No-tracking local AI chat client

A lightweight chat client with no analytics, no cloud, and your own key

Problem

A developer noticed that after ChatGPT started pushing ads, their Instagram reels became increasingly aligned with what they had talked about in ChatGPT, and decided to quit it for good by building a browser-based client with no backend. What people want is not a stronger model but an interface where they can verify where their data actually goes.

Solution

A pure front-end single-page app where users plug in their own API key or point to a local model, and all conversations stay in browser IndexedDB. No account, no analytics script, no server. It ships one-click wipe, encrypted session export, multi-model switching and a public data-flow document so anyone can audit it.

Users

Privacy-sensitive developers, journalists, researchers and SMB employees willing to pay for their own API usage

MVP

Pure front-end chat UI; user-supplied endpoint and key; conversations stored only in IndexedDB; one-click wipe and local export; model switcher; zero analytics scripts

Revenue

Open-source core plus paid desktop packaging and auto-updates; a team tier adds shared prompt libraries without ever touching conversation content

Why now

Mainstream AI assistants are adding ads and cross-site attribution, so suspicion about data flow is peaking, while a pure front-end app costs almost nothing to deploy