Conduck vs Lochan

Conduck is the native Apple client for your self-hosted or BYO-key AI - in your pocket, in the car, and on your wrist. Connect an OpenAI-compatible gateway like OpenClaw, Hermes, Ollama, or LM Studio, or bring an OpenRouter key for a hosted model in about a minute. Your keys, your AI. No Conduck account, no intermediary servers, no relay. Conduck isn't another AI service. There's no model inside it and no intermediary server in the middle. You connect it to an AI you control, then talk or type to it from all your Apple devices. Ask from anywhere • iPhone & iPad: start a chat and type, or hold to talk • Action Button, Shortcuts & Control Center: fire off a quick question without opening the app • Apple Watch: ask straight from your wrist • CarPlay: a hands-free voice conversation on the road • Mac: a full desktop app and menu-bar companion, with a global hotkey and Screenshot & Ask Private by architecture, not by promise • Conduck has no intermediary servers. No accounts, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. • By default, your speech is turned into text right on your device by Apple. Your voice never leaves your device. • Prefer a cloud transcription service? Your audio goes straight from your device to that provider with your own key. We're never in the middle. • Your conversations stay on your device and sync through your own private iCloud. We can't read them. • Your keys and access tokens live in the Keychain, and every connection over the internet is HTTPS. A server on your own network can also be reached without it, if you choose that - and Conduck says so on screen when you do. See what you actually use • Settings keeps a private count of your turns and conversations over time, typed against spoken, for the last week, month, or 90 days. • Broken down by gateway, by device, and by the model each request asked for, with token totals exactly as your gateway reports them. • How often a request lands on the first try, plus the failures that did not, each with the reason it gave. • Measured on your device from your own conversations. Visible only to you, reported to no one. Free to download and use Conduck is free to download and use. No ads, no tracking, no Conduck account. Your AI provider or hosted model may charge separately. What you'll need Conduck is the voice and the interface, not the AI itself. You bring the AI, whichever way suits you: • Start in about a minute: connect a hosted model like OpenRouter with your own API key. Nothing to install, no server to run. • Run your own: point Conduck at a personal AI server you host (such as OpenClaw or Hermes) or any OpenAI-compatible service (Ollama, LM Studio, and the like). It's your server to run and maintain. Conduck simply talks to it. Either way, Conduck walks you through connecting, but it won't create an account or host a model for you. Conduck is for people who want AI on their own terms: their model, their keys, their data, in a fast, native app built to stay out of the middle.

Use any model you want, and drive the agents on every machine you own. On-device and private. Downloaded and local. Cloud with your own keys. Switch per chat, whenever you like. Then open the real terminal for the agent that stopped to ask you something. ANY MODEL, ONE APP Pick the right model for the conversation: - Apple's built-in on-device model - private, instant, fully offline - Downloadable open models (Qwen, Gemma, Llama) - local weights on your phone - Cloud models with your own API key - GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok. Lochan talks to them directly, never through us No account. Your messages only go where you send them. YOUR AGENTS, EVERY HOST Save every Mac or Linux box that runs Herdr - laptop, studio, the machine at home - and switch to the one that needs you. Lochan connects over SSH. Your code, your agents, and your keys stay on that hardware. Nothing of yours sits on a Lochan server. It does not integrate with your agent. It reads the terminal the agent is already running in, so it works with Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Gemini CLI, Goose, OpenCode, and anything with a prompt. A new agent ships next month and it works on day one. KNOW WHICH ONE NEEDS YOU Six agents running means five are fine and one is stuck. Lochan sorts them so you can tell in a second: - Attention board - Blocked, Working, Done, and Idle as swipeable columns - Workspaces - agents grouped by the workspace they are working in - Living tiles - the whole fleet as a grid that moves as your agents do A REAL TERMINAL, NOT A STATUS PAGE Tap any agent and you get the actual session. Full output, scrollback, and a keyboard. Write a prompt, dictate it, answer y/n, drop in a screenshot, kill a run that has gone sideways. PAIR IN A SCAN One command on the host, then scan the QR from Lochan. The phone key lands by itself. Nothing to type, no private key to copy. Cellular needs a VPN or a mesh network. Tailscale is the two-minute version. WHILE YOU WAIT Conversations branch instead of overwrite. Pinch out to see the whole tree as a river and jump anywhere in it. Attach images, PDFs, and text files. Have replies read aloud. Share a chat with a link we cannot read. Your models, on your terms. Your agents, from wherever you are.