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Show HN: Crux, a personal AI on your computer you can reach from anywhere

Crux, a new AI personal assistant, launches as a one-time $10 purchase for Mac and Windows. The assistant operates locally on the user's machine, integrates with apps like Telegram and Gmail, and can be accessed remotely. Its local-first design ensures user data remains private.

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Show HN: Crux, a personal AI on your computer you can reach from anywhere
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Crux is an AI personal assistant that works across your desktop, files, apps, and workflow.

Your chats, files, and context stay local to you, so your data stays yours.

Intelligence, always at your fingertips #

Crux floats above every app. One shortcut summons it. Anywhere, over anything.

Ctrl+ Shift+ Spaceon Windows

+ Shift+ Spaceon Mac

Done. Rebuilt the hero on an 8pt grid, unified everything to one accent, and let the layout breathe. Refresh and compare.

Open Preferences → Appearance. I've circled the toggle for you. Flip it and the whole app goes dark.

An assistant that belongs to you. Crux learns how you work, grows with every interaction, and keeps everything on your machine.

Personal

Built around you

It shapes itself around the way you work.

Self-evolving

Grows with you

It grows with you and gets better every time you use it.

Local-first

Local by design

Everything it knows stays on your machine with you.

Run Crux from anywhere. Connect your messaging channels or your email inbox and drive your agent remotely while you are away.

Works with everything you already use. Crux plugs into the tools your day already runs on.

  • Telegram
  • Excalidraw
  • Gmail
  • Drive
  • Docs
  • Sheets
  • Slides
  • Calendar
  • Chrome
  • Browser Use

Download Crux #

$10, one time. Yours for good, on Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows.

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