Survival LLM 0.3.0

A free AI assistant and survival library that runs entirely on your own computer, with no internet needed once it's set up. Ask it about food safety in a blackout, burns, water purification, generators or repairs: it searches an offline library of about 1.5 million articles and shows you where each answer came from.

New in 0.3.0

• Memory: tell it about yourself (your daughter's penicillin allergy, the generator you own, which of your files matters most) and it saves a short note, so later chats know it too. Under each answer you see what it saved, with Undo. Memory, at the top, shows every note in one list you can edit, and a switch turns off the AI's saving (it still reads the notes you keep). The notes stay on your computer.

Fixed in 0.3.0

• "CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED" when downloading the library: on computers whose network or antivirus uses its own certificates (common on work laptops), the library, engine and update downloads failed while models downloaded fine. The app now checks certificates the way your computer does. If you hit this error, Check for updates can't reach the update either, so download 0.3.0 below by hand; your models, library and files stay where they are.
• Sources: the AI can no longer open an article it never found in a search, which once put an unrelated article in an answer's Sources.

Already on 0.2.x? Click Check for updates at the bottom of the window.

Download the app for your computer:

• Mac (Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or newer): Survival-LLM-mac.zip (213 MB, includes the AI engine)
• Windows (10 or 11, 64-bit): Survival-LLM-windows.zip (25 MB; downloads the AI engine during setup)

Open the app and it walks you through downloading an AI model that fits your computer and the library.

First launch:

• Mac: macOS says it can't verify the app. Click Done, open System Settings > Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway next to "Survival LLM was blocked", and confirm. Only once.
• Windows: right-click the zip and choose Extract All, then double-click Survival LLM.bat in the extracted folder. If Windows protects your PC, click More info, then Run anyway.

Library downloads: Everything (8.8 GB, about 1.5 million articles) or Essentials (1.3 GB, about 500,000, without Wikipedia and iFixit), fetched by the app from the 0.1.0 release. Sources and licenses: SOURCES.md. AI models make mistakes; every answer shows its sources so you can check.

Survival LLM 0.2.1

A free AI assistant and survival library that runs entirely on your own computer, with no internet needed once it's set up. Ask it about food safety in a blackout, burns, water purification, generators or repairs: it searches an offline library of about 1.5 million articles and shows you where each answer came from.

Fixed in 0.2.1

• No more false "Not enough free disk space": on a Mac the app now counts free space the way System Settings does, including space macOS frees when something needs it. The old count could be tens of GB lower.
• Installing Everything needs about 27 GB free instead of 36: the app unpacks straight from the downloaded parts and deletes each one as it goes.
• If the disk fills up during an install, the app says so plainly and cleans up after itself, and trying again only downloads what it has to.

Already on 0.2.0? Click Check for updates at the bottom of the window.

New in 0.2.0

• Your files: add your own PDFs, Word documents, ebooks, web pages and notes (your generator's manual, a medicines list, your family's emergency plan) and the AI searches them along with the library. Drop them on the window or use Your files at the top. They stay on your computer.
• Updates: Check for updates, at the bottom of the window, installs new versions in one click and keeps your models, library and files. The app also checks once a day while it runs.
• Checked sources: the AI names the sources it used, and the app checks that line against the articles it actually opened or saw. A line that names anything else is replaced with the list of what it read.

Download the app for your computer:

• Mac (Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or newer): Survival-LLM-mac.zip (213 MB, includes the AI engine)
• Windows (10 or 11, 64-bit): Survival-LLM-windows.zip (25 MB; downloads the AI engine during setup)

Open the app and it walks you through downloading an AI model that fits your computer and the library.

First launch:

• Mac: macOS says it can't verify the app. Click Done, open System Settings > Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway next to "Survival LLM was blocked", and confirm. Only once.
• Windows: right-click the zip and choose Extract All, then double-click Survival LLM.bat in the extracted folder. If Windows protects your PC, click More info, then Run anyway.

Library downloads: Everything (8.8 GB, about 1.5 million articles) or Essentials (1.3 GB, about 500,000, without Wikipedia and iFixit), fetched by the app from the 0.1.0 release. Sources and licenses: SOURCES.md. AI models make mistakes; every answer shows its sources so you can check.

Survival LLM 0.2.0

A free AI assistant and survival library that runs entirely on your own computer, with no internet needed once it's set up. Ask it about food safety in a blackout, burns, water purification, generators or repairs: it searches an offline library of about 1.5 million articles and shows you where each answer came from.

New in 0.2.0

• Your files: add your own PDFs, Word documents, ebooks, web pages and notes (your generator's manual, a medicines list, your family's emergency plan) and the AI searches them along with the library. Drop them on the window or use Your files at the top. They stay on your computer.
• Updates: Check for updates, at the bottom of the window, installs new versions in one click and keeps your models, library and files. The app also checks once a day while it runs.
• Checked sources: the AI names the sources it used, and the app checks that line against the articles it actually opened or saw. A line that names anything else is replaced with the list of what it read.

Download the app for your computer:

• Mac (Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or newer): Survival-LLM-mac.zip (213 MB, includes the AI engine)
• Windows (10 or 11, 64-bit): Survival-LLM-windows.zip (25 MB; downloads the AI engine during setup)

Open the app and it walks you through downloading an AI model that fits your computer and the library.

First launch:

• Mac: macOS says it can't verify the app. Click Done, open System Settings > Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway next to "Survival LLM was blocked", and confirm. Only once.
• Windows: right-click the zip and choose Extract All, then double-click Survival LLM.bat in the extracted folder. If Windows protects your PC, click More info, then Run anyway.

Library downloads: Everything (8.8 GB, about 1.5 million articles) or Essentials (1.3 GB, about 500,000, without Wikipedia and iFixit), fetched by the app from the 0.1.0 release. Sources and licenses: SOURCES.md. AI models make mistakes; every answer shows its sources so you can check.

Survival LLM 0.1.0

A free AI assistant and survival library that runs entirely on your own computer, with no internet needed once it's set up. Ask it about food safety in a blackout, burns, water purification, generators or repairs: it searches an offline library of about 1.5 million articles and shows you where each answer came from.

Download the app for your computer:

• Mac (Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or newer): Survival-LLM-mac.zip (202 MB, includes the AI engine)
• Windows (10 or 11, 64-bit): Survival-LLM-windows.zip (24 MB; downloads the AI engine during setup)

Open the app and it walks you through downloading an AI model that fits your computer and the library. You don't need to download the library-*.zip.* files below yourself; the app fetches and joins them.

First launch:

• Mac: macOS says it can't verify the app. Click Done, open System Settings > Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway next to "Survival LLM was blocked", and confirm. Only once.
• Windows: right-click the zip and choose Extract All, then double-click Survival LLM.bat in the extracted folder. If Windows protects your PC, click More info, then Run anyway.

Library downloads: Everything (8.8 GB, about 1.5 million articles) or Essentials (1.3 GB, about 500,000, without Wikipedia and iFixit). Sources and licenses: SOURCES.md. AI models make mistakes; every answer shows its sources so you can check.