A silverback gorilla stands with arms crossed, immovable, in a dark server room ringed by CCTV cameras, cracked monitors and streams of data, lit by warm gold.

We didn't sell out, so you don't get trawled out.

The gorilla in the room.

Every other tool ships your voice, your screen and your work off to someone else's servers, phones home, and charges you a subscription to be the product. Local Gorilla just will not move.

See the toolsSee where we stand

Privacy is a category, not a feature.

Everything the extractive tools do by shipping your data away, we do on-device. That is not a checkbox on a settings page. It is the whole architecture, and it unlocks things the incumbents structurally cannot offer: private learning, offline, whisper-quiet.

You pay once, or you don't pay.

No subscription surveillance. No account. No login wall between you and your own work. You are not the product, so there is nothing to harvest and nothing to sell.

Built for the ones who noticed.

For people already tired of leaky SaaS: the tools that leak data, phone home, fragment one job across three products, and rent you your own files. Local Gorilla is the answer that has been sitting in the corner the whole time.

What the market does with your data.

Most of the tools you use every day are free or cheap for one reason: you are the inventory. Your voice trains their models. Your screen recordings sit on their servers. Your documents get scanned to target you. The business model is extraction, and it is dressed up as convenience.

The board below compares real tools on the facts in their own public docs. Cited, dated, corrections welcome.

Where your tools actually stand.

The facts, straight off each tool's own public docs: does it run on your device, can you own it outright, does it force an account, is the source open, and how it charges. Sortable. Dated. Corrections welcome.

Where your tools actually stand.
my_voice_Local GorillaOn-device dictation. The audio never leaves your machine. Monthly, yearly, or own it once. First week free, no card required.✓✓✓✕Own or subscribelocalgorilla.appas of 2026-07-21
my_eye_Local GorillaLocal screen recorder. Zero network egress. Monthly, yearly, or own it once. First week free, no card required.✓✓✓✕Own or subscribelocalgorilla.appas of 2026-07-21
code_mate_Local GorillaOpen source (MIT), free. No backend, no analytics.✓✓✓✓Freegithub.comas of 2026-07-19
Context CopilotLocal GorillaBYO key, stored locally, calling the provider direct. Free. Your data never leaves your machine.✓✓✓✕Freelocalgorilla.appas of 2026-07-19
LoomCloud video platform, now Atlassian-owned.✕✕✕✕Free + subscriptionatlassian.comas of 2026-07-19
Otter.aiCloud processing and storage on AWS, per its policy.✕✕✕✕Free + subscriptionotter.aias of 2026-07-19
Wispr FlowIts policy: transcription always happens in the cloud.✕✕✕✕Free + subscriptionwisprflow.aias of 2026-07-19
CamtasiaInstalled desktop app, runs on-device. Subscription only.✓✕✕✕Subscriptiontechsmith.comas of 2026-07-19

The tools.

Local by construction. Nothing leaves your machine.

my_voice_
Dictation, on-deviceComing soon

my_voice_

Local Gorilla native

Your own private Wispr Flow. Hold a key, speak, and your words paste into whatever you are typing into. The audio never leaves the Mac.

  • Local Whisper transcription, 100% on-device
  • AU or US English spelling lock
  • Custom vocabulary: your names and brands, nailed
  • Voice commands: new line, scratch that, send it
  • Private word-learning that gets sharper the more you use it

macOS (Apple Silicon)

$5.30/moor own it for $107launch priceFirst week free, no card
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Why local beats Wispr Flow
my_eye_
Screen recording + editing, on-deviceComing soon

my_eye_

Local Gorilla native

Record your screen with a movable camera bubble, then reframe, stack and stitch clips. No upload, no cloud, no telemetry. Ever.

  • Local screen recorder with an all-Spaces camera bubble
  • Reframe, crop, trim and fade in one window
  • Side-by-side, stacked and picture-in-picture layouts
  • Multi-clip timeline with crossfades
  • Zero network egress by construction

macOS (Apple Silicon)

$8.08/moor own it for $170launch priceFirst week free, no card
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Why local beats Loom
Context Copilot
BYO-key AI on any webpageIn the Chrome Web Store

Context Copilot

Browser

Bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI key, stored locally in your browser. Summarise, rewrite, translate or chat with any page as context. No subscription, no server, no account.

  • Your key, stored locally, calling the provider direct
  • 10 built-in skills plus a custom-skill builder
  • Voice input and persisted chat history
  • Zero analytics, zero telemetry, zero tracking

Chrome / Chromium

Freefree, BYO key
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Why local beats the cloud assistants
code_mate_
A coding glossary in your flowComing soon

code_mate_

Browser

Right-click any coding term on any page for an instant definition, a code example, and links to the official docs. Four explanation depths, from ELI14 to full technical. Open source, no backend.

  • 20+ curated terms with four-tier explanations
  • Right-click trigger, no new tab, no losing your place
  • Optional BYO-key AI fallback for unknown terms
  • Every line public and unminified on GitHub

Chrome / Chromium

Freeopen source core, Pro $3.50/mo optional
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Why look-it-up should stay local
KB_Bridge
Your second brain across the webFree forever

KB_Bridge

Browser

The free glue between code_mate_ and Context Copilot. Save a snippet anywhere you read, replay it into your next AI session. No backend, no third-party services.

  • Capture from code_mate_, replay in Context Copilot
  • Everything stays in your browser
  • Free forever, no paid tier

Chrome / Chromium

Freeforever
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Why your snippets stay yours
More coming:my_demo_ demo capture, on-devicemy_words_ local transcription, on-device
The my_voice_ overlay floating mid-dictation in its Matrix skin: green glyph rain falling through a live waveform, with Local Gorilla listening on-device.my_voice_ overlay. Matrix skin. Captured live, mid-dictation.
Skin it to your brand

Your voice. Your colours. Your flavour.

This is my_voice_ mid-dictation, wearing its Matrix skin. Ten visual styles ship in the box, from a clean waveform to glyph rain, and every one of them retints to any colour you pick. Match it to your brand palette, your desktop, your mood: the overlay becomes part of YOUR identity, not ours.

  • Ten visual styles: waveform, sonar, gorilla, oscilloscope, particle, aurora, bloom, thread, matrix, brand
  • Any colour: preset schemes or pick your exact brand hex
  • Frame it in translucent glass, or let it float bare
  • All rendered locally, like everything else it does
Meet my_voice_