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Off Grid AI

Off Grid AI
open core / Overall score: 2.3

Off Grid AI is an on-device assistant for iPhone and Mac. It runs GGUF language models locally with vision input, Whisper speech recognition and image generation, and adds retrieval over local files and MCP tool access. A paid Pro tier adds on-device text-to-speech, custom personas, approval-gated actions and cross-device sync.

Openness

4 high confidence
4.0
license
MIT(OSI)
source
public(off-grid-ai/OGAM)
core features withheld
yes — the README sells an Off Grid AI Pro tier at 69 dollars for life or 49 dollars a year, and lists the capabilities it adds over the published app - on-device text-to-speech, custom personas, approval-gated actions through Calendar, email and MCP servers, and cross-device sync

MIT, an OSI license with no appended terms, covers OGAM's full public source. The gate sits in the product's pricing, not its license: a paid Pro tier adds several app features that the free published build does not have.

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/off-grid-ai/OGAM/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-10-07

    LICENSE body, read in full: the stock MIT licence text carrying a 2026 copyright line for Mohammed Ali Chherawalla, with no appended term or additional condition.

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/off-grid-ai/OGAM/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-07

    README, read for the distribution and gating question. Its "Off Grid AI Pro" section prices a tier at "$69 for life, or $49/year" and calls it "an optional, additive tier"; the "What Pro adds" list names on-device Kokoro text-to-speech, "Custom personas", drafting actions against Calendar, email and MCP servers for approval, and "Personal Mesh sync". Those are builds of this same product, so the core reads as gated.

Adoption

2 low confidence
2.0

GitHub stars are the adoption signal here because OGAM ships through an app store rather than any registry this map tracks. Stars measure attention rather than use, which is why confidence stays low.

Capability

3 medium confidence
3.0

Off Grid AI matches Jan's on-device assistant class: local language models with vision, speech and image generation, more modality range than most peers offer on a single device. It targets one person's phone and laptop rather than the multi-backend, document and agent platform surface that puts Open WebUI and AnythingLLM a step ahead.

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/off-grid-ai/OGAM/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-07

    README describes an offline suite covering "text generation, image generation, vision AI, voice transcription, tool calling, and document analysis", running "any GGUF model", "On-device Whisper speech-to-text", "Vision AI", image generation, tool calling with "knowledge base search", MCP servers in the Pro tier, and a "Performance" section.

Verified 2026-09-27