studio or mlx-lm. Pick the model you like; everything stays local.
The thinking, your memory, your voice and your files all stay on your Mac. Tasks that visit websites need the internet, of course, and Linda uses its own browser for them.
No. Linda works in its own browser profile and only in folders you share. It never uses your browser profile, Mail or Messages. If you want, you can let it use your Chrome through the Linda extension, in its own tabs, on sites you allow.
Send, buy, delete, post, or submit your personal data. Each one shows an approval card first. Your voice can confirm only while that card is on screen.
A Mac with Apple Silicon, macOS 26 and 24 GB of memory or more. Install, grant two permissions (Accessibility and Screen Recording), and type your first task.
One download. No account. Your first task in under ten minutes.
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