Kai

Simon Schubert

About this app

Meet Kai — your local OpenClaw alternative in your pocket. A fast, open-source AI chat app powered by models like Llama, Gemini, GPT, and DeepSeek. Dive into seamless chats for brainstorming, writing, summarizing, learning, or casual talks — all in a minimalist interface that loads in seconds.

Supported AI Services
• Ollama / LM Studio: Connect to your self-hosted local AI models (OpenAI-compatible)
• OpenAI: Access GPT models for powerful conversations
• Gemini: Google's advanced AI with built-in file attachment support
• DeepSeek: High-performance reasoning models
• xAI: Innovative Grok models for creative and insightful responses
• Mistral AI: Efficient multilingual models
• Groq: Ultra-fast AI inference for quick replies
• OpenRouter: Access hundreds of models through one API
• NVIDIA: Run NVIDIA-hosted models
• Any OpenAI-compatible API: Bring your own endpoint

Key Features
• Persistent Memory: AI remembers important details across conversations
• Encrypted Local Storage: Securely store your chat history on your device
• Text-to-Speech: Hear AI responses aloud with natural-sounding voice output
• File Attachments: Upload files to enhance your conversations (supported on Gemini)
• Seamless Service Switching: Switch between AI providers effortlessly mid-conversation
• Multi-Turn Conversations: Context-aware chats where AI remembers previous messages
• Background Daemon & Task Scheduling: Schedule tasks with cron expressions or heartbeat intervals

AI Tools (Enable in Settings)
• Get Local Time: Accurate current date and time info
• Get Location: Location-based responses using IP detection
• Send Notification: Push notifications triggered by AI
• Create Calendar Event: Add events to your calendar from chat
• Web Search: Let AI search the web for up-to-date answers
• Run Shell Command: Execute commands on your device via AI
• Schedule / Cancel / List Tasks: Manage recurring AI tasks

Privacy First
Kai prioritizes your privacy: All chat history is stored locally with strong encryption. When using cloud AI services, your data is sent directly to the providers for processing — no data collection by the app itself. Stay in control with this open-source AI chat app.

Ratings and reviews

This is a really good app! I do have some suggestions though: Maybe more encryption if you want it to be more private, some more color themes, a little number at the bottom of each text showing how much tokens it took, a widget for direct chat, and fallbacks to different AI models if you set up the API Key? These are just some suggestions but overall your app is great!

Competition in this space is valuable and this app's open-sourced nature is a huge plus over the bigger apps. More user control is always a positive in my book. However, the fact that this app lacks the basic standard of user message editing tech is a strange omission. That's the first issue I have with this, the other odd issue is the app's capability to apparently only have a single chat string active at any time, it deletes the chat you have going if you try to start a new one. Multiple chats, please. The final issue is more an observation, but the memory logs of the bot seem to be bugged or something. It logged a memory once and despite me asking further questions it just didn't log anything new. Unless it adds to the existing logged memory, which if that's the case then please give us the ability to expand into it to fully read it. Again, either something's up or I'm missing something on this point. All that said I think this gave a good first impression and I'd like to continue using it, but these issues are contesting that. I hope you can find time to spruce things up here. 👍

WHAT THE? DOESN'T WORK... NEEDS API KEY? what a waste of download, time, and energy. Uninstalled this useless rubbish!

What’s new

Fix crash when restoring encrypted backups