Free software for your computer
Oikou Host
Free software that turns a Mac or Linux computer you own into your Personal Cloud. It runs each web app in its own container and keeps the data on your machine.
A new kind of app ecosystem
There’s an app for that.
Now there’s an app for you.
Meet Oikou. A home for open-source web apps that work together, understand your world, and can become exactly what you need.
Your apps. Your AI. Your computer.
What Oikou is
A Personal Cloud,
and the web apps that live there.
Oikou Host is free software you run on a computer you own. It gives you a Personal Cloud: a home for open-source web apps you find in the Catalogue. You use them from a browser or from your phone, wherever you are.
Where you find web apps
The Catalogue
Open-source web apps to add to your Personal Cloud, from its own web page. Oikou Host checks every download, and you approve what an app may do before it runs.
For iPhone
The Oikou app
Oikou is a browser for your own web apps. They run on a computer you own. Use your web apps, search, photos, files and notes there; you manage your Personal Cloud on its web page.
For Mac
Oikou for Mac
The easiest way to run Oikou Host. A menu-bar app with everything it needs inside: drag it to Applications, open it and follow the set-up.
Building an app? Apps for Oikou are built with ion, our development tool, and published to the Catalogue from there.
Developers: useion.aiMade for a world of one
Your life isn’t one-size-fits-all.
Why are your apps?
We’ve spent years adjusting our lives to fit software. Oikou flips that around. Start with a useful app, make it yours, and let it work with the rest of your world.
Make it yours.
Don’t just change the theme. Ask your AI to change how an app works. Preview it before you keep the change.
Better together.
Your workouts can inform your meal plan. Your recipes can build your grocery list. You decide what apps can share.
Actually yours.
Your web apps and their data live on your Personal Cloud, on a computer you own. Keep the freedom to make your software yours.
The Oikou philosophy
Fit for purpose.
Fit for person.
For decades, software has been designed around what it does. We think it should be designed around who uses it.
Your workflows. Your preferences. Your context. Apps that adapt to you, not the other way around.
Not just customizable. Malleable.
Don’t like how an app works?
Change the app.
Imagine being able to ask for the feature you wish existed, instead of waiting for a product team to build it.
My HabitsConcept · fictional data
- Read for 20 minutes
- Morning workout
- Drink more water
- Practice guitar
“Make my streaks weekly instead of daily.”
Weekly streak · 3 sessions a weekStreak: 3 weeks
Your change is ready to preview.
Keep editingKeep change
Your AI is your designer
Say what you want.
See it come to life.
Oikou uses the AI you already have to create a private draft of your change. Try it with your data. Keep it, refine it, or discard it. No coding required for everyday tweaks.
Your personal version is yours to keep refining as your needs change.
The Catalogue
A whole world of apps.
One home.
Start with useful, open-source web apps for everyday life, work, and whatever you’re into. Add them to your Personal Cloud from the Catalogue, then make them your own.
Training
Workouts and personal records
Recipes
Meal planning your way
Grocery
Lists built from your meals
Habits
Streaks that work for you
Tasks
Everything you need to do
Ledger
Invoices and expenses
Reel
Cut and caption video
Forge
Manage your 3D prints
Illustrative selection from the Catalogue. Availability may vary.
Built around you
Your apps can know you.
Only if you say so.
Context with consent.
Give each app fine-grained access to the information it needs. Approve connections, see what was read, and revoke permissions whenever you want.
Your AI subscription. Not another API bill.
Use supported AI subscriptions you already pay for to customize your apps, rather than having to set up API keys and pay per token. Supported providers, plan eligibility and usage limits apply.
Your Personal Cloud, everywhere
Your own web apps.
On your phone.
Oikou is a browser for your own web apps. They run on a computer you own. Use your web apps on the go, while the computer your Personal Cloud runs on does the heavy lifting. Device access depends on permissions and platform support.
Take your apps with you.
Your web apps and their connected context, wherever you are. They aren’t confined to the computer that runs them.
More than a phone can do alone.
The computer your Personal Cloud runs on does the heavy lifting, so your web apps can do more than a phone could alone, with permissions that keep you in control.
Getting started
Make it yours.
Run it yourself.
Oikou Host is free to run yourself. Install it on a Mac or Linux computer you already own, and that computer becomes your Personal Cloud: the home for personal apps that adapt to you.
Free
Run it yourself.
Oikou Host is free software for a Mac, or a Linux computer running Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora, that stays on. Your web apps and their data stay on hardware you control.
iPhone
Use it anywhere.
Oikou is a browser for your own web apps. They run on a computer you own. Open them, search across them, and see your photos, files and notes from your phone.
- 01 / Install
Set up your Personal Cloud.
Install Oikou Host on a Mac or Linux computer you own. It is free to run yourself.
- 02 / Explore
Find your web apps.
Browse the Catalogue from your Personal Cloud’s web page and decide which apps can share context.
- 03 / Personalize
Make them yours.
Use your supported AI subscription to adapt your apps to how you live and work.
Software should fit you.
Not the other way around. Be among the first to experience a more personal, open, and malleable world of apps.
Get Oikou
Oikou Host is free to run yourself · For Mac, Linux and iPhone