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# 1LocalAITool
> Local AI, as easy as ChatGPT. On your own computer. A private desktop AI app for macOS, Windows and Linux: chat like ChatGPT with a model that runs on your own computer, plus an overnight job queue, a phone inbox and a household pool of computers. Not affiliated with the LocalAI open-source project.
1LocalAITool is made by StoicSoft (https://stoicsoft.com). Stack: Tauri 2, Rust, React, llama.cpp sidecar, SQLite.. Happy path never shows VRAM, quantization names, or llama.cpp. Each job runs on one awake machine. Linking machines does not invent a cluster.
Version 0.2.0 (2026-09-24) added reading pictures: photos and scans back into Word, PDF or text, and pictures you can ask about in chat. Runs on macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows 10/11 64-bit and, since 0.8.0, 64-bit Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 or newer; .deb and AppImage). Pricing: free to use with lifetime caps of 30 overnight jobs, 200 chat messages and 2 hand-picked chat models; Pro is one payment of $29 (1 computer), $59 (3) or $89 (5) with 12 months of updates, no subscription (Free, or Pro from $29 once).
## Product
- [Home](https://1localaitool.com/): Local AI, as easy as ChatGPT. On your own computer.
- [Features](https://1localaitool.com/features): Device scan, one question, overnight jobs, phone inbox.
- [Pricing](https://1localaitool.com/pricing): Free; Pro $29 / $59 / $89 once for 1 / 3 / 5 computers.
- [Download](https://1localaitool.com/download): Installers for macOS (Apple Silicon, Intel), Windows and Linux (.deb, AppImage).
- [Changelog](https://1localaitool.com/changelog): Release notes for every version.
## Comparisons
- [1LocalAITool vs ChatGPT](https://1localaitool.com/compare/chatgpt): Instant, far more capable, and in the cloud. 1LocalAITool is slower, runs on computers you own, and has no subscription.
- [1LocalAITool vs Google Gemini](https://1localaitool.com/compare/gemini): Google's hosted assistant, fast and tied into your Google account. 1LocalAITool keeps the work on your own computer.
- [1LocalAITool vs Claude](https://1localaitool.com/compare/claude): Anthropic's hosted assistant: excellent at writing and code, answered in the cloud. 1LocalAITool gives you the same chat-first feel on a computer you own.
- [1LocalAITool vs Ollama](https://1localaitool.com/compare/ollama): Free, open source and excellent at running models. Built around a command line and an API. Not an overnight job queue.
- [1LocalAITool vs LocalAI](https://1localaitool.com/compare/localai): A different product with a similar name. An open-source server you run yourself. We are not affiliated.
- [1LocalAITool vs LM Studio](https://1localaitool.com/compare/lm-studio): A free, polished desktop app for exploring and chatting with local models. You still choose the model and sit at the chat.
- [1LocalAITool vs Jan](https://1localaitool.com/compare/jan): A free, open-source, offline ChatGPT-style app. Still a chat window you sit at, and you still choose the model.
- [1LocalAITool vs GPT4All](https://1localaitool.com/compare/gpt4all): A free, approachable local chat app that can answer from your own documents. Built for one person at one desk.
- [1LocalAITool vs llamafile](https://1localaitool.com/compare/llamafile): A model and its runtime in one executable. Brilliant, free and portable, and still a command-line tool.
- [1LocalAITool vs AnythingLLM](https://1localaitool.com/compare/anythingllm): An open-source workspace for chatting with your documents, using local or cloud models. Powerful and configurable, and interactive.
- [1LocalAITool vs Msty](https://1localaitool.com/compare/msty): A polished desktop chat app for local and online models. Great for power chatting. Not an overnight queue.
- [1LocalAITool vs Open WebUI](https://1localaitool.com/compare/open-webui): A popular, free, self-hosted web front end for local and remote models. Very capable, if you can run a server.
- [1LocalAITool vs Atomic Chat](https://1localaitool.com/compare/atomic-chat): A free, open-source local chat app with a huge model library and on-phone models. 1LocalAITool picks the model for you and adds an overnight job queue across your household's computers.
- [1LocalAITool vs Cherry Studio](https://1localaitool.com/compare/cherry-studio): A free, open-source hub for many AI providers and hundreds of preset assistants. 1LocalAITool is one private AI that brings its own model and needs no keys.
