Your personal data, on your machine, under your control.
Every message you sent, every article you saved, every decision you made - scattered across platforms that own your data, monetise your attention, and can delete your history without warning.
EgoVault puts it all back in your hands.
| Project | What it does | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Khoj | Self-hostable AI second brain — RAG over personal docs, Obsidian, Notion, web | Requires a server; no email/chat import; cloud option available |
| screenpipe | Records everything you see and hear on your screen, makes it searchable with a local LLM | Screen/audio capture, not message imports; heavier resource use |
| Reor | Private local AI knowledge management — llama.cpp + RAG over Markdown notes | Notes only; no email, Telegram, or social export ingestion |
| PrivateGPT | Chat with local LLM over your own documents — 100% offline | Documents only; no platform adapters or multi-source ingestion |
| Logseq | Local-first knowledge base with graph view and AI plugins | Manual note-taking; no automated import or enrichment pipeline |
EgoVault's focus is automated ingestion from real platforms (Gmail, Telegram, WhatsApp…), enrichment via a local LLM, and hybrid RAG search — all without touching a server you don't own.
Big Tech has had a good run storing your life for you. In return, they read your emails, sell your patterns, and hand your data to whoever asks politely enough. You get a "free" service and a privacy policy nobody reads.
We think that deal is broken.
Your memories do not belong to a corporation. Your conversations are not a product. The decisions, ideas, and relationships you've built over years are yours - and you should be able to search them, learn from them, and take them with you, without asking anyone's permission.
EgoVault is a local-first personal data vault. It runs on your hardware, uses a local LLM that never phones home, stores everything in a single SQLite file you can copy to a USB drive, and answers your questions without sending a single byte to a third party.
No subscriptions. No telemetry. No cloud lock-in.
Cloud sync is a future opt-in - never the default.
You probably use some of these every day. Each one knows more about you than most people in your life.
| Platform | What they hold | Users |
|---|---|---|
| Gmail | Every email you ever sent or received — years of decisions, relationships, receipts, and plans | 1.8 billion |
| Every conversation with friends, family, and colleagues — your real voice, not the public one | 2 billion | |
| Telegram | Groups, channels, personal chats — often the most candid writing people do | 950 million |
| DMs, saved posts, your entire visual history — memories tied to a company's servers | 2 billion | |
| Facebook / Messenger | A decade or more of posts, messages, events, and connections | 3 billion |
None of them will let you search across all of it. None of them will answer "what did I decide about X three years ago?"
They hold your data. EgoVault gives it back to you — fully local, fully searchable, fully yours.
The default model (Gemma 4 E2B, ~3.2 GB) runs on CPU but is significantly faster on a CUDA-capable GPU.
Windows - PowerShell (Windows 10/11, PowerShell 5+)
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milika/EgoVault/main/scripts/install-win.ps1 | iexWindows - Command Prompt (runs the same PowerShell script)
powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milika/EgoVault/main/scripts/install-win.ps1 | iex"Linux / WSL - bash or sh
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milika/EgoVault/main/scripts/install.sh | shmacOS - zsh (default) or bash
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milika/EgoVault/main/scripts/install.sh | shAny platform - pipx (Python 3.11+ required)
pipx install egovaultThen:
egovault chat # terminal REPL
egovault web # browser UI - prints a public URL automatically
egovault mcp # MCP server for AnythingLLM / Claude DesktopFull installation, configuration, and llama-server setup: docs/installation.md
Can't see the file? View it on GitHub.
- Reclaim your history - import emails, documents, chats, and notes from any platform
- Ask questions across everything - "What did I decide about X last year?" - one answer, all sources
- Own the inference - a local LLM reads and enriches your data; nothing leaves your machine
- Access from anywhere -
egovault webpunches a secure tunnel so you can reach your vault from any device - Take it with you - the entire vault is one file; copy it, back it up, move it freely
| Source | Status |
|---|---|
| Local files (PDF, DOCX, HTML, Markdown, EPUB, spreadsheets, plain text) | ✅ |
| Gmail - Takeout / live API (OAuth2) / IMAP | ✅ |
| Telegram export | ✅ |
| WhatsApp (via Baileys), Facebook Messenger | ⏳ planned |
| Discord (via Discord.js) | ⏳ planned |
| Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, TikTok | ⏳ planned |
| Obsidian vault | ⏳ planned |
| Calendar (Google Calendar, CalDAV, ICS) | ⏳ planned |
| Interface | How to start |
|---|---|
| Terminal REPL | egovault chat |
| Browser UI | egovault web |
| Telegram bot | egovault telegram |
How it works under the hood -> docs/how-it-works.md
Terminal REPL — llama-server auto-starts and chat is ready immediately
Browser UI — chat with your vault, tool calls shown inline
Remote access login — password-protected page served over a secure WAN tunnel
Telegram bot — full command set accessible from any device
- WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X
- Obsidian vault reader, Calendar ICS
- Reminders -
/remind <text> at <datetime>with due alerts in chat - Notes -
/note <text>stored and searchable like any vault record - Multi-level access control (owner -> guest, passphrase auth)
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egovault doctor- health-check command
Your data, your rules. Contributions and ideas are welcome - see CONTRIBUTING.md.
See CHANGELOG.md for a full history of releases.
MIT (c) 2026 Milika Delic