CuriousLM

CuriousLM is a private AI assistant created and published by Ebenezer Don. It runs language models on the user's own device, so chats, journal entries and documents stay local and encrypted. It is available in the browser and as an Android app, which is in open beta on Google Play.

What It Is

CuriousLM is a local-first AI assistant for thinking through decisions, drafting messages, asking questions and managing everyday tasks. After a one-time model download, it works offline. Its own model, Curious 2B, answers questions, writes, explains and reads photos, and it is trained for phone tasks such as messages, calendar and reminders. The site recommends devices with 8 GB or more of RAM, and other models can be downloaded as well.

What You Can Do With It

The site describes several workflows:

• Heat view: words the model was unsure about stay faintly underlined. Tapping one shows the near-miss alternatives with their odds, and picking one steers the answer.
• Voice mode: small on-device models listen and answer out loud.
• Journal: daily entries are encrypted on the device, CuriousLM can summarize patterns in a short letter about the week, and an optional lock can require a fingerprint, face, passkey or passcode.
• Reminders: spoken or typed reminders are saved immediately with Undo. On Android they ring at the set time and calendar events are added to the phone calendar. In a browser they appear on the start screen. Vague times prompt a question rather than a guess.
• Search: plain-word search across journal, chats and documents, and on Android across messages it has read, with the source shown.
• Pocket Wikipedia: the opening sections of 121,797 Wikipedia articles (60 MB) are stored on the device for cited factual lookups offline.

Android-Only Features

With permission granted source by source, the Android app reads notifications and calendar to show who is waiting on a reply, what is due and what is coming up, with drafted replies ready to send. A scam shield checks incoming messages on the phone without opening links and shows a short reason and a suggested action, with a Not a scam correction. Users can photograph a bill, fine or letter, and the app reads it locally, checks amounts, dates and references, explains what to do by when and can add the deadline to the calendar. Quick Settings shortcuts and a home-screen widget are also provided.

Privacy and Availability

The site states that nothing read on the phone leaves it, and that web and app chats are stored separately on the device where they were written. It describes the product as free, with no account and no ads, and notes that models can be wrong, so important details should be checked.