An on-device AI Agent that runs on your phone, open & secure
Open Minis is a free, open-source AI agent for iOS and Android that does more than chat — it gives the model a real computer to work with. A sandboxed Alpine Linux shell runs on your device: it installs packages, runs Python, edits real files and drives a browser. Around it, 30+ native bridges reach HealthKit, HomeKit, Calendar, Photos. etc. Bring your own model — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Kimi, Grok, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Keys and data never leave your phone. Free and Open Source.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I built Open Minis because every “AI assistant” on my phone could talk about my data but never actually touch it. The apps that could act were locked to one vendor’s model and one company’s cloud.
So Minis takes the opposite bet. The agent gets a real Alpine Linux sandbox running on the iPhone itself — an ARM64 fork of iSH on iOS, PRoot on Android. It has a filesystem, a package manager, Python, git, ffmpeg. On top of that, 30+ native offloads expose Apple frameworks as ordinary command-line tools, so the model reaches HealthKit or HomeKit the same way it reaches ls. Turns out models are very good at CLIs.
Three principles:
Local-first. Your keys and data stay on-device. No account, no telemetry, no server of mine in the path.
Bring your own model. Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, Grok, OpenRouter, or anything OpenAI-compatible.
Open Source, all of it, iOS and Android.
It’s free with no IAP. I’d genuinely love to hear where it breaks for you — the roadmap is mostly built out of issues people file.
About Open Minis on Product Hunt
“An on-device AI Agent that runs on your phone, open & secure”
Open Minis launched on Product Hunt on August 3rd, 2026 and earned 92 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #21 on the daily leaderboard. Open Minis is a free, open-source AI agent for iOS and Android that does more than chat — it gives the model a real computer to work with. A sandboxed Alpine Linux shell runs on your device: it installs packages, runs Python, edits real files and drives a browser. Around it, 30+ native bridges reach HealthKit, HomeKit, Calendar, Photos. etc. Bring your own model — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Kimi, Grok, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Keys and data never leave your phone. Free and Open Source.
On the analytics side, Open Minis competes within Productivity and GitHub — topics that collectively have 698.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Open Minis performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Open Minis?
Open Minis was hunted by Wang Ethan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Open Minis including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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