Designed as one
The dock, the icons, and every app were designed together. A desktop that's pleasant to look at and calm to use.
Ollie System
A complete desktop with a whole family of applications, designed together and deployed on your own infrastructure. Your files, your mail and your AI never leave the building.
The whole surface
Why Ollie
Simple to use, private by default, yours to keep.
A polished desktop with a whole family of applications designed together — keeping your files, your mail and your AI on machines you control.
Private by default
Your files, messages, and AI work stay on your computer unless you choose otherwise. No accounts, no telemetry.
Yours, on your own terms
Installed on hardware you already own and running inside your own network — offline, with no dependency on anyone else's cloud.
AI on your machine
Run AI models locally and offline, available to every app — or bring your own cloud keys. Your choice, your data.
One system, not app chaos
Every Ollie app is designed and built together — consistent, simple, and working as one.
Linux power when you want it
Standard Debian and Ubuntu underneath. Drop to a terminal, install the tools you know, run Steam and Chrome — but you never have to.
The Ollie ecosystem
Every app, one promise.
From a mail client to an entire simulated world — every app is designed together and keeps its files in a clearly named folder in your home directory, so your work is easy to find and move.
Suite
A creative workstation — code, rich text, 3D, video, image, PDF, and audio editors in one place. Available standalone in editions from Write to Studio, with Studio as the full stack.
Intelligence
Run AI models right on your computer. Download a model, run it on your processor or graphics card, and chat with it offline.
Email, calendar, and contacts in one place, using the standard services your provider already supports. Your messages stay on your disk — and drafts you write at thirty thousand feet send the moment you land.
Browser
Surfing without the surveillance. Tabs, bookmarks, history — none of it leaves your machine.
Assistant
An agent that works your computer and orchestrates the other Ollie apps. Plug in the provider you trust — local Intelligence, Ollama, Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini — and extend it with your own tools, skills and MCP servers.
Cosmos
A sovereign 3D world and game engine. Walk, fly, and build — right-click anything to recode it live. Multiplayer and seed-shareable, and inhabited by people and AI agents through one interface.
Maps
Offline maps and turn-by-turn navigation. Download the areas you travel — tiles and roads — then search, route, and navigate them with no connection at all.
Marine
Offline nautical charts and passage navigation. Download your cruising area — charts, seamarks and tide stations — then navigate it, watch your anchor and read the tide with no signal at all.
Aviator
Sectional charts, flight planning and a real nav log. Download your flying area — airports, runways, frequencies, airspace and magnetic variation — then fly it with wind-corrected headings, fuel checks and airspace alerts, with no signal at all.
Hub
Ecosystem dashboard. See every app's status, version, and license at a glance.
Explorer
File manager with previews, fast search, and a clear mental model. No tags you didn't ask for.
Media
Music, video, photos — handles common formats. No accounts, no subscriptions.
Catalog
A curated software store on top of standard Ubuntu — install Chrome, Steam, GIMP, VLC, and more in one click. It's regular Linux underneath.
Notepad
Simple note-taking with auto-save. Files are real files — open them in vim if you want.
Camera
Webcam capture for photos and short clips. Saves directly to your home directory.
Settings
Appearance, sound, network, users, display, about. Direct, no nested submenus seven layers deep.
Desktop
The shell — dock, launchpad, system tray. The window chrome you see on every app comes from here.
Ollie Suite and Ollie Assistant are also available separately for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Smaller apps may offer Linux downloads — same family of products, still private by default.
No accounts. No telemetry.
Your files, your mail, your conversations, and your AI all live on your machine. Nothing runs in the background reporting on you — and nothing leaves unless you decide it should.
Built on solid ground.
Underneath the calm surface is standard Debian and Ubuntu — the same open foundation trusted to run servers, labs, and critical systems the world over. Stable, familiar, and yours to extend.
Sovereign storage
Your data, where you can find it.
Every Ollie app keeps its data in a named folder in your home directory—files and settings you can browse, copy, move, and back up like anything else on your computer.
- One clear folder per app, so you always know where to look.
- No locked-in cloud silo—your work stays on your machine unless you choose otherwise.
- Move the folder to another Ollie System machine to bring that app's local history with you.
- Delete the folder when you want an app to start fresh.
- Back up however you already back up your computer.
Where everything lives
One folder per app, in your home directory:
~/.ollie-{app}/state.json
Local AI, and an agent that uses it
An AI that works your computer, not just talks about it.
