# Hesperan > Hesperan Bots — Self-hosted AI bots. Your models, your subscriptions, your rules. On your Mac, Windows PC or own server. ## Hesperan Bots A team of AI bots you fully own. It runs on your Mac, your Windows PC or your own Linux server, with any model (your ChatGPT or Claude plan, an API key or a local model), and each bot's job, model, memory and routines are yours to change. It is in Early Access: it works and is used every day, but it is still young; free during Early Access. Version 1.3.6 is available: download it from https://hesperan.com/bots/download after signing in with a free Hesperan account. - [Home page](https://hesperan.com/): the whole story on one page. - Bots: each has a name, role, instructions, permissions, its own memory and its own browser. Bots ask each other and hand work over; a main bot can coordinate. ## Where it runs - On your computer: Everything in one app. A Mac with Apple silicon, or a Windows PC. - Plus your iPhone: Your bots in your pocket, at home or away. Plus the iPhone app (Early Access on TestFlight). - Your own server: Bots keep working while your computer is off. Plus a Linux computer that stays on. - Away from home, devices connect through hesperan.com, encrypted end to end. - Mac: macOS on Apple silicon. Everything works there, including ChatGPT and Claude plans, local models and bot computers (macOS 26). Requirements: A Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 13 Ventura or later. Bot computers on a Mac need macOS 26. English interface. - Windows: Hesperan Bots for a PC. A PC with Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit, x64). Version 1.3.6 is downloadable from https://hesperan.com/bots/download with a free Hesperan account; updates come from hesperan.com for signed-in PCs. Bot computers on a PC need Windows 11. The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen warns before the first start: More info, then Run anyway. - [Your own server](https://hesperan.com/bots/server): Run your bots on a Linux computer that is always on, so they keep working while your computer is off. A 64-bit Linux computer (x86_64 or ARM64, such as a home server, a NAS with Docker, a Raspberry Pi 5 or a rented server), with Docker or as a systemd service; version 1.3.6 is downloadable from https://hesperan.com/bots/download with a free Hesperan account; it updates with one click from the app (Settings → Server → Update server) or on the server with `./update.sh` (Docker) or `sudo hesperan-bots-server update` (without Docker). Used from the Mac or Windows app and the iPhone app. Bots there can use folders and commands on a Mac or PC while its app is open. Different on a server: Bot computers need KVM (many rented servers lack it); Moving your Mac's bots to a server comes later; Reading aloud and the microphone stay on your computer. - iPhone app: Early Access, through Apple's TestFlight app. Pairs with a current Hesperan Bots on your Mac, PC or server. It pairs with a Mac, a PC or a server: at home directly, away from home through hesperan.com, encrypted end to end; notifications when a bot needs the person. TestFlight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/bg5ebUqt ## What the bots do - Models: any model the person chooses, with model and effort set per bot: a ChatGPT plan (through Codex, which comes with the ChatGPT app on a Mac), a Claude plan (through their own unmodified Claude Code with its own sign-in), API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter with its many models, or any OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible service added by address) or local models (Ollama, LM Studio). On a server the same choices work: for a ChatGPT or Claude plan, Settings → Models → Install Codex (or Claude Code) on your server, then sign in. - Price: Free during Early Access. Later, parts of it may cost money: we’ll email you at least 30 days before, and nothing becomes paid without your OK. Provider terms, limits and costs apply; local models cost nothing. - Bot computers: optional, off by default; on a Mac (macOS 26, Apple silicon), a Windows 11 PC (x64) or a Linux server with KVM. A Linux desktop in a lightweight virtual machine, without access to the computer it runs on, the local network or other devices; internet only if allowed. The person can watch and take over. - Control: buying, paying, ordering, subscribing and sending to other people in the bot's browser or on its computer stop for the person's approval. Never/Ask/Always per bot and kind of action: spending money is off by default and its Never is final; sending waits for approval by default; Always skips the approval. Per bot the person also chooses Careful, Balanced or Hands-off for how freely it acts; at every level, money, contracts, legal matters, new people and deleting for good wait for approval (unless set to Always). After a bot read something from outside (a page, an email, a file), anything that sends, changes, pays or deletes waits for the person. By default, mail through extensions waits as a draft in the app. Undo for file changes (30 days); Stop everything; activity log. - Development: projects in separate copies on their own branch, the project's checks run, results in a Changes card (apply, keep as branch, open pull request, discard). On a ChatGPT or Claude plan the coding is handed to Codex or Claude Code on the computer the bots run on. - Also: bots talk things over in a group (rounds and a cost limit the person sets; the lead sums up), research in the bot's browser, files, routines (on a schedule, or when an email arrives, the calendar changes, a Telegram message comes in, something happens on GitHub, a file lands in a folder or a local web address is called), mail/calendar/documents through extensions, Telegram, commands in a sandbox in shared folders. - AI tools: Claude Code, Codex and similar AI agents can be paired over the person's own network to ask bots and read their chats; they can never approve anything or change settings. - Memory: facts, profile, people and projects, episodes; readable, editable and deletable; per bot and shared with the team; local search; secrets hidden before indexing. - Privacy: data stored on the person's computer or own server; no analytics or telemetry. hesperan.com only handles the account, downloads, updates and the end-to-end encrypted relay for away from home. What leaves the device: