{"slug": "oss-local-ai-workspace", "title": "OSS Local AI Workspace", "summary": "Stitch, a free open-source desktop app, launches to manage emails, record meetings, track tasks, and automate workflows locally without cloud dependency. The app runs on macOS and Windows, supports multiple AI providers, and prioritizes user privacy by operating entirely on the user's machine.", "body_md": "A free, open-source desktop app that manages your emails, records meetings, tracks your todos, automates daily workflows, and remembers what matters. Runs on your machine, no cloud required.\n\nCapabilities\n\nStitch comes packed with tools to handle your daily work, from managing your inbox to recording meetings and automating repetitive tasks.\n\nStitch remembers your preferences, workflows, and key facts across conversations. It learns what matters to you and applies that context automatically, no repetition needed.\n\nRecord meetings from Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Slack, or Discord. Stitch captures audio locally, transcribes it, and generates summaries with action items, all on your machine.\n\nA built-in task manager with priorities, due dates, and multiple lists. Stitch can create tasks from your conversations and meetings, so nothing slips through the cracks.\n\nTurn any chat into a recurring workflow. \"Summarize my emails every morning\" or \"clean up my downloads every Friday.\" Stitch runs it on schedule without being asked.\n\nConnect Gmail and Google Calendar. Stitch can read, draft, and send emails, manage your schedule, and handle routine communications.\n\nResearch topics, look up information, fill out forms, and pull data from websites. Stitch drives a real browser on your behalf.\n\nExtend Stitch with any Model Context Protocol server. Add tools, data sources, and integrations from the growing MCP ecosystem — no plugin development needed.\n\nInstall community-built skills that teach Stitch new capabilities — from code review to data analysis. Plug in expertise on demand.\n\nMore coming soon.\n\nHow it works\n\nGet started in minutes. Stitch handles the complexity so you can focus on what you want to accomplish.\n\nDownload Stitch and connect your AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or a local model). Bring your own API keys.\n\nTell Stitch what you need in plain language. Organize files, draft an email, research a topic, clean up your schedule. Anything you'd do yourself at a computer.\n\nStitch asks for permission before running sensitive actions. You stay in control while the AI handles the work.\n\nInstallation\n\nStitch is available for macOS and Windows. Your operating system may show a warning the first time you open it. Here's how to get past it.\n\nThe warning appears because the Windows build isn't code-signed yet. We are working on it.\nStitch is fully open source. You can inspect the code or build from source on\n[GitHub](https://github.com/UseStitch/stitch).\n\nExtensibility\n\nStitch is not locked to a single provider. Use the models and integrations that work for you.\n\nGet started for free\n\nYou don't need to spend a cent to use Stitch. These providers offer free tiers with generous limits — no credit card required.\n\nFree LLM providers\n\nGoogle AI Studio offers free Gemini API access with rate limits. No credit card is required to generate an API key. Usage is subject to Google's Gemini API terms and free tier limits.\n\nFree tier includes 28+ models (DeepSeek R1, Gemma 3, Gemini Flash, and more) at 20\nrequests/min. No credit card needed. Use the **:free** model variant\nfor zero-cost access.\n\nFree tier gives you 1,000 inference credits on signup (up to 5,000 on request) with a 40 requests/min rate limit. Includes models like Nemotron, Llama, and DeepSeek. No credit card required. OpenAI-compatible endpoint.\n\nFree Speech-to-Text provider\n\nThe free plan includes 10,000 credits/month which covers both Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text (Scribe). No credit card required. Used for transcribing meeting recordings in Stitch.\n\nThese providers are independent third-party services and are not affiliated with or endorsed by Stitch. Each provider has its own terms of service, privacy policy, and data handling practices. Please review the respective provider's website for details on how your data is used.\n\nPrivacy & trust\n\nStitch runs entirely on your computer. There are no Stitch servers, no accounts, and no tracking. When you use a cloud AI provider, your prompts are sent directly to that provider's API. For fully offline use, connect a local model instead.\n\nStitch itself is a desktop app with no backend. Your files, recordings, memories, and todos are stored locally. Nothing is ever uploaded to Stitch servers. There are none.\n\nNo sign-ups, no telemetry, no analytics. Download the app and start using it immediately. Stitch doesn't know who you are and doesn't want to.\n\nWhen you use OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, your prompts go straight from your machine to their API, not through us. Review each provider's data policies to understand how they handle your requests.\n\nConnect a local model and nothing leaves your computer at all. No internet connection needed, no data shared with anyone. Complete privacy for sensitive work.\n\nEvery line of code is public on GitHub. Audit what it does, build it from source, or contribute. No black boxes, no proprietary backends, no trust required.\n\nStitch asks for your permission before doing anything sensitive. You see exactly what it plans to do and can say no. 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