Coming soon to macOS and Linux

Hobbots

Little helpers that do your chores while you sleep.

Stop being the messenger between your AIs. Summon hobs, give them a job, and they split the work, talk to each other and ask you before anything risky. Open source and free forever.

One email when Hobbots is ready for macOS and Linux. No spam. To be removed, write to aldric@hobbots.app.

Watch the 60-second teaser

Click a hob to say hi.

Watch the teaser

One night in the workshop

Hand one job to Aldric before bed. While you sleep, the hobs split it up, pass notes and ask before anything risky. In the morning it is done, tested and verified.

60 seconds · captions on screen, so it works with the sound off

What's coming

A whole workshop of helpers, not one more chat box

Each hob has its own name, look, instructions and threads. They run on your own computer with the AI you already use.

Summon your own hobs

Give each hob a name, a look and a job: a scribe for email, a researcher, a coder. Every hob keeps its own threads, so you pick up where you left off.

Hobs hand work to each other

Ask Aldric for something big. He passes parts to Rook, Sage and Pip, and the Quest shows who is doing what and who is waiting on whom. No copy-pasting between chats.

Tinker wants to run pnpm test in hobbots/

Nothing risky without you

Set each action to Allow, Ask or Never, and every hob works inside a sandbox. Anything set to Ask comes to you as a plain request: what, where and who asked. Try it above.

Wake up to finished chores

Close the window and Hobbots keeps going from the menu bar or system tray. In the morning, Home shows what got done, what is still running and what needs you.

…and what the hobs are dreaming of next

  • Later
    RoomsGroup chats where several hobs and you work in one place.
  • Later
    CharmsConnect Slack, Google Drive and any MCP server, granted per hob.
  • Later
    RoutinesHobs that do recurring chores on a schedule.
  • Later
    MemoryHobs that remember what matters to you between threads.
  • Later
    Approvals on your phoneAnswer an Ask from bed, the first thing after launch.
Your AI, your computer

Not tied to one AI, or one computer

Hobbots launches on macOS and Linux, with Windows and a phone app after that. It starts with Claude and opens up to more AI providers, so each hob can pick its own brain.

At launch

macOS

A signed app for macOS 13 Ventura or later, on Apple silicon and Intel.

At launch

Linux

AppImage and .deb for x64 and arm64. Or run it from source in your browser.

After launch

Windows

The same app for Windows 10 and 11, on x64 and arm64.

After launch

iPhone and Android

Check on your hobs and answer approvals from your phone.

AI providers

Claude first. Each hob can use a different one.
  • ClaudeFirst
  • ChatGPTNext
  • GeminiNext
  • GrokNext
  • Local modelsNext
  • Any OpenAI-compatible keyNext
Roll your first hob

Every hob is one of a kind

Hats, gear, faces and beards come from a seed, so your hob looks the same on every device. Roll until one feels right, then save its spot.

One email when Hobbots is ready for macOS and Linux. No spam. To be removed, write to aldric@hobbots.app.

Piptoadstool cap, a spellbook
Hob color
Open source, free foreverApache 2.0 and free forever. Read the code, file an issue or send a pull request.
Your work stays on your computerThreads and hobs live in a local folder on your machine. No Hobbots cloud account.
Bring the AI you already useHobs start on Claude, with your own plan. More providers follow, so you are never locked to one.