Hey Product Hunt 👋 Mike here, founder of Carapace. I built this because every AI app on the market wants to own your data, your model, and your wallet. Carapace flips it: your iPhone is the input, your Mac (or Linux box / Raspberry Pi) is the brain, and YOU pick the LLM — Gemini free tier covers most personal use, or wire up Claude / ChatGPT / a local llama.cpp. What's actually different: 🦞 **Persistent memory across devices.** Yesterday's conversation on your phone is available today on your Mac. The memory lives in markdown files in `~/.openclaw/workspace/` — human-readable, you own it, you can grep it. 📸 **Vision mode.** Hold up your camera, ask "what is this?" The model sees what you see. Useful for prescription labels, product comparisons, "is this the right cable" moments. 🎯 **Situational context.** Every iPhone request carries your location, motion state (walking / driving / stationary), heading, and nearby POIs. The model knows you're in your car before you have to tell it. 🔒 **Tailscale-native.** No port forwarding. No public endpoint. Your tailnet, your gateway, your data. 🆓 **Free.** Notarized Mac DMG, App Store iOS app, MIT-licensed Linux installer. We have no server. We don't see your prompts. You pay your AI provider directly. 🧪 **Open install script.** The installer is line-numbered on GitHub at https://github.com/mikeypaepke-g... — audit it before you run it. **Get it:** - Mac: https://carapace.info/Carapace-2... (notarized DMG, 5.5 MB) - iPhone: search "Carapace" on the App Store - Linux / Pi: one-line curl, takes ~8 minutes Site: https://carapace.info I'll be here all day — ask me anything. Especially curious to hear from folks who've tried other "personal AI" attempts and have opinions about what's missing.

CARAPACE: Your OpenClaw can finally see

Your OpenClaw — in your pocket, on your hardware. Free.

Your OpenClaw — in your pocket, on your hardware. Free.