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Hob

Free, MIT-licensed desktop app that works on your local files with open-weight models, and it can run fully offline.

Hob is a free, MIT-licensed desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux. It works on your local files in the way the Claude and ChatGPT desktop apps do, and it runs open-weight models on your own computer via llama.cpp. The models it runs now are Gemma 4 and gpt-oss. On first install it picks a model for your hardware. It includes sandboxed Python for ad hoc tools, built-in web search through SearXNG that can be turned off, MCP support, image recognition, and local file read and write. It works fully offline. Local models are weaker than frontier cloud models. The model download is large. One Hacker News user reported 18 GB.

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10 in Productivity
Local files with an open-weight model, including fully offline.
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22 in AI agents
A desktop agent that runs an open-weight model on your computer.
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Free

Free and MIT-licensed. You still download a local model. One Hacker News user reported an 18 GB download.

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Added October 27, 2026

Last verified October 27, 2026

Dated releases

October 26, 2026
Hob launched as a free, MIT-licensed desktop app that works on your files with local open-weight models, offline.
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