Welcome to Ekorbia
Ekorbia is a native desktop integrated productivity environment for local AI models. It runs entirely on your machine — there are no cloud services, no API keys, and nothing leaves your computer unless you explicitly tell it to.
Ekorbia runs models with a bundled engine — pick one from the built-in catalog and it downloads, no separate install and no terminal. Prefer your own runtime? Ekorbia also works with Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint; you choose under Settings → Backend.
What Ekorbia gives you
- Multi-tab chat with independent conversations
- File and folder attachments with local retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) — ask questions over your own documents without uploading anything
- Images and vision — drop a screenshot or photo into a chat and ask about it (with a vision-capable model)
- A prompts library backed by plain Markdown files you can share, edit, and version-control
- Watches — ambient background jobs that monitor folders, RSS feeds, and web pages and summarize what changes
- A quick-query overlay — Spotlight-style panel that pops up over any app for fast one-off questions
- Screenshot capture — press a hotkey, drag a region, and a new chat opens with the screenshot attached
- Saving files from chat — let the model write HTML, scripts, configs, or notes straight to a folder you choose, sandboxed and atomic
- A memory file — a single Markdown file you control that Ekorbia injects into every chat as personal context
- Private chats — ephemeral sessions whose messages and attachments never touch the database
- Full-text search across chat history — find anything you’ve ever discussed
- Five themes — One Dark, One Light, Ayu Dark, Ayu Mirage, Ayu Light
Privacy and storage
Everything you do with Ekorbia stays on your machine:
- Chats are stored in a local SQLite database in your app data directory
- Prompts live as Markdown files in a folder you choose
- Attachments are indexed locally; embeddings are computed by a local model
- Watches poll the URLs and folders you configure, summarize with the local model you choose, and write notes to a local file
- Saved files from chat go to a folder you pick, never anywhere else
Nothing is sent to a third party. Models run on your machine; the only network traffic Ekorbia generates is downloading a model you choose, any URLs you explicitly point a watch at, and — if you opt into a custom endpoint — requests to the server you configured.
Where to start
If you’re new to Ekorbia, follow the Getting started section in order:
Otherwise, dip into whichever section sounds useful. Every page is self-contained, with links back to related features.