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 clean, modern desktop with a whole ecosystem of apps designed together. Your files, mail, and AI stay on your machine — a one-time purchase, no subscriptions, no accounts.
The whole surface
Why Ollie
Simple to use, private by default, yours to keep.
A polished desktop with a whole family of apps designed together — keeping your files, your mail, and your AI on your own machine. A one-time purchase, on hardware you already own.
Private by default
Your files, messages, and AI work stay on your computer unless you choose otherwise. No accounts, no telemetry.
Yours to own
A one-time purchase, never a subscription. Activate once and it keeps working offline, on hardware you already paid for.
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. Sold 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
A chat assistant that orchestrates the other Ollie apps. Plug in the provider you trust — local Intelligence, Ollama, Anthropic, OpenAI, or Gemini — and also use Cartridges for deterministic workflows.
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.
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 sold separately for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Smaller apps may offer Linux downloads — same family of products, still private by default.
Private by default.
Your files, your mail, your conversations, and your AI all live on your machine. No accounts to sign into, no telemetry running in the background — 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
An AI assistant that doesn't phone home.
Ollie Intelligence runs AI models directly on your computer. The model lives on your disk, the conversation stays on your disk, and it runs on your own hardware. Connecting a cloud provider is always optional.
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Bring your own model
Download a model you trust and open it in Ollie Intelligence to start chatting — no account, no setup wizard. Models you already have work too.
speed
Hardware acceleration
Runs on the processor in any machine. GPU acceleration is expanding as drivers and runtimes mature.
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Built for offline
Once the model is downloaded, you don't need the internet again. Use it on a plane. Use it in a forest. Use it on a bad hotel network.
share
Available to every Ollie app
Suite, Assistant, and Mail all connect to Intelligence right on your machine. One model, shared by every app — 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.
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?
For developers and creators
Ollie Suite is included.
Ollie Suite is the creative workstation inside Ollie System. The same app family is sold standalone in editions from Write up to Studio — Studio is the full stack — for macOS, Windows, and other Linux distros.
About Ollie SuiteQuestions, 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.
Is it really a one-time purchase?
Yes. Download and activate once. No subscription, and it keeps working offline.
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, so your system stays secure for years.
Get started.
Download the ISO, write it to a USB drive, boot from it. Try it without installing. Install it when you're ready.
Get Ollie FreeFree — request a license, install, activate.