Faraday.dev
It’s a new way to access your local AI models from anywhere, without sacrificing privacy or performance. Simply leave the Faraday Desktop App running in the background on your Mac or PC at home, and you’ll be able to spin up LLMs, chat with custom AI characters, and more from the convenience of your mobile browser. Everything still runs on your own hardware, so it’s 100% free to use.
Tethering is completely opt-in, not enabled by default, and can be turned off anytime. The desktop app can always be used without an internet connection.
Faraday is a desktop app for creating custom AI chatbots (also known as characters) powered by LLMs that run locally on your Mac or PC. The installation process is dead-simple and requires no configuration; local chat “just works” out of the box. Faraday can run on CPU with only 8GB of RAM, and if you have a GPU, the app will automatically use it to speed things up.
Tethering extends all the capabilities of Faraday’s desktop experience to mobile, by allowing you to utilize your computer’s local resources remotely from a web browser. That means you can access all your existing models, characters, and chat conversations on the go, while still preserving the fundamental advantages of running Faraday on local hardware:
