Linda
Your local AI coworker for the Mac, like Dots but free!
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Details
- External ID
- 1268622
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lidar
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 76
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.98
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Artificial Intelligence
Description
Linda is a free, private AI coworker for your Mac. Say or type what you need and it does the work in its own browser and your folders: research, price checks, pages, sheets, renamed files, replies. Set up specialists, like a Researcher or a Bookkeeper, with their own instructions and skills. Watch every step in the Computer column and take over any time. It runs local AI on Apple Silicon or uses your own key, and asks before it sends, buys, deletes or posts. No account.
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop ai assistants
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local ai assistant for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It wraps common local desktop automation libraries and headless browser drivers (like Playwright or Browser-Use) into an Electron or Tauri desktop UI with an LLM agent loop.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 83 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 84 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 250 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Little Workroom · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Errandly — Your work. Handled. · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Sageling · hn · 2026-09-04 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- holmes · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Julie Zero · hn · 2026-01-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.36