- [1LocalAITool vs BoltAI](https://1localaitool.com/compare/boltai): A polished Mac-native client for cloud and local models, summoned from anywhere. 1LocalAITool runs its own private model on Mac and Windows and works overnight.
## Switching guides
- [ChatGPT alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/chatgpt): Where ChatGPT still wins: Anyone who needs an answer right now, wants the most capable model available, or needs live web search and the newest features. For raw quality and speed, ChatGPT is ahead of anything a home co…
- [Google Gemini alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/gemini): Where Google Gemini still wins: People who live in Google's apps and want fast answers, live web results and a very capable model. If you want it inside Gmail and Docs, Gemini is the natural choice and a local app canno…
- [Claude alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/claude): Where Claude still wins: Long, careful writing, hard reasoning and serious coding help, answered in seconds. For quality on difficult work, a frontier hosted model like Claude is well ahead of anything a home computer r…
- [Ollama alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/ollama): Where Ollama still wins: Developers and tinkerers who are comfortable in a terminal, want full control over which model runs, or want a free, open-source engine to plug other tools into. For that, Ollama is one of the b…
- [LocalAI alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/localai): Where LocalAI still wins: Developers and homelab users who want a free, open-source, drop-in OpenAI-compatible server they deploy and operate themselves, on Linux or in containers. If that is what you searched for, Loca…
- [LM Studio alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/lm-studio): Where LM Studio still wins: People who enjoy trying different models, comparing them and tuning settings, and developers who want a friendly local server. For model exploration, LM Studio is excellent and free.
- [Jan alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/jan): Where Jan still wins: People who want an open-source, offline chat assistant that feels like ChatGPT, and who are comfortable choosing a model. If open source is a hard requirement, Jan is a strong answer.
- [GPT4All alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/gpt4all): Where GPT4All still wins: People who want a simple, free, offline assistant that can search a folder of their own documents while they chat. It is one of the gentler ways into local AI.
- [llamafile alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/llamafile): Where llamafile still wins: Technical users who want a portable, dependency-free way to run one specific model anywhere, including Linux, or to ship a model to someone as a single file.
- [AnythingLLM alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/anythingllm): Where AnythingLLM still wins: People who want a free, configurable document-chat workspace, like choosing their own model provider or vector database, or want to self-host for a team. For flexible document chat, it is a…
- [Msty alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/msty): Where Msty still wins: Heavy chat users who want one polished app for both local and cloud models, with many ways to organise and compare conversations.
- [Open WebUI alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/open-webui): Where Open WebUI still wins: Homelab users and small teams who can run a server and want a ChatGPT-like web interface for everyone on the network, with lots of extensibility. For that, it is one of the most complete opt…
- [Atomic Chat alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/atomic-chat): Where Atomic Chat still wins: People who want a free, open-source local chat app, a very large choice of models, or models running directly on their phone. On price, openness and platform reach, Atomic Chat is ahead — w…
- [Cherry Studio alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/cherry-studio): Where Cherry Studio still wins: People who use several AI providers and want one window for all of them, with many preset assistants and a knowledge base. For breadth of providers and presets, Cherry Studio is hard to b…
- [BoltAI alternative](https://1localaitool.com/alternative/boltai): Where BoltAI still wins: Mac power users who want a fast, system-wide way to ask any cloud model about what is on screen. As a native Mac client for many providers, BoltAI is excellent.
## Feature pages
- [The two-second scan](https://1localaitool.com/features/two-second-scan): On first launch it looks at the machine and recommends a model in plain language. No numbers to look up.
- [One question on day one](https://1localaitool.com/features/one-question-setup): What else usually runs on this computer? That is the entire configuration.
- [The overnight queue](https://1localaitool.com/features/overnight-queue): Submit a job at bedtime. An idle machine in the house picks it up. The answer is waiting at breakfast.
- [The phone as inbox](https://1localaitool.com/features/phone-inbox): Ask from the sofa, read in the kitchen. The phone is the daily surface; it never runs the model.
- [Link your machines](https://1localaitool.com/features/link-your-machines): Linking widens what kinds of job you can accept and how often a worker is awake. It does not invent a cluster.
- [What it can do, and how long it takes here](https://1localaitool.com/features/honest-capability-list): Twelve kinds of overnight job ship as of 0.2.0, and every task card says how long it takes on this computer — measured or estimated, labelled as which.
