Hi Product Hunt 👋 I built Open Minis because every “AI assistant” on my phone could talk about my data but never actually touch it. The apps that could act were locked to one vendor’s model and one company’s cloud. So Minis takes the opposite bet. The agent gets a real Alpine Linux sandbox running on the iPhone itself — an ARM64 fork of iSH on iOS, PRoot on Android. It has a filesystem, a package manager, Python, git, ffmpeg. On top of that, 30+ native offloads expose Apple frameworks as ordinary command-line tools, so the model reaches HealthKit or HomeKit the same way it reaches ls. Turns out models are very good at CLIs. Three principles: Local-first. Your keys and data stay on-device. No account, no telemetry, no server of mine in the path. Bring your own model. Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, Grok, OpenRouter, or anything OpenAI-compatible. Open Source, all of it, iOS and Android. It’s free with no IAP. I’d genuinely love to hear where it breaks for you — the roadmap is mostly built out of issues people file.

Open Minis

An on-device AI Agent that runs on your phone, open & secure

An on-device AI Agent that runs on your phone, open & secure