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Aura
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All-in-one digital-safety subscription protecting families from identity theft, fraud and online threats, with parental controls.
2.5M visits/mo762 saves
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PicoClaw
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Ultra-lightweight, self-hosted open-source AI assistant in Go that runs on sub-$10 hardware like Raspberry Pi with under 10MB RAM.
81K visits/mo
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Jan.ai
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Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.
378K visits/mo609 saves
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Kimi Chat
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Kimi is Moonshot AI's conversational assistant known for long-context chat, coding help, and agentic tasks.
103K visits/mo
Pricing
Kids: $10/mo billed annually
Individual: $12/mo billed annually (1 adult)
Couple: $22/mo billed annually (2 adults)
Family: $32/mo billed annually (5 adults)
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Core features
- ✦Identity theft protection with insurance
- ✦3-bureau credit monitoring and lock
- ✦Antivirus, VPN and password manager
- ✦Online data removal from brokers
- ✦Parental controls and safe-gaming alerts
- ✦Dark-web and financial-fraud alerts
- ✦Single self-contained binary requiring under 10MB RAM
- ✦Sub-1-second startup even on low-power processors
- ✦Support for 16+ chat channels including Telegram, Discord, Slack, WeCom
- ✦Compatibility with multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, etc.)
- ✦Runs on Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, ARM64, x86_64, Android, and Docker
- ✦Self-hosted design keeping data and configuration local
- ✦Gateway/API mode for connecting to chat platforms via MCP protocol
- ✦Run open-source LLMs locally
- ✦Connect to online models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
- ✦Private, offline-capable AI chat
- ✦Open source and self-hostable
- ✦Model library via Hugging Face
- ✦Cross-platform desktop app
- ✦Conversational AI assistant
- ✦Long-context document understanding
- ✦Coding assistance
- ✦Agent and plugin capabilities
- ✦Web and mobile app access
Use cases
- →Protecting against identity theft
- →Monitoring family credit and finances
- →Keeping kids safe online
- →Removing personal data from broker sites
- →Running a private AI assistant on minimal or embedded hardware
- →Local code assistance that keeps proprietary code off the cloud
- →Home automation and personal task scheduling via chat bots
- →Privacy-conscious users wanting self-hosted AI on low-cost devices
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →Answering questions and research
- →Summarizing long documents
- →Writing and editing help
- →Coding support
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