The assistant that never phones home.
Ari hears you, understands you, and answers — right on your device. Open-source, extensible, and it speaks more than one language. No account. No data broker. No catch.
Watch Ari do its thing.
A quick look at Ari listening, thinking, and answering — all on the phone, no cloud round-trip. Yes, it really is this quick.
A proper Linux desktop app is on the workbench — libadwaita, built for GNOME. Same engine, same skills, same "stays on your machine" promise.
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Most assistants ship your voice to a data centre and ask you to trust the policy. Ari mostly doesn't need to — and when something does use the internet, it says so.
The thinking happens here
The listening, the transcribing, and the working-out-what-you-meant all happen on your phone. The internet is optional.
You decide what leaves
Want to plug in ChatGPT or Claude? Go for it — but that's your call, and every skill is upfront about when it uses the network.
Don't just take our word
Every line is out in the open. Read the code, check the claims, or fork the lot.
Everything a good assistant should be. Nothing it shouldn't.
“Hey Ari” wake word
Say the magic words and Ari wakes up — no button, no fuss. The listening runs on-device, so there's no always-on mic piping your kitchen chatter off to the cloud.
Skills & assistants
Weather, timers, reminders, smart home, music, directions — all installable from an open, signed registry. Want a big cloud brain too? Add one. Or don't.
Speaks your language
English and Italian today, and adding a language is translation work, not a rewrite. Ari was built multilingual from day one, not bolted on later.
A brain that works offline
There's a small language model living on your device for the open-ended questions. No signal? Ari still has answers. Prefer a cloud model? Plug it in — your call.
Talk or type
Voice-first, but never voice-only. Say it, dictate it, or just type it — and answers come back as cards you can tap or talk to.
Yours to extend
Fancy building a skill? The simple kind takes about fifteen minutes and zero build tools. Need real logic? Ship a sandboxed WASM one instead.
Not out yet — but close.
Ari's in active pre-release. Star the repo to follow along, and you'll be first to know the moment the Android build lands.