Launching today
Keel
An AI assistant whose memory belongs to you
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An AI assistant whose memory belongs to you
16 followers
Keel is a local-first desktop app for macOS and Windows that captures what matters from your conversations into plain markdown files on your disk. Bring your own model - Claude, GPT, OpenRouter, or Ollama. Your context stays with you, not the vendor. Open source, MIT. https://keel-labs.github.io/
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built Keel because every AI tool I tried had the same problem: my context lived inside someone else's product. The notes, the history, the slowly-built understanding of my projects - all trapped behind one vendor's login. The day that model gets deprecated or that company changes direction, my brain goes with it.
Keel flips that. Your memories live on your disk, in plain markdown, in a folder you own. You can open them in any editor, back them up, version-control them, move them between machines. The model is the part that's interchangeable - Claude today, GPT tomorrow, a local Llama on a flight. The assistant changes; your context doesn't.
A few things worth knowing:
It's a real desktop app for Mac and Windows (Electron + React + TypeScript).
Bring your own API key. No telemetry. No account. No cloud sync (yet).
It's a v1 beta - Apple Silicon only, no Windows/Linux yet, no mobile.
It's a one-person project. I'll read every comment here today; I can't promise to build every feature (yet).
Would love your feedback. Thanks for taking a look.