ragtag.fyi

A personal AI, strictly for your information.

Ragtag builds an AI from your own folders, websites and searches, then runs it entirely on your machine. No cloud, no accounts, no telemetry. Ask a character you have shaped about the stuff that is actually yours.

Free to use. macOS, Windows and Linux.

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the short version

Your knowledge, answered by a character you trust.

Not a chatbot bolted onto the cloud. A local app that turns the stuff you already own into an AI you can actually rely on.

Private by default

Everything stays on your device. Models run in-process, your files never leave, and there is no account to sign into. The only traffic is the pages and searches you ask for, and the one-time model download.

One-click ingestion

Point Ragtag at a folder, a website or a search keyword. It reads, understands and indexes it for you. No setup, no servers, and you never meet the word embedding.

Personas, not a search box

Each pool is answered by a character you have shaped: a careful, citing researcher, a patient tutor, a plain-speaking assistant. You talk with someone, not at a database.

how it works

Three steps, and none of them leave your machine.

01

Point it at your stuff

Pick folders, paste a website, or type a search. Ragtag gathers the content you choose and nothing else.

02

It reads, on your machine

Ragtag extracts and understands the text locally. You can see exactly what it kept, saved as plain markdown you can audit.

03

Chat with a persona

Ask questions in plain language. Your persona answers from your content and cites the source, so you can check it.

why Ragtag

Chat-only tools forget your files. Server tools need a technician.

Ragtag is a single desktop app. Ingestion is one click, each pool has a named persona, and folders, websites and searches are first-class from the start. Private because it runs locally, not because a policy page says so.

pricing

Free to start. Yours to keep.

The core app is free. Paid tiers unlock bigger models, voices, vision and the agentic tools. Or buy it once, forever. No subscription required to use what matters.

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for your information

The questions people actually ask.

Is it really private?

Yes. Ragtag runs the AI in-process on your machine. Your documents, your chats and your personas stay on your device. There is no account, no telemetry and no background phone-home.

Do I need an API key or a subscription to a model?

No. Ragtag downloads an open model once from Hugging Face and runs it locally. No OpenAI key, no per-message fees, nothing to wire up.

What can it read?

Folders of documents (PDF, Word, Markdown, text and more), whole websites you point it at, and the results of search keywords. Each becomes a Knowledge Pool with its own persona.

Will it run on my computer?

Ragtag ships with a small default model that runs on most modern laptops, and picks a larger one if your machine can handle it. It uses your GPU when there is one, and falls back to the processor when there is not.

Keep it between you and your files.

Download Ragtag and point it at something you care about.

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