hermitAI

hermitAI is a local AI desktop app that gives you a chat, code, and vision interface for running language models entirely on your own machine via Ollama. Built for privacy-conscious users who would rather not paste sensitive code or documents into cloud services, it has no cloud dependency, no API keys, and no telemetry. The app offers three specialized modes: Chat for conversations, Code for programming with a live HTML/CSS/JS preview, and Vision for image analysis. At setup it presents a curated model selection with parallel downloads, and it stores conversations locally in IndexedDB with export and import support. Power users get slash commands such as /clear, /export, /model, and /system, plus per-conversation custom system prompts, pinned conversations, folder organization, and search. hermitAI is open-source under the MIT license and free. It is aimed at developers and professionals who want a fast, quiet local LLM interface that keeps internal docs, billing details, and unfinished code on their own laptop.

People use hermitAI to chat, code, and run vision tasks with local LLMs privately on their own laptop.