LOKEI
Private AI for the people in the room.
Lokei Studio $14.99 one-time · Lokei AI free · No subscription.
Private AI for the people in the room.
Lokei Studio $14.99 one-time · Lokei AI free · No subscription.
New — Lokei Rooms
Rooms turns a Mac, iPhone, or iPad into a private AI that everyone nearby can share — over your own Wi‑Fi. One person hosts, everyone joins in seconds with a code or QR. No account. No cloud. Nothing leaves the room.
Answered on the host's device · streamed live to every screen · secured with TLS on your local network
A patient tutor for the whole class, hosted on the teacher's device. It guides students toward answers instead of handing them over — and runs quiz rounds with hidden answers it checks and scores. No student data ever leaves the room.
An AI game master that runs trivia, story adventures, and party games — keeping score by name and keeping everyone in. Hidden-answer rounds mean nobody can copy; the reveal lands for everyone at once.
One private AI in the meeting — legal, medical, and engineering room modes with honest, professional framing. Capture decisions, tasks, and files into a shared workspace that never touches a server.
The host shows a QR code or a six-digit room code — classmates and friends are in within seconds. The host approves who gets in (or lets the code auto-admit a whole class at once).
Talk to each other like any group chat — the AI stays quiet unless you mention @lokei or ask it directly. Hosts can switch on private messages between members, with everyone told when the rules change.
Rooms are discoverable only on your Wi‑Fi, every connection is TLS-encrypted with a key derived from the room code, and the AI answers on the host's own hardware. There is no server to trust — none exists.
Host from a Mac, iPhone, or iPad · in Lokei Studio and Lokei AI today
Lokei Studio for Mac — available now
Built for focus, speed, and local-first privacy. Lokei Studio works quietly in the background so you can stay in flow.
Use Apple Intelligence on supported Macs or local Ollama models for private, on-device work. Lokei collects no conversations, files, analytics, or account data.
Get answers in seconds without breaking your workflow. Lokei Studio lives in your menu bar, ready the instant you need it — no app switching, no loading screens.
Read answers as they're generated, not after a long wait. Responses stream word by word from the backend you choose.
Copy-paste working code straight from the chat. Code renders with full syntax highlighting and one-click copy — Swift, Python, JavaScript and more.
Get better results for any task with purpose-built AI modes. Switch between Code Helper, Debug Mode, Writing Assistant, Brainstorm — or create your own.
Pick Apple Intelligence on supported devices, local Ollama on your Mac, or — on iPhone — reach your Mac's open-source models over your own Wi-Fi. The active backend is always shown clearly.
Find the right Ollama model for your Mac in seconds. Browse, compare, and download models right inside Lokei Studio — no Terminal needed. Every model is rated for your RAM.
Stop repeating yourself every conversation. Tell Lokei about your project once and it remembers — every response is already tailored to your work.
Pick up right where you left off. Every conversation is saved automatically with smart titles — browse, resume, or export anytime.
Need more room? Pop Lokei into a full resizable window with a sidebar for deep work. Collapse back to the menu bar when you're done.
Lokei AI for iPhone & iPad — available now
Lokei AI is a full standalone chat app — not a remote control. On supported iPhones it runs Apple Intelligence on-device. Anywhere else, it streams from the world's most powerful open-source models running on your own Mac, over your own Wi-Fi. Your prompts never touch a Lokei server.
On iPhone 15 Pro, the iPhone 16 family, and the iPhone 17 family, Lokei AI taps Apple's on-device foundation model. Zero network. Instant cold-start. Nothing leaves your phone.
Point Lokei AI at the Ollama or LM Studio server on your Mac and your iPhone gets unlimited access to 70B-class open-source models — Llama, Qwen, Mistral, Gemma — without any cloud, subscription, or rate limit.
Out of the box the address bar accepts only localhost, .local, and private Wi-Fi addresses — public URLs are rejected. Pointing Lokei AI anywhere beyond your network takes a deliberate opt-in, and the built-in Privacy Audit always shows which mode you're in.
Run a fast small model on your phone for everyday questions. When the on-device model sounds unsure, Lokei AI quietly asks a larger model on your Mac for a second opinion and shows that answer instead. The trade-off between speed and depth, finally automatic.
Speak naturally — Lokei AI uses iOS speech recognition in on-device-only mode. Your audio is never uploaded, not even to Apple.
Attach photos, screenshots, PDFs, or code. Export any conversation to PDF, share it through the system share sheet, or scrub it with one tap.
Rooms works both ways on iPhone and iPad — join a Room someone else is hosting, or host one yourself so everyone nearby shares your device's AI over your own Wi-Fi. No Mac required.
Lokei AI is free and fully usable without it. Pro is a one-time unlock — never a subscription — for Shortcuts and Siri integration, an MCP client for local tool servers, a saved prompt library, and advanced Markdown, JSON, and watermark-free PDF exports.
Setup
On supported Macs, start with Apple Intelligence for private on-device responses. Prefer open-source local models? Choose Ollama instead.
Download Lokei Studio from the Mac App Store, or Lokei AI for iPhone & iPad from the App Store. Onboarding guides you through Apple Intelligence or Ollama setup based on what your device supports.
Apple Intelligence needs no model download inside Lokei. For Ollama, open Settings → AI & Models to browse and download local models rated for your Mac's RAM.
Click the Lokei leaf in your menu bar and start chatting. Local and on-device backends keep your work on your Mac; remote providers are only used if you configure one.
Lokei Studio for Mac and Lokei AI for iPhone & iPad are both available today.