Askimo

Askimo is an AI desktop app for people who want to ask questions about their files and delegate work from the same place they chat. It supports local LLM backends and cloud providers, including Ollama, LM Studio, OpenAI, Claude and Gemini.

• File search: Ask questions about source code, PDFs, Office documents, emails and text files, with answers that reference relevant files from a local index.
• Coding agents and skills: Delegate tasks to Claude Code, Codex or Antigravity to read and edit project files and run commands, with reusable Markdown skills and saved workspace conversations.
• Multi-step plans: Create repeatable workflows from a plain-language description, pass results between steps, refine the output and export it as PDF or Word.
• Tools and web access: Connect MCP servers so models can query databases, call APIs or run scripts, and choose which tools each conversation can use.
• Voice conversations: Dictate messages and hear responses aloud, with offline options through built-in Whisper and local Piper or system voices, plus OpenAI speech services.

Askimo is free, open source under AGPL-3.0, and runs on macOS, Windows and Linux without an Askimo account. Local models and file indexing work offline. It also supports LocalAI, Docker AI and OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

Conversation history and file indexes stay on your machine, with no cloud sync or data collection. Cloud models require an internet connection and receive your prompts through their APIs; connected external tools can also make network requests. API keys stay in your system keychain.