LARIA - Local AI Assistant

LARIA - Premium Offline AI Companion LARIA is a personal AI companion designed to feel warm, helpful and practical for everyday life. Chat, think, write, brainstorm or generate ideas with an assistant that can run locally on your device — while letting you connect to powerful online models whenever you choose. Now with Android home screen widgets, experimental multilingual text-to-speech, and new multimodal models that can understand both text and images. Private & Offline When You Want It LARIA can run locally on your device, keeping conversations private and under your control. When you need more power or internet access, you can optionally connect to online providers or your own AI endpoints. Why You’ll Want LARIA Premium companion feel: warm, personal, and expressive, with clear boundaries. Multiple “moods”: create identities so your assistant matches your moment (serious, creative, comforting). Always close by: keep LARIA on your Android home screen with dynamic avatar widgets. More personal your way: tune greetings, presentation, and voice settings per identity. You stay in control: decide what runs offline and what uses the internet. Built for real life: writing, learning, planning, and creative work. Key Features Offline models: including Granite-4, Mistral, Gemma, LFM, Phi-4, Dolphin, and Qwen. New multimodal Qwen models: Qwen 0.8B and 4B support text and image input for richer conversations. Identity presets: different system prompt, avatar, and model per identity. Dynamic avatars: preset or custom images, with time-aware variations. Android widgets: dynamic avatar widgets bring your assistant right to the home screen. Per-identity voice settings: choose how each identity sounds, with experimental text-to-speech in English, French, Italian, and Spanish. Scheduled reminders: concise summaries on your schedule (news + weather). Advanced reminders: scheduled summaries with news sources, weather locations, and optional webhooks from your own HTTP endpoints. Optional web search: fetch web results only when a request needs them. Broader online provider support: connect OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, or your own compatible backend. OpenAI-compatible endpoint: connect Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio, or your own backend. Attached-image chat: send text together with an image to supported multimodal models. Offline image generation: generate images on-device, with optional experimental hardware acceleration on supported devices. Storage controls: download/remove models and clean unused files. Chat history: resume and manage past chats. Great For Writing: emails, posts, scripts, rewriting, tone. Learning: summaries, explanations, Q&A. Planning: lists, routines, schedules, travel ideas. Visual prompts: ask questions about images with multimodal-compatible models. Creativity: stories, prompts, worldbuilding, brainstorming. Tech: coding help, debugging notes, structured thinking. Connectivity Notes Offline mode runs locally on your device. Online…