Off Grid AI
Private AI on your phone and computer.
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Off Grid AI runs AI models on the phone and computer you already own. Chat, read documents, ask about photos, talk out loud and make images, with the Wi-Fi off and no account. On your computer it remembers your day: meetings transcribed with no bot in the call, answers that cite their source, and replies it drafts but only sends after your yes. Your phone can use your Mac's bigger models, device to device. Free and open source on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux.
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PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 101 upvotes (top 1%)
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Android
- Chrome Extensions
- Open Source
- Privacy
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Partial The chat, document Q&A, and transcription features are wrappers around open-weight models, which are vibe-codeable. Running models efficiently on phones and desktops across platforms, plus offline and on-device multimodal features, requires native inference engineering that vibe coding alone won't supply.
What it would actually take: The stack would be llama.cpp or similar on-device runtimes with Metal/CUDA/NPU acceleration, quantized model packaging, and native shells for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. Local speech-to-text, image generation, and retrieval over local files add more pieces. It needs engineers who understand inference optimization and mobile/desktop platform constraints.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #15 of 404 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
- Off Grid · hn · 2026-02-14 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Off Grid: On-device AI-web browsing, tools vision,image,voice–3x faster · hn · 2026-02-24 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- KernelAI · ph · 2026-10-10 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Run AI chat, image gen, vision, and voice offline on your Mac · hn · 2026-06-29 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Nano AI: Offline AI Assistant · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- gethome · ph · 2026-10-24 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- LocalMind: Pocket AI Assistant · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Ownmind: Your Private Thoughts · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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