requests to the chosen model provider (none with local models), what bots send to sites and services they are allowed to use, the Hesperan account sign-in, update checks, one-time downloads and problem reports the person chooses to send. - Bot computers are optional and off by default for every bot. They run on a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26, on a Windows 11 PC, or on your own Linux server with KVM. A bot's computer downloads its system image from hesperan.com with your Hesperan account. ## Films - [Explainer films](https://hesperan.com/bots/questions#films): two short films (about a minute each), each about one idea. Narration: AI-generated voice (Cartesia). Captions and the narration text are available. - Any model. Your choice. (56 s): Every bot thinks with the model you pick: your ChatGPT or Claude plan, an API key from OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter or any compatible provider, or a model on your Mac with Ollama or LM Studio. A different one for every bot, and you can switch at any time. The plans need Codex or Claude Code on your computer or server, signed in with your own account. With an API key you pay the provider directly; a local model costs nothing. Filmed on a Mac; it works the same on Windows and on your own server. “Free” in the film means free during Early Access. - A computer for every bot (52 s): Every bot has its own browser with its own logins, separate from yours. If you like, a bot also gets a computer of its own: a small Linux desktop, walled off from your Mac. Watch it work, take over when a site needs you to sign in, and give it back. Bot computers are optional and off by default for every bot. They run on a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26, on a Windows 11 PC, or on your own Linux server with KVM. A bot's computer downloads its system image from hesperan.com with your Hesperan account. ## Get it - [Download](https://hesperan.com/bots/download) - Download: https://hesperan.com/bots/download (the Mac app, the Windows app, the iPhone app and the server for Linux on one page) after signing in or creating a free Hesperan account. The Mac app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. The app signs in with the same account; app updates and the bot computer image come from hesperan.com for signed-in computers. - Early Access: It works and we use it every day, but it is still young. If something goes wrong, tell us from the app with Help → Report a Problem. The desktop app updates itself. Your own server updates with one command. Your bots, chats and memory stay on your computer or server. An update can change how the app stores them, so keep a backup. The server guide shows how on a server. Free during Early Access. Later, parts of it may cost money: we’ll email you at least 30 days before, and nothing becomes paid without your OK. - There is no public web app or managed hosting offer. - [Questions](https://hesperan.com/bots/questions): short answers about cost, where it runs, models, approvals and data. - [Early Access](https://hesperan.com/bots/early-access): what it means, what isn't there yet, the price and how to give feedback. - [What's new](https://hesperan.com/bots/changelog): every published version with its notes. - The app is licensed under AGPL-3.0-only. Its source remains private until the owner chooses to publish it. - [Source code and licences](https://hesperan.com/bots/source): third-party components of the Mac and Windows apps, the server package and the bot computer (such as the Linux kernel), their licences and sources, and the written source offer. ## Blobling - [Blobling](https://hesperan.com/blobling): The iPhone app built for Hermes Agent’s Bot Mode. Your team of bots in one fluid iPhone app. Each with its face, status, chat, memory, routines and computer. A native iPhone app (iOS 26, English and German) for a Hermes Agent server the person runs themselves; it is a separate product from Hesperan Bots. - Bot Mode: in Hermes Agent every profile is a bot with its own name, avatar, memory, routines, tools and approvals, and optionally its own computer (a virtual desktop). Blobling shows these bots side by side. Bot Mode needs no extra setup for Blobling: every profile on the server appears as a bot. - See who needs you: A face for every bot, all in one row; Live state: waiting for you, working, unread, draft; While You Were Away: who is waiting for you. - Jump between bots: Tap a face to switch instantly; Straight back into the last chat; Code, tables, math and diagrams in every chat. - Approve safely: Allow Once, For This Session or Always; Always asks for Face ID; Lock the app with Face ID. - Check what got done: Today: what every bot did and what’s next; Running Now: goals, subagents and background tasks; What your bot remembers. - Delegate: Drag a message onto a face to forward it; Group chats with several bots; Each bot’s routines: run, pause, edit; Watch a bot’s computer, or take control. - Follow up: Side questions next to the main chat; Send Later, with an outbox; Voice mode and dictation. - On the iPhone: Siri and Shortcuts; Share sheet and Spotlight; Focus filter; Fluid 120 Hz animations you can interrupt; English and German. - What it needs: Your own Hermes Agent server; Reachable over HTTPS, e.g. with Tailscale Serve; Sign-in with username and password on that server; An iPhone with iOS 26. - Data: everything goes from the iPhone directly to the person's own server and from there to the AI providers configured on it. Hesperan runs no server for the app and receives no data from it: no account, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. - Availability: coming soon to the App Store as "Blobling: AI Agents"; not available yet. - Not affiliated with Nous Research. Hermes Agent is software by Nous Research under the MIT licence; Blobling is an independent app by Hesperan. - [Support](https://hesperan.com/blobling/support) · [Privacy policy](https://hesperan.com/blobling/privacy) · hello@hesperan.com ## Hesperan - [About](https://hesperan.com/#about) - Contact: hello@hesperan.com - [Security](https://hesperan.com/security): how to report a security problem, and how Hesperan Bots protects keys, money and devices. - [Privacy](https://hesperan.com/legal/privacy) - [Imprint](https://hesperan.com/legal/imprint) - [Terms](https://hesperan.com/legal/bots-terms)