{"slug": "show-hn-crux-a-personal-ai-on-your-computer-you-can-reach-from-anywhere", "title": "Show HN: Crux, a personal AI on your computer you can reach from anywhere", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# Making AIPersonal\n\nCrux is an AI personal assistant that works across your desktop, files, apps, and workflow.\n\nYour chats, files, and context stay local to you, so your data stays yours.\n\n## Intelligence, always at your fingertips\n\nCrux floats above every app. One shortcut summons it. Anywhere, over anything.\n\n`Ctrl`+` Shift`+` Space`*on Windows*\n\n`⌘`+` Shift`+` Space`*on Mac*\n\nDone. Rebuilt the hero on an 8pt grid, unified everything to one accent, and let the layout breathe. Refresh and compare.\n\nOpen **Preferences → Appearance**. I've circled the toggle for you. Flip it and the whole app goes dark.\n\nAn assistant that belongs to you. Crux learns how you work, grows with every interaction, and keeps everything on your machine.\n\nPersonal\n\n### Built around you\n\nIt shapes itself around the way you work.\n\nSelf-evolving\n\n### Grows with you\n\nIt grows with you and gets better every time you use it.\n\nLocal-first\n\n### Local by design\n\nEverything it knows stays on your machine with you.\n\nRun Crux from anywhere. Connect your messaging channels or your email inbox and drive your agent remotely while you are away.\n\nWorks with everything you already use. Crux plugs into the tools your day already runs on.\n\n- Telegram\n- Excalidraw\n- Gmail\n- Drive\n- Docs\n- Sheets\n- Slides\n- Calendar\n- Chrome\n- Browser Use\n\n## Download Crux\n\n**$10, one time.** Yours for good, on Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows.\n\nSecure checkout · Code expires in 5 minutes · No spam", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-crux-a-personal-ai-on-your-computer-you-can-reach-from-anywhere", "canonical_source": "https://qunt.in", "published_at": "2026-07-17 14:26:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-17 14:51:29.692765+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-agents", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Crux", "Telegram", "Gmail", "Google Drive", "Google Docs", "Google Sheets", "Google Slides", "Google Calendar"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-crux-a-personal-ai-on-your-computer-you-can-reach-from-anywhere", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-crux-a-personal-ai-on-your-computer-you-can-reach-from-anywhere.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-crux-a-personal-ai-on-your-computer-you-can-reach-from-anywhere.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-crux-a-personal-ai-on-your-computer-you-can-reach-from-anywhere.jsonld"}}