row-bot

row-bot is a speech (TTS/STT) tool - Row-Bot - Personal AI Sovereignty. A local-first AI assistant with integrated tools, a personal knowledge graph, voice, vision, shell, browser automation, scheduled tasks, health tracking, and messaging channels. Run locally via Ollama or add opt-in cloud models. Your data stays on your machine.

Overview

Row-Bot is a local-first desktop AI assistant for reasoning through work, orchestrating tools and models, and getting durable tasks done on your machine. The name is literal: Reason. Orchestrate. Work.

It gives you chat, memory, tools, workflows, Developer Studio, Designer Studio, Smart Skills, Skills Hub, Custom Tools, plugins, messaging channels, realtime voice, and flexible model routing while keeping durable data local.

Bring the model path that fits the job: local models through Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI, xAI, MiniMax, OpenRouter, Ollama Cloud, ChatGPT / Codex subscription models, or custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints such as oMLX, LM Studio, vLLM, llama.cpp, LocalAI, LiteLLM, and SGLang. Row-Bot keeps provider identity, model capabilities, context limits, and chat-only fallbacks explicit so local, hosted, and self-hosted models can coexist without surprise routing.

The Row-Bot app has no account system, no Row-Bot-hosted server, and no telemetry pipeline. Provider keys and subscription tokens are stored in the OS credential store when available.

Download the latest installer from GitHub Releases. Windows and macOS use one-click installers. Linux has a one-line user installer.

1. Download the latest Windows installer. 2. Run it. The installer bundles the embedded Python runtime, app source, and Python dependencies. Ollama is optional and only needed for local models. 3. Launch Row-Bot from the Start Menu or desktop shortcut.

row-bot is open-source, written primarily in Python, with 1,245 GitHub stars under the Apache 2.0 license. The latest release is v4.0.1 (2026-06-06).

Key capabilities

From the project's documentation:

• Remember that my mom's birthday is March 15
• Search for recent papers on transformer architectures
• Read report.pdf in my workspace
• Run git status on my project
• Create a six-slide pitch deck for my startup
• Show my headache trends this month

Install

A quick way to get started (always check the official docs for the latest):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/siddsachar/row-bot/main/installer/install-linux.sh | bash

How it fits a local-AI stack

row-bot runs on your own hardware, so pair it with a model and a GPU sized to your needs. Use the VRAM calculator to pick a model that fits your card, and see what you can run for hardware guidance. Related speech (TTS/STT) tools in the directory:

• Kokoro TTS
• Miso One / MisoTTS
• Piper TTS
• Sherpa Onnx

Sources

• Source code & docs: siddsachar/row-bot
• Official website: https://row-bot.ai

Stats from GitHub, 2026-06-08.