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maid

Maid is an open source app for interacting with artificial intelligence models.

  • Free, with trade-offs
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its GitHub repository: read-aloud, offline use and self-hosting on your own server.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “For text to speech functionality check out Maid's companion app Maise.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Local inference — run GGUF models fully on-device via llama.cpp; no internet required” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Remote providers — connect to API Route, Anthropic, DaoXE, DeepSeek, Mistral, Novita, Ollama, llmman, Opper, OrcaRouter, Runcrate, and OpenAI with your own API key, or to a self-hosted LiteLLM proxy for 100+…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

maid is free, with trade-offs: it relies on a non-free online service.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Few recent updates
  • Flagged by F-Droid: relies on a non-free online service

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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