Free Personal Assistants
As of August 2026, AIDiveForge tracks 13 free personal assistants. The top three by verified-data score are Chalie, LIA, and AI Secretary. Curated free personal assistants tracked by AIDiveForge. Each tool listed is currently free. Listings are verified against each tool's live website and re-checked regularly.
Last updated July 21, 2026 · 13 tools
Ranked by AIDiveForge's verified-data score: data completeness, verification recency, community rating, and real visitor engagement. How we rank · No tool can pay for placement.
1. Chalie
Chalie runs locally via Docker or install.sh, requires no account, and operates under Apache 2.0. It builds a working model of your goals over time — not a transcript archive — and lets irrelevant context fade rather than accumulate. When you step away, it runs tidying tasks autonomously, within a permission boundary that starts narrow and expands only as trust is established. Other local or external AI tools can plug into Chalie's context store, so you aren't rebuilding project state from scratch in every tool. This is beta software; the vendor states edges are rough by design, and the agent asks before acting in most cases.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jul 21, 2026
2. LIA
LIA routes a single natural-language request across 19+ specialized agents running in parallel — calendar, contacts, email, browser, smart home — without you specifying which ones. Phone calls go through an ElevenLabs connector: you approve the recipient and purpose, LIA conducts the conversation, and a written summary lands in chat. Browser control handles JavaScript-rendered pages for form filling and data extraction, with progressive screenshots surfaced in the conversation. The approval gate is genuine — the vendor states that unexpected costs or commitments are flagged and held, never auto-accepted. As an open-source beta, the integration surface is wide, but the stability guarantees that come with a production SaaS product are not yet there.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jul 19, 2026
3. AI Secretary
Telegram AI Secretary is a self-hosted Python daemon that listens to a Telegram account via Telethon, runs each incoming message through configurable notification rules and an LLM filter, then fires only the alerts that pass to your phone through ntfy. Setup requires a working Python environment, Telegram API credentials, an LLM endpoint, and an ntfy instance — none of which come pre-configured. The filtering logic lives in notification_rules.py, which you edit directly; there is no UI. It handles muted groups, direct urgency signals, and same-day scheduling well. It does not handle anything beyond single-message evaluation — no thread awareness, no conversation memory across sessions.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jul 21, 2026
4. HeyChat
HeyChat is an open-source desktop chat client built on Tauri v2, React, and TypeScript. It handles real-time streaming conversations across Google Gemini, OpenAI, Groq, Anthropic, Ollama, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with chat history stored locally in SQLite. The keychain-backed credential storage means your API keys never sit in a dotfile. Where it breaks: this is a chat interface, not a workflow builder — there are no tool calls, no agents running tasks on their own, no branching logic. Teams that need anything beyond a multi-provider chat window will hit that ceiling fast.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jul 17, 2026
5. Orbital PAI
Built on Elixir/Phoenix for low-latency local execution, it handles calendar management, email, reminders, weather queries, and web search through a tool-calling brain that chains steps without you scripting the handoffs. Persistent memory means it carries context across sessions rather than starting blank every conversation. The self-hosted path is real — there is a Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml in the repo. The warning the maintainers put at the top of the README is not decorative: the project is under heavy active development, which means APIs shift, documented behavior changes, and any deployment you build today is maintenance work tomorrow.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jul 16, 2026
6. Teya
Teya is an open-source, Android-based home agent that listens, holds context across conversations, and acts across apps — running on a spare phone mounted on a wall. There is no cloud subscription, no hosted API, and no vendor to call when it stops working: you own the stack. The README describes skills, a memory layer, and the ability to coordinate family schedules rather than just execute one-off commands. That self-contained architecture is also the ceiling — setup requires Android build tooling, and any skill that doesn't exist yet is yours to write. Families comfortable with a Gradle build and a spare Android device will find this fits a gap no commercial product fills; families who are not will hit a wall before the first reminder fires.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jul 20, 2026
7. Persnally
