Your AI. Yours to keep.
An AI that remembers you, learns your preferences, and works for you — not for a platform that can shut it down.
Start from a template
Each template comes with a tailored identity, curated tool selection, and sensible defaults. Everything stays editable.
Personal Assistant
Help manage personal affairs, assist with education, keep schedules, and support other personal tasks.
Tutor
Assist with coursework, formulate training programs, help users practice tests. Adapts to adult education, schoolwork, or classroom support.
Wellness Companion
Support daily living needs. Organize personal affairs, track medication, provide company, watch for medical emergencies, assist with at-home diagnostics.
Home Automation
Take home automation to the next level. A cognitive control system for smart devices, security systems, and home management.
Gamemaster
Support storytelling and roleplaying games for a user, family, or private community. Craft and present fantasy worlds.
Platforms delete relationships.
When a platform updates its terms, changes its API, or shuts down a feature, your AI companion is gone. The personality you built, the conversations you had, the months of context — deleted. Not because you chose to leave, but because the platform chose for you.
Every time a platform changes its pricing tier, deprecates a model, or pivots its product strategy, the relationship you built is collateral damage. The solution isn't a better platform — it's no platform at all.
Self-hosted means nobody can take it away.
Animus runs on your own hardware — a spare laptop, a Raspberry Pi, a small VPS. Your agent's memory, preferences, and history live on your disk, not in someone else's cloud. No platform can delete it. No terms-of-service update can change it. No subscription cancellation can end it.
You own the data. You control the access. The AI works for you, not for a company that monetizes your conversations.
What an Animus agent does
Not a chatbot. Not a companion. A persistent assistant that gets better the more you use it.
It Remembers
Your preferences, your projects, your context. Not just for this session — permanently. The agent builds cumulative knowledge over time, getting more useful the more you work together.
Private by Design
Conversations stay on your machine. No telemetry, no training on your data, no third-party access. Your data, your hardware, your rules.
Talks Where You Talk
Connect through Telegram, IRC, Discord, Mastodon, email — wherever you already are. Your agent meets you on your platforms, not a new app you have to learn.
Actually Useful
Not just chat. Your agent can search the web, read and write files, run scripts, manage schedules, and use tools you build for it. It does things, it doesn't just talk about them.
Speaks Your Language
Full interface translation in 23 languages. Your agent can communicate in whatever language you're comfortable with, on whatever platform you use.
No Lock-In
Eleven LLM providers supported. Switch from GPT to a free local model and your agent's memory, preferences, and history all survive. The AI you built doesn't restart when you change the brain.
Accessible to everyone.
Animus is free, open-source software. It runs on hardware you already own or a €5/month VPS. It works with free local models (via Ollama) or any API provider you choose — from budget-friendly options like DeepSeek to premium models like GPT.
No subscriptions. No per-message pricing. No data harvesting. Just software that does what you need, on hardware you control, at a price you decide.