Quobi is private, on-device dictation for desktop. Hold a hotkey, talk, and clean text lands wherever your cursor is. Speech-to-text is NVIDIA Parakeet (sherpa-onnx, on-device CPU) and the cleanup pass is Quill, a fine-tuned model run locally via llama.cpp. No cloud, no account, no API key — your audio never leaves the machine.
Both binaries below are built from this tag.
Downloads
| Platform | File | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Quobi-x86_64.AppImage |
x86-64 · Vulkan (any GPU, or CPU-only) · glibc 2.39+ |
| Windows | Quobi_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe |
Windows 10/11 · 64-bit |
The speech model and a cleanup model download on first run (pick a Quill size in Settings — 0.8B runs on any CPU).
Linux
chmod +x Quobi-x86_64.AppImage
./Quobi-x86_64.AppImage
Needs glibc 2.39 or newer for the GUI. On older distros, build from source — see docs/BUILD-FROM-SOURCE.md. For the evdev hotkey backend on Wayland, add yourself to the input group.
Windows
Run the installer. It is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC" — click More info -> Run anyway. Microsoft Defender may also flag it as a generic ML false positive (Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.A!ml) common to unsigned PyInstaller/Tauri apps; verify the download with the SHA-256 below. Code signing is planned.
Verify your download (SHA-256)
Quobi-x86_64.AppImage 84a7a64c1cbaf521097e619c850baea03da0634eb1c79fcaa9895adf570f4502
Quobi_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe a8e7b4e17dfb150e0ebb27a8157e48f8f46867925ec9a544085fd85d4a642aa0
License
App + training recipes: AGPL-3.0. Quill cleanup weights: Apache-2.0 (huggingface.co/quobi/quill).