Inky v0.1.0

Little bots that watch the web for you. Tell a bot what to look for in plain words. It learns the site once with AI, then checks it for free on your own computer, tells you only what's new, and always asks before it does anything it can't undo.

Download

macOS, Apple Silicon	Inky_0.1.0_aarch64.dmg
macOS, Intel	Inky_0.1.0_x64.dmg
Windows 10 and 11	Inky_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe (or the .msi)
Linux	.AppImage, .deb or .rpm

The first time you open it, your computer warns you once, because the builds aren't notarized or code-signed yet:

• macOS: open Inky, press Done, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Or: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Inky.app
• Windows: "Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway.
• Linux: chmod +x Inky_*.AppImage and run it.

On first launch Inky downloads the bots' browser (Chromium, about 170 MB). After that, updates come inside the app.

Check a download against SHA256SUMS.txt, or with gh attestation verify <file> -R GHGuide/inky.

What's in 0.1.0

The first public release.

Added

• Bots from a sentence: Inky drafts the bot (name, sites, schedule, rules), finds sites for the job, learns each site once with AI while you watch, then repeats it on a schedule with no AI.
• Ready-made jobs on Home and in setup: price drop, back in stock, new rentals, new jobs, second-hand deals, news on a topic, and a practice site that works in about half a minute.
• Found, Watch and Settings tabs for every bot; chat in plain words ("only under €500", "every hour", "what did you find?"), with simple commands that work without a model.
• Models: local through Ollama (picks the biggest that fits your computer) or a key for OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, xAI or Mistral. Stop a model mid-answer.
• Learning that checks itself: results must be the kind of thing the job is about; home-page feeds, category menus and unsent searches are never saved as results; a site that refuses bots is skipped; what it learned is only kept if checking it again finds something.
• Problems handled quietly: retries after timeouts, offline spells and changed pages; you're asked only after three failures in a row.
• The approval gate: asks before sending, posting, deleting, submitting or signing up; never pays, never types passwords, never solves robot checks. "Always for this step" is remembered.
• Alerts in the app, as notifications, and on Telegram, where you can tap an answer to a bot's question.
• Your own screen (off until you allow it), other computers and servers (pair link, code, SSH, install.sh, Docker), connectors (Claude Code, Codex, n8n, Apify, any MCP server), Inky as an MCP server, sharing bots by link and the public library.
• Desktop app for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows and Linux, built in public with provenance and SHA256SUMS.
• Updates inside the app: signed, checked a few seconds after it opens and every six hours, one click to restart into the new version.
• Light and dark, following your system or your choice in Settings → About.

Security

• Strict Content-Security-Policy on the app's page; fonts bundled, so opening the app makes no outside request.
• Token checks are constant-time; the pairing code is made from a hash of the token.

Fixed

• A first launch no longer waits about 30 seconds on macOS: starting the engine doesn't look up the computer's own name any more.