- [Nothing leaves the house](https://1localaitool.com/features/nothing-leaves-the-house): Local-first, with the queue and the results in SQLite on your own disk.
- [One payment, no monthly bill](https://1localaitool.com/features/one-payment-no-bill): One payment, yours forever, with 12 months of updates. $29 for one machine, $59 for three, $89 for five — the licence is tied to you, not to a computer.
- [Chat with your own model](https://1localaitool.com/features/chat-with-your-own-model): A normal chat window, answered by a model on this computer. Attach files and ask about them; pin a conversation to whichever model suits it.
- [Skills a job can use](https://1localaitool.com/features/skills-a-job-can-use): Switch on what a job is allowed to reach for while it works — a web look-up, a read-only terminal — and what it should leave behind, like a deck or a PDF.
- [Pictures, 3D and voice](https://1localaitool.com/features/pictures-3d-and-voice): The night is long enough to draw a picture, sculpt a 3D model, read a chapter aloud, or turn a recording into text — all on this computer.
- [Routines that repeat](https://1localaitool.com/features/routines-that-repeat): A job you want again and again — a nightly summary, a weekly picture — set once and left to run on its own schedule.
- [Your own model endpoint](https://1localaitool.com/features/your-own-model-endpoint): OpenAI- and Anthropic-shaped endpoints on this machine, plus a batch API on the night queue, an MCP server and a command line. Point your editor at it and nothing changes except the bill.
- [Code with your own model](https://1localaitool.com/features/code-with-your-own-model): Install a coding agent CLI and have the app wire it to this computer's model for you — including the rules file, which the local model writes itself.
- [Models you choose](https://1localaitool.com/features/models-you-choose): The app picks a model that fits this computer on first launch, and after that the choice is yours — download others, switch per machine, or keep the one it suggested.
- [Read pictures](https://1localaitool.com/features/read-pictures): Turn photos, scans and screenshots back into text you can edit, as a Word document, a PDF or plain text, on this computer. Chat can answer questions about a picture too.
## Wiki
- [Running AI on home computers](https://1localaitool.com/wiki/running-ai-on-home-computers): 4 answered questions.
- [Local AI versus cloud AI](https://1localaitool.com/wiki/local-ai-vs-cloud-ai): 4 answered questions.
- [Choosing a local model](https://1localaitool.com/wiki/choosing-a-local-model): 4 answered questions.
- [Putting old computers to work](https://1localaitool.com/wiki/using-old-computers): 3 answered questions.
## Blog
- [When the engine will not start: what 1LocalAITool 0.9.0 changes](https://1localaitool.com/blog/when-the-engine-will-not-start): A failed start now opens a page with the engine's own error, the log paths and a report you can copy, and an unanswered message no longer costs a free one.
- [Clean up a noisy recording on your own computer, no ffmpeg to install](https://1localaitool.com/blog/clean-audio-recordings-offline): Take hum, hiss and rumble out of a voice memo or interview without uploading it anywhere. In 0.6.0 the audio cleaner installs itself the first time you need it.
- [Use your own Stable Diffusion checkpoint, and pick the model for every job](https://1localaitool.com/blog/use-your-own-stable-diffusion-checkpoint): Add any .safetensors checkpoint by link or file, then choose which model draws each picture, and which model answers each text job, right on the Tasks screen.
- [Your own models, kept tidy: what 1LocalAITool 0.6.0 changes](https://1localaitool.com/blog/your-own-models-kept-tidy): Add a model by link, file or folder and the app checks it, finds it and keeps one encrypted copy. No more 0 B ghosts, no more duplicate gigabytes.
- [Introducing 1LocalAITool: your computers, working overnight](https://1localaitool.com/blog/introducing-1localaitool): 1LocalAITool 0.1.0 is out for macOS and Windows. Queue AI work in the evening, let a computer you already own do it overnight, and read the answer on your phone in the morning. Private, no account, no monthly bill.
- [How to run AI on an old computer overnight (no terminal needed)](https://1localaitool.com/blog/run-ai-on-an-old-computer): The spare PC or retired laptop in your house can run a useful AI model today. Here is what it can realistically do, why overnight is the right mode, and how to set it up without a terminal.
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