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Rowboat

Desktop AI assistant with a work knowledge graph, email, notes and team spaces

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What it is

Rowboat is a desktop app that indexes your email, meetings, Slack and chats into a backlinked knowledge graph, then uses that context to draft replies, run scheduled background agents, and drive coding agents like Claude Code or Codex. It bundles an email client, an isolated browser, a local meeting note-taker, markdown docs and whiteboards. Teams share Spaces where each member's own assistant answers from their local context, so knowledge workers can collaborate without sending their data to a central server.

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Stars
18,041 GitHub stars.
18,041

Forks
1,805
Commits
2,732
Contributors
20
Language
TypeScript
License
Apache-2.0
Last commit
Oct 20, 2026
On GitHub since
January 2025
First release
January 2026
Platforms
macOS, Windows, Linux
Self-hostable
No
Alternative to
Claude Cowork, Notion
Tags
  • ai-assistant
  • note-taking
  • email
  • ai-agents
  • knowledge-graph
  • collaboration

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What people are saying

Updated Oct 20, 2026
  • Hacker NewsShow HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude DesktopJul 7, 2026 · 219 points · 99 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“"Local-first" is stretching to mean "data on disk," not "works offline." Rowboat's HN launch (218 pts) got called out for that gap: still runs on Deepgram…”Jul 13, 2026 · 7 likes · 4 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Local-first alternative to Claude Desktop that lets you build your own work surfaces. Pretty neat concept. #saas #buildinpublic”Jul 8, 2026 · 10 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsRowboat IDE powerful intuitive platform for building and managing your AI agentsJun 29, 2025 · 5 points · 1 comment (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“#AI #coworker: Rowboat. #Mac #Windows #Linux. #OpenSource Apache 2.0 lic”Oct 10, 2026 · 4 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“rowboat - open-source AI coworker, with memory www.rowboatlabs.com www.rowboatlabs.com”Jul 9, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop”Jul 8, 2026 · 0 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop Discussion”Jul 7, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
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  • Bluesky“Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop (github.com) Discussion | Main Link”Jul 8, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop”Jul 7, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
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  • Bluesky“Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop comments · posted on 2026.07.07 at 12:10:44 (c=1, p=7)”Jul 7, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
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