Your hardware is enough

The laptop you already own can transcribe an hour of audio with a state-of-the-art speech model. It can upscale images, separate voices from noise, translate speech — the models are open, the runtimes are open, and browsers can reach your GPU. Yet almost every AI tool on the web still works the old way: upload your file to our servers, take your three free minutes, and subscribe if you want more.

That model made sense when inference needed a data center. It doesn't anymore — for a growing class of tasks, the compute sitting on your desk is plenty. What remains is rent: minute caps and monthly fees built not on cost, but on the assumption that you won't notice the cost is gone. Software you could own, repackaged as software you lease forever.

We noticed. YourDevice is the result.

There is a fairness argument here, not just an efficiency one. When a tool runs on your own hardware, it costs the same whether you are a newsroom or a student — which is to say, nothing. A transcript shouldn't be a subscription decision. Tools like this level the field: the same capability for everyone with a browser, not just for whoever can absorb another monthly fee.

How it works — and why that matters

Every tool on this site works the same way. Take transcription, our first: the speech model downloads into your browser once and runs on your machine — your GPU when available, WebAssembly otherwise. There is no upload step because there is no server-side inference at all. Your files are never uploaded — everything runs on your device.

This architecture is not a privacy feature bolted onto a cloud product. It is the product. Because your files are never uploaded, we cannot lose them, mine them, or hand them to anyone. Because inference costs us nothing, we don't have to meter you. The incentives point the right way for once: our costs stay flat whether you transcribe one memo or your entire podcast archive, so "unlimited" is simply the truth, not a marketing tier.

Open where it counts

The inference engine that powers this site is open source under the MIT license. The speech model is OpenAI's open-source Whisper. You can read the code, run it yourself, or build something better with it — we think local-first AI gets stronger the more people ship it. The site around the engine is ad-supported; that pays for development and bandwidth without touching the tool itself.

Where this goes

Transcription is the first tool, not the last. Consumer hardware keeps getting faster and open models keep getting better, so the set of things that don't need anyone's server keeps growing — image work, audio cleanup, translation, and tools we haven't picked yet. Our job is to keep moving them across that line, one by one: from metered services to things your own device just does. Same rules every time — free, unlimited, no accounts, nothing uploaded.

No accounts. No caps. No uploads. Local-first AI, on your hardware — because it's yours.