What is LocalIdea
LocalIdea is a creation environment powered by local artificial intelligence. Unlike traditional AI services, it doesn't connect to any server: you download a model once and from that moment everything works without the internet.
How it works
In every project you have three always-synchronized views: Assistant (you talk, it builds, with a live preview beside you), Code (if you want to get hands-on, every change is protected by Approve/Reject) and Flow (connect pages together with one click, map-style).
- Chat: converse with the assistant, with memory and personality.
- Apps: a three-stage pipeline develops and checks them.
- Websites: connected pages, live preview and zip download.
- Everything offline: zero cloud, no servers, maximum privacy.
Who it's for
LocalIdea is designed to make software creation accessible to everyone, while respecting privacy and making the most of your hardware.
- People with an idea but no coding skills: just describe it.
- Students and self-learners: a free laboratory to learn in.
- Privacy-conscious users: no data ever leaves the PC.
- Older computers: the engine adapts to your hardware.
- Developers: a local copilot with diff approval.
Why is LocalIdea fast where others aren't?
The LocalIdea optimization engine measures your real hardware — memory, disk, processor — and custom-builds the way the AI is loaded and executed. Every model you add is analyzed and, if needed, automatically transformed into a version suited to your computer.
The result: drastically reduced response times, zero configuration, no freezes even on machines with little memory. How we do it is our secret; that it works, you'll see for yourself.
Developers
LocalIdea is designed, developed and maintained by its founders, Simone Mazzarà and Nicolò Pacelli, together with the LocalIdea team — an independent group that believes software creation should be private, local and accessible to everyone. Every part of the project, from the optimization engine to the assistant to this website, is built in-house, with no external companies and no third-party analytics.
Want to get in touch? Write to us at localidea.support@gmail.com.
Why we do it
"Today, creating software means trading your data for access. Talking to cloud AIs means accepting that every one of your ideas gets analyzed. We created LocalIdea to bring control back to your computer. No login, no telemetry. The future of software is local."