Hob is a free, open-source AI app for Mac, Windows and Linux that works with your files the way ChatGPT and Claude do, except the AI runs on your own computer. It picks the best open model your computer can run and sets it up for you. Hob can read and edit files in folders you choose, turn spreadsheets into charts, fill in PDFs, look at photos and search the web. Your chats and files stay on your computer, and it works offline.
Most in-app AI agents answer "how do I do this?" with a wall of text, because they can't see the screen. The Frigade Assist API is one tool call your existing agent makes. Frigade draws a step-by-step guide right on the page, hands the agent a plain answer when it can't, and tells it what the user is looking at. It knows your product because browser agents used it first, and it relearns every release. Works with the Vercel AI SDK or anything that can call a tool.
Yap turns speech into text anywhere you can type on your Mac. Set a hotkey, talk, press it again, and the words get pasted into whatever field you were in.
It runs entirely on device using macOS 26's speech APIs, so there's no model to download and nothing leaves your machine. It's around 3,000 lines of native Swift in a 4 MB app that idles near 60 MB of memory. Free, MIT licensed, and built by Frigade because we wanted it for ourselves.