Ollie Intelligence runs AI models directly on your machine — the model on your disk, the conversation on your disk. Ollie Assistant is what turns that model into an agent: it reads your files, runs commands, drives a browser and operates every other Ollie app. Together they are a complete AI stack that owes nothing to anyone's cloud.
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An agent, not a chat window
Assistant does the work — editing files, running commands, filling in web forms, drafting mail — and reports back when it's done.
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Any model you like
Run it entirely locally through Intelligence or Ollama, or bring your own key for Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini. Switching models changes nothing else.
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Built for offline
Once a model is downloaded you never need the internet again. Use it on a plane. Use it in a forest. Use it on a bad hotel network.
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Extend it yourself
Tools, skills and personas are files in a folder — add your own, or connect any MCP server, with no rebuild and no plugin store.
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Available to every Ollie app
Suite, Assistant and Mail all reach the same model on your machine. One model, shared by everything — not a separate one for each.
No walled garden
Runs the software you already use.
Ollie is real Linux underneath, with a one-click software store. Install Steam and your game library, Blender, OBS, GIMP, VLC, Discord — thousands of apps, including many built for Windows. A complete computer from day one.
Plus thousands more through the built-in store — and your Windows games run too, through Steam's Proton.
And then you close the laptop lid on work
It's also a console when you want it to be.
Press Super+M and the desktop steps aside for a full-screen gaming mode built for a controller and a couch. Ollie finds the games you already own, switches the machine to a performance cooling profile, and maps your gamepad automatically. Press it again and your windows come back exactly as you left them.
Your library, already there
Steam titles and anything else installed on the system are discovered automatically — no importing, no separate launcher to configure.
Controller-first
A gamepad mapper starts with the mode, so the pad works in the interface and not just inside games. Super+Enter is the guide button.
Switches gears with you
Entering gaming mode moves the machine onto a performance cooling profile, and leaving it puts everything back.
Your work is untouched
Open windows are stashed when you switch and restored when you return. Gaming mode is a mode, not a reboot.
Windows games run through Steam's Proton compatibility layer. Steam installs in one click from Ollie Catalog.
Runs light
It looks this good on the computer you already have.
Ollie is designed to feel fast and stay out of your way — so the laptop in your drawer or the desktop you've had for years can feel new again. No upgrade required, and a little less in the landfill.
Will it run on my computer?
Also for Mac and Windows
Ollie Assistant doesn't need Ollie System.
The agent at the centre of the ecosystem installs on macOS, Windows and Linux as a normal desktop app — reading files, running commands, driving a browser, and working against a local model or your own cloud key. It is how most companies meet Ollie for the first time.
About Ollie AssistantFor developers and creators
Ollie Suite is included.
Ollie Suite is the creative workstation inside Ollie System. The same app family is available standalone in editions from Write up to Studio — Studio is the full stack — for macOS, Windows, and other Linux distros.
About Ollie SuiteFor organizations
Bring it into your organization.
We deploy Ollie on your own infrastructure, fit it to how your people actually work, and stay with it. One vendor for the desktop, the applications and the AI — and nothing has to leave your network.
Talk to usFree to download and evaluate, on as many machines as you like.
Questions, answered.
Can I try it without installing?
Yes. Write Ollie to a USB stick and boot from it to look around — nothing touches your current system until you choose to install.
Will my apps work?
Ollie is standard Linux underneath, with a one-click software store for Chrome, Steam, VLC and thousands more. Many Windows apps run too.
How do we get it?
Downloading and evaluating it is free — take the ISO and run it on your own hardware for as long as you like. When you want it in your organization, we arrange that directly with you: we deploy it, fit it to your work, and support it.
What about my files from Windows or Mac?
Your documents, photos, music and videos are just files — copy them over and they work. Ollie keeps everything in plain folders you control.
Do I need to know Linux?
No. Ollie is built to be calm and simple. The terminal is there if you ever want it, but you never have to touch it.
How long is it supported?
Ollie tracks a long-term Linux base and ships regular updates throughout each version year, so your systems stay secure for years.
Who makes Ollie?
Ollie is an independent passion project, built with care in Maryland — not a big company. There's no ad model and no data business, which is exactly why it can be private by default.
Does it need the internet?
Only briefly, the first time you activate it. After that, Ollie works fully offline — including the AI, once a model is on the machine. Air-gapped sites are handled as part of the deployment.
Evaluate it first.
Download the ISO, write it to a USB drive, boot from it. Run the whole system on your own hardware, for as long as you want, before you talk to anyone.
Download Ollie SystemEvaluation is free and unrestricted. Deployments are arranged directly with us.