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QV.AC

Desktop app for local AI models, workflows, and experimentation.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

QV.AC is a speech-to-text program, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: local model execution, chat with your documents and sync across devices.

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
  • “Open-source local AI SDK - run AI on-device with no cloud, no API keys.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Supports GGUF, RAG, image, music, and video generation, speech-to-text, P2P inference, and more.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Supports GGUF, RAG, image, music, and video generation, speech-to-text, P2P inference, and more.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “The app includes local document conversion support, persistent local storage, and peer-to-peer sync features for moving work across devices.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of QV.AC is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (Apache-2.0) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

QV.AC is an Electron desktop app for running local AI models, managing projects and threads, and experimenting with retrieval, transcription, and MCP integrations on-device. The app includes local document conversion support, persistent local storage, and peer-to-peer sync features for moving work across devices.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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