Clara is a free, private AI assistant that runs on your own PC — with an Android app to talk to her anywhere. No subscription. Your chats, files, and memories never leave your machine.
Free forever · No account needed · Android 9+
Clara doesn't just answer questions — she does the work: research, files, code, scheduling, and a live browser you can watch and take over.
Ongoing conversations with an animated character you can restyle to make her yours.
Web research, files, and code — plus a live browser you can watch and take over mid-task.
Clara works while you're away and checks in with a morning note.
Sending, deleting, buying, installing — you approve on your phone with a preview first.
Talk to Clara with a local voice; dictation uses your phone's speech recognition.
Share photos and files straight from your phone into the conversation.
Set goals and get regular check-ins to keep you on track.
Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Spotify, Notion, Todoist, GitHub, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Dropbox and more.
Need extra muscle? Tap cloud models via OpenRouter — with spending caps you control.
One script sets up everything: the Bonsai 2 27B model, the agent runtime, private search, and the voice. It prints a pairing code when it's done.
Install the Android app and pair it — over home Wi-Fi, or securely from anywhere with Tailscale.
Chat, hand her tasks, approve actions on your phone. She runs on your hardware, on your terms.
Android app (Kotlin) ──Wi-Fi / Tailscale──▶ Clara Bridge (Python/FastAPI, your PC) │ Laya router decides in ~⅓ second ┌──────────┴──────────┐ quick chat real task │ │ Bonsai 2 27B (PrismML) Hermes agent (sandboxed, on your NVIDIA GPU no sudo, its own workspace)
By default, nothing leaves your PC. Not your chats, not your files, not your memories. Data only leaves your machine when you explicitly ask it to:
Clara runs a 27-billion-parameter model on your own hardware — so she asks a little more of your PC than a cloud app would.
Grab the APK from GitHub Releases. It's free, no account needed.
Tap the button above on your phone to download the APK from the official GitHub Releases page.
Android will ask you to allow installs from unknown sources. Allow it for your browser or files app — this is normal for apps installed outside the Play Store.
Open Clara, enter the pairing code shown by the PC installer, and you're in.
New to this? Unknown sources just means "apps not from the Play Store." Clara is open source — you can read every line of the app's code on GitHub before installing.
Yes. Clara is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license. No subscription, no account, no paywalled features. The optional cloud boost uses your own OpenRouter key with caps you set — that's the only thing that could ever cost money, and it's off by default.
Your chats, tasks, voice, and memories all run locally on your PC — no internet needed for those. Web search, connectors, and remote access from outside your home (via Tailscale) need a connection, naturally.
Those run on someone else's computers; your conversations live on their servers. Clara runs on your hardware. Your chats, files, and memories never leave your PC unless you explicitly send them somewhere.
The Clara app is Android 9 and up. The backend runs on an Ubuntu 24.04+ PC with an NVIDIA GPU (12 GB+ VRAM).
Absolutely — that's the point. The whole project is on GitHub under Apache 2.0: the Android app, the Python bridge, the agent setup, the router training data, and the installer.
Clara is an open-source project by The Wider Lens Initiative. Contributions are welcome on GitHub.