No API keys, no subscriptions, no metered usage. Ever.
100% free — no API keys, no subscriptionsAlpha — in active development
Your own AI team, working for you.
Free. Local. One app.
Create AI agents that chat, form teams, follow an org chart, and report to you on Discord — all running on your computer with free local models. No API keys. No subscriptions. No cloud.
macOS (Apple Silicon) · Windows 10/11 · Open source (AGPL-3.0) · all download options
- ✓ $0 — powered by free local models
- ✓ Your data never leaves your machine
- ✓ No terminal, ever
- ✓ Open source
Free by default
Free actually means free
Evano Studio runs on free local models through Ollama. Your hardware is the only thing you bring.
Models, chats, documents, and images live on your machine.
AGPL-3.0 licensed — read it, fork it, improve it.
One app, both platforms, the same free experience.
What you can do
Everything you need to run local AI agents
A simple desktop control center for building AI agents that work for your business — all running locally.
Create AI employees
Spin up agents from templates — give them a name, an emoji, and a mission. They run on free local models (Gemma via Ollama). No code, no terminal.
Teams that hand off work
Chain agents into workflows: one researches, the next writes, the next reviews — even passing a working file from agent to agent.
A real org chart
Give agents managers. Ask the boss for something big and it delegates to its team — enforced as real permissions, not a drawing.
Watch them work
The Office view shows your agents live: at their desk when they're busy, in the break room when they're idle.
Your team on Discord
Connect each agent as its own Discord bot with a guided flow — then manage your whole AI team from your phone.
They learn your business
Import your documents into a local knowledge base (ChromaDB). Agents answer from them in the app and on Discord.
Tidy files (AFM)
Agent File Management gives every agent a folder you choose — everything they create lands there, organized and easy to back up.
Local image generation
Agents craft prompts and generate images through a local ComfyUI — on your GPU, with no paid image APIs.
Routines & calendar
Schedule a single agent or a whole team workflow (once, daily, weekly) and manage everything on a visual calendar.
How it works
From zero to your first local agent
No cloud accounts, no API keys. Everything runs on your computer.
- 1
Install Ollama
Install the free Ollama runtime and pull a local model. We recommend Gemma 4 when available; Qwen, Llama, Mistral, and DeepSeek also work.
- 2
Open Evano Studio
Launch the desktop app. It detects Ollama and your installed models — no terminal, no config files.
- 3
Create an agent
Give your agent a role, choose a model, and turn on only the tools and permissions it needs.
- 4
Put it to work
Chat, draft documents, search your knowledge base, generate images, or schedule routines on a calendar.
For small businesses
Create local AI employees for your business
Evano Studio is a control center, not a developer tool. Build AI agents that handle repeatable work — privately, on your own hardware.
Knowledge assistant
Answer staff questions from your own handbooks and documents using local retrieval.
Document drafter
Generate proposals, summaries, and product descriptions saved straight to your workspace.
Marketing helper
Turn ideas into social copy and image prompts — and images, if you run ComfyUI.
Onboarding buddy
Help new hires get answers from an internal knowledge base, on demand.
Each example is just an agent configuration — a model, a role, and a set of permitted tools. Nothing leaves your machine.
Local documents & RAG
Your knowledge base, on your machine
Import your own documents into a local knowledge base powered by ChromaDB. Evano Studio chunks and embeds them locally, so your agents can answer questions grounded in your content — using retrieval-augmented generation.
- ✓ChromaDB local only — no Chroma Cloud, no paid vector database.
- ✓Local embeddings — your documents never leave the device.
- ✓Agents search only the knowledge bases you allow.
Local image generation
Images, generated locally and optionally
Agents help you craft strong image prompts. When you want to turn those prompts into pictures, Evano Studio can connect to your own local ComfyUI instance — no paid image APIs, no cloud services.
- ✓Optional & local — ComfyUI is an external service you install and run yourself.
- ✓No paid image API — ever.
- ✓Generated images are saved to your local workspace.
Prompt generation works on its own. Image rendering simply stays disabled until you configure ComfyUI.
Visual routines calendar
Schedule agents from a calendar
Turn repeatable agent tasks into routines and manage them from a visual calendar. See what is scheduled, what ran, and what to expect next — in plain language, no cron syntax.
- ✓One-time, daily, weekly, and monthly schedules.
- ✓Run history with clear success, failed, and missed states.
- ✓Routines run while the app is open — Evano Studio is not a background cloud service.
Open source & free
Built in the open, free by default
Evano Studio is an open-source project that wraps a professional experience around free, local, open tools. No paid AI API, no Chroma Cloud, no paid vector DB, and no paid image API are required by default.
What you need (locally)
- ✓Your own computer — local AI runs on your hardware.
- ✓Ollama and at least one local model (Gemma 4 recommended).
- ✓ComfyUI — optional, only for local image generation.
The local stack
- •Ollama — Local AI runtime for running models on your machine.
- •Gemma 4 — Recommended local model when available (others supported too).
- •SQLite — Stores local app data — agents, routines, and history.
- •ChromaDB (local) — Powers the local knowledge base / RAG. No Chroma Cloud.
- •ComfyUI (local) — Optional, user-run local image generation.
FAQ
Common questions
A few of the things people ask most.
Is Evano Studio really free?
Yes. There are no paid APIs, no cloud subscription, and no usage metering. You provide your own computer and free, local, open tools (Ollama and at least one local model). Optional image generation uses your own ComfyUI install.
Does my data go to the cloud?
No, not by default. Models, documents, embeddings, chats, and logs stay on your machine. Nothing is uploaded unless you explicitly choose to.
Do I need to use the terminal?
No. Evano Studio is a desktop control center, not a developer tool. Installing Ollama is a normal app install, and the app guides you from there. It never runs commands silently on your behalf.
Which models can I use?
Any model you run through Ollama. We recommend Gemma 4 when it is available on your system, and also support Qwen, Llama, Mistral, and DeepSeek distill models.
Hire your first AI employee today
Free forever, running on your own Mac or Windows PC. Set up in minutes — the app guides you through everything.