EmptyOS

EmptyOS

A private workspace where AI helps you think, write, and stay organized — using your own notes, on your own machine.
Try the live demo → View on GitHub → Get Started Architecture

The demo link signs you in to a public sandbox with sample notes — feel free to break things, but don't put real data in it.

Generated 2026-05-24 from live system state.

82
Apps
7
Capabilities
23
Plugins
Screenshots
System topology — every app and event in one live graph
System topology — every app and event in one live graph
Voice assistant — talk to it, type to it, hands-free or tap-to-talk
Voice assistant — talk to it, type to it, hands-free or tap-to-talk
Focus timer — 25-minute sessions with a distraction-free fullscreen mode
Focus timer — 25-minute sessions with a distraction-free fullscreen mode
Journal — daily mood, free-write, and a year-at-a-glance heatmap
Journal — daily mood, free-write, and a year-at-a-glance heatmap
Model Bench — benchmark every AI provider on real tasks side-by-side
Model Bench — benchmark every AI provider on real tasks side-by-side
🧠

Ask AI anywhere

Every app can write, search, and answer for you. Use a free local model when you want privacy, a cloud model when you want power — the system picks the right one and tells you what it used.

📂

Your notes stay yours

Everything lives in plain text files on your computer. Open them in any editor. Back them up however you like. Walk away from EmptyOS and you still have all your writing.

🌱

It grows with you

The system watches itself: noticing what you use, suggesting where to clean up, adding small features as you ask for them. You shape it; it doesn't shape you.

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Works offline, talks to anything

Runs on your laptop without an internet connection. Plug in extras when you want them — voice, image generation, phone notifications, a code assistant — each one optional.

🖥

Every feature has a screen

You can do anything from a browser tab. Keyboard shortcuts, themes, live updates. No command line needed unless you want one.

Latest Updates
The audit tools clean themselves up
2026-04-27 · 5 min
We finally pointed our own tooling at our own design drift, ran the demo through a real visitor's eyes, and shipped fourteen public releases in a single sitting.
devlog emptyos design-language release
Boards discovers what it really is
2026-04-26 · 4 min
We started building a Visual Work OS. We ended up building a database substrate every other app gets to use for free.
devlog emptyos architecture boards
Splitting the big apps before they get bigger
2026-04-26 · 4 min
Two apps had grown past the point of fitting comfortably in one file. We split them into orchestrator plus pure modules, kept the public API identical, and watched the test suite stay green.
devlog emptyos refactor sdk