OpenMinis
Your private, on-device AI agent.
OpenMinis brings leading models — Claude, GPT, Gemini and more — into a native
mobile experience, and gives them a real computer to work with: a full Linux
shell running on your device, browser automation, extensible skills, persistent
memory, and deep system integration.
It is free, and fully open source.
We believe that in the age of AI, technical design and code are no longer
where a product's advantage lies. The best agent emerges from a tight feedback
loop with the people who use it — their expectations and their reports are
what converge on the product.
Official website: openminis.app
What it does
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| Bring your own model | Claude, GPT, Gemini and other providers, via your own API keys or account sign-in. |
| A real Linux shell | A sandboxed Alpine Linux environment runs on-device — the agent can install packages, run scripts, and work with real files. |
| Device integration | Health, Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, HomeKit, Bluetooth, Clipboard, Media, Alarms and more, exposed to the agent as tools. |
| Browser automation | The agent can browse and interact with the web on your behalf. |
| Skills & memory | Extensible skills plus persistent memory across sessions. |
| Workspaces | Organise work into separate contexts, addressable via minis://workspace/. |
| Native offloads | Heavy or platform-specific work is handed to native code instead of the sandbox. |
What you can do with Minis
A few things people actually use it for:
- Photograph a meal, log the nutrition — Minis identifies the dishes, estimates
calories and macros, and writes them to Apple Health.
- Wake up to your timeline — Shortcuts triggers Minis to fetch your X timeline,
summarise it, synthesise speech, and play it as your alarm.
- Turn group chatter into tasks — pull messages from a Telegram group, extract
bugs and action items, deduplicate them, and file them into Apple Reminders.
- Mount your Obsidian vault — research, clean up and write Markdown notes back
into the vault as a normal workspace.
- Share anything into a calendar event — send a page or message to Minis via the
iOS Share Sheet and it creates the event, time and place included.
→ OpenMinis/AwesomeMinis — a curated,
community-contributed collection of use cases and workflows across health,
productivity, research, finance and developer tooling.
Skills
A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file — instructions, and optionally scripts,
references and assets — that the agent loads on demand when a request matches it.
Metadata stays in context for triggering; the body and bundled resources load only
when the skill is actually used.
Minis has its own tool system, but it does not require skills written specifically
for it: skills built for Claude, Codex, OpenClaw or Hermes Agent generally run in
Minis as-is. Skills that have been adapted to Minis' tools simply run better —
they can reach the Linux shell, device integrations and native offloads directly.
→ OpenMinis/MinisSkills — skills
adapted for Minis alongside ones built for it from scratch, covering TTS, search,
media downloads, health analysis, cloud APIs and more.
Press
"the most impressive indie app I've seen in a while"
— Federico Viticci, Open Minis Is the iOS Agent I Wish Siri AI Could Be,
MacStories (July 2026)
"在很大程度上实现甚至局部超越了 Apple Intelligence"
— Ye Han, 这可能是 iPhone 最强 Agent 软件，没有之一 丨Open Minis 入门指南,
知乎 / Zhihu (June 2026)
"可能是 iOS 端最强 AI Agent"
— Open Minis：可能是 iOS 端最强 AI Agent,
小众软件 / Appinn (March 2026)
Beta programme
App Store releases can lag behind: every update waits on review, and we hold
builds back when stability warrants it. The TestFlight build is where fixes
and new features land first.
→ Join the TestFlight beta
On Android, the releases page
always carries the latest APK.
Building from source
Minis ships a Linux sandbox inside the app, so the native dependencies (iSH on
iOS, PRoot on Android, FFmpeg, LAME, rclone) and the Alpine rootfs are built
from source rather than committed as binaries.
→ See BUILDING.md for the full first-build guide.
The short version:
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/OpenMinis/OpenMinis.git
cd OpenMinis
# iOS — needs Go 1.25+ and Xcode's Metal Toolchain
# (xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain)
# order matters: FFmpeg links against LAME
./deps/build_lame.sh && ./deps/build_ffmpeg.sh
./deps/build_ish.sh && ./deps/prepare_alpine_rootfs.sh
./deps/build_rclone_ios.sh
open src/ios/Minis.xcodeproj
# Android — needs NDK r28+, Go 1.25+ and gomobile
./deps/build_proot.sh && ./scripts/prepare_android_sandbox.sh
./deps/build_rclone_android.sh
mkdir -p src/android/app/libs && cp deps/build/rclone/rclone.aar src/android/app/libs/
cd src/android && ./gradlew :app:assembleDebug
BUILDING.md covers the toolchain requirements per platform, the build-time
customization templates, and a troubleshooting section for the failure modes
you are most likely to hit.
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