LumiChats Offline
Your AI, fully offline with Zero data collection & 100% free
408 followers
Your AI, fully offline with Zero data collection & 100% free
408 followers
Run powerful AI models entirely offline no internet, no GPU, no cloud. LumiChats Offline is a free, open-source desktop app built on GPT4All with full privacy by default. Supports Mistral, LLaMA, Qwen, DeepSeek and our own fine-tuned LumiChats models. Chat with your own PDFs and docs via LocalDocs. Works on Windows, Linux and macOS.
This is the 2nd launch from LumiChats Offline. View more
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Launched this week
70,000 people use LumiChats in a browser and kept asking for the one thing a browser cannot do: touch their files. So we built the desktop one. It runs commands on your machine, writes real documents, and you pay only for the work you run.
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The CPU only inference is the quietly underappreciated constraint here most offline AI projects quietly assume you have a CUDA capable GPU, so running on any modern laptop without that dependency
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@mohammed_messeguem Thanks, Mohammed! That was a deliberate design goal. We wanted LumiChats to work on the hardware people already have, not just high-end GPU machines. If someone does have a GPU, they can use it, but CPU-only support was important so more people can run AI locally without extra requirements. 🙌
"100% free" and "open source" while also shipping your own fine-tuned models raises an interesting question about sustainability. What's the actual business model or motivation behind maintaining this, is it a community project, a loss leader for a paid product, or something else? Knowing that matters for users deciding whether to build workflows around it, since "free forever" from a solo maintainer and "free tier of a company" have very different longevity profiles.
The permission and rollback answers above are thorough. One thing I didn't see: before a task actually runs, does the user get any kind of cost estimate, even a rough one, or do they find out what it cost only after it's done? Pay-per-use only feels safe to explore if you can tell roughly what a big task will cost before committing to it, otherwise the first surprising bill teaches the same rationing lesson Asad described, just from the other direction.
"A black window that expects you to already know the words" is exactly why terminal tools stay niche no matter how good they are.
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@irahimiam Thanks, Arash! That line came from hearing the same frustration over and over. The goal with LumiChats is to make that same power accessible without requiring people to learn terminal commands first. Really appreciate you taking the time to read and comment! 🙌
What's the difference with Claude Cowork ?
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@tacitefood Great question! Cowork is probably the closest comparison, and it's an excellent product. The main differences are that LumiChats lets you choose between running everything locally or using the cloud, supports 40+ models instead of locking you into one, and has flexible pay-as-you-go pricing with unlimited use during a day pass—no subscriptions or session limits. It's also designed to make powerful AI workflows accessible to non-developers through a simple desktop interface.
Local AI advice usually assumes you have a decent card sitting around, which rules out exactly the students who need it most. Congrats on shipping!