The setup is a single npm install and an import command that reads your Claude exports, Claude Code sessions, and git repos, then builds a structured, evidence-linked profile in ~/.persnally. From there, a local daemon serves that profile over MCP so Claude, Cursor, Copilot, and other connected tools load your conventions and preferences at session start without you repeating them. Per-client scopes let you decide exactly what each tool can see. The architecture is the trust model — context never leaves your machine, deletions erase source events and rebuild all derived views with no residue. Where it breaks: any tool that does not speak MCP stays out of the loop, and teams using proprietary AI integrations without MCP support get nothing from this.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jun 30, 2026
8. Myna
Myna runs entirely inside Claude Code as a local-first agent layer — the vendor describes it as an AI Chief of Staff, covering meeting prep, inbox triage, project status tracking, escalation drafting, and retrieval of past decisions. The architecture the GitHub page documents is 12 agents and 31 skills, built autonomously by Claude Code itself. Nothing leaves your machine, which means it is a viable option for teams operating under data residency constraints where SaaS tools are ruled out before the demo ends. The ceiling appears quickly for teams who do not already live in Claude Code — this is not a standalone app or a web UI, it is a plugin layer, so anyone outside that workflow starts at zero setup cost before getting to zero productivity gain.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jul 1, 2026
9. Aitne
Aitne is a local-first, open-source personal agent that runs on your machine, wakes at 04:00, pulls from your calendar, email, GitHub, and Markdown notes, and drops a one-page briefing into your Slack, Telegram, Discord, or WhatsApp DMs before your day starts. Hourly nudges surface urgent emails and pending PR reviews throughout the day. By evening it journals what actually happened, building a Markdown knowledge base you own entirely. The agent runs via npm with no cloud dependency — your data never leaves your machine. The ceiling appears fast: this is a single-user, single-machine system, and anything requiring team-wide coordination or multi-account enterprise integrations lives outside its scope.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jun 9, 2026
10. Alchimist
The extension parses the active web page and feeds that content as grounded context into your chosen persona, then generates output without sending anything to a hosted backend — your API key, your browser, your data. Persona-based rewriting lets you reshape or refine page content through a defined voice, which matters when you're producing client work that needs to sound like someone specific. The client-side architecture is the core differentiator: nothing leaves the browser except the call you make to your own API endpoint. That same architecture is the ceiling — there is no shared workspace, no team queue, and no way to chain steps across sessions without starting over.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jun 25, 2026
11. Eva
The home screen organizes work across four tabs — Chat, Images, Music, Docs — so you are not stitching together separate apps to get a grounded assistant plus media playback. Music continues in the background with lock-screen controls while you use the chat or docs tabs, which means the assistant does not interrupt your queue. The ceiling appears fast on older or mid-range hardware: on-device inference is bottlenecked by the ARM64 chip you have, not a server you can upgrade. No API is exposed, so there is no path to building a pipeline around Eva or connecting it to other tooling. The open-source repo has 1 star and 0 open issues at time of curation, meaning community support is effectively nonexistent.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jun 18, 2026
12. OpenClaw
OpenClaw runs as a self-hosted agent on your machine, connecting to WhatsApp, Telegram, or other chat apps you already use, then executing multi-step tasks autonomously — clearing inboxes, managing calendars, controlling local devices. Your context and skills live on your hardware, not a vendor's server. The agent extends itself: you describe a new capability in chat and it builds the skill. Community reports and the GitHub source confirm it is still in beta, which means rough edges surface on tasks requiring precise sequencing or app-specific edge cases. Teams hitting those edges are currently writing custom extensions rather than finding a polished fallback.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jun 13, 2026
13. Weave
Weave watches your screen via OCR, pulls Gmail and Calendar data, and stores all of it locally in SQLite — so the context it works from is yours and stays on your machine. The morning brief surfaces to-dos, overdue commitments, and response debt before your day starts. When you need action rather than summary, a browser agent plans and executes steps toward a goal, and a separate macOS agent drives native apps by voice or intent. The ceiling appears early: this is a solo developer project at 72 commits with no hosted fallback, no API, and no documented path for teams or shared memory.
FreeOpen SourceSelf-hostedVerified Jun 18, 2026
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