Top 15 Rust local-ai Projects

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1. meetily

   1 17 23,078 9.5 Rust

   Privacy first, AI meeting assistant with 4x faster Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization built on Rust. 100% local processing. no cloud required. Meetily (Meetly Ai - https://meetily.ai) is the #1 Self-hosted, Open-source Ai meeting note taker for macOS & Windows. Understand How to write meeting minutes

   

   Project mention: Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-27

   I actually found this one today and will be adding it to Opensource Builders soon:

   https://github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily

2. SaaSHub

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3. core

   2 7 1,606 9.4 Rust

   A privacy-preserving Raspberry Pi home security camera that uses advanced end-to-end encryption. (by secluso)

   

   Project mention: Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-29

4. lukan

   3 2 36 9.8 Rust

   AI workstation that codes, manages emails and calendar, automates tasks, browses the web, orchestrates multi-agent pipelines, and connects to WhatsApp, Slack, Discord & Telegram. Built in Rust.

   

   Project mention: Show HN: How do you manage multiple AI agents? We built a tmux-based in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-03

5. vox

   4 1 36 7.7 Rust

   Local voice AI framework for Rust. Whisper + LLM + TTS with no cloud dependencies. (by mrtozner)

   

   Project mention: Vox – Local Voice AI Framework in Rust (STT and TTS and VAD) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-15

6. nika

   5 1 29 9.9 Rust

   Intent as Code | the workflow language for AI. One file, 4 verbs, one Rust binary. Local-first, any model, AGPL-3.0. 🦋

   

   Project mention: Nika – Intent as Code for AI Workflows | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-08

7. zenii

   6 3 19 - Rust

   Your machine's AI brain. One 20MB binary gives every tool, script, and cron job shared AI memory + 133 API routes. Desktop app, CLI, Telegram — all connected. Rust-powered.

   

   Project mention: Your Cron Jobs Can't Think. These Can. | dev.to | 2026-05-08

   I automated the entire thing — including the LLM call — in one TOML file. No Python. No Bash glue. No three separate cron entries. Zenii runs the whole pipeline on a schedule, passes outputs between steps, and fires off the Telegram message before I've poured my first coffee.

8. comp-scan

   7 1 7 4.4 Rust

   A fully local AI agent that scans your system, observes usage patterns, and suggests one-click improvements. Rust • private • zero telemetry.

   

   Project mention: Show HN: CompScan, a local system health doctor (Rust, no telemetry) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-05

9. llamastash

   8 3 4 - Rust

   A fast terminal native app (TUI) and CLI with init wizard for launching local LLMs via llama.cpp with zero overhead

   

   Project mention: LlamaStash – Zero-overhead, terminal-native llama.cpp launcher | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-02

10. paddock

    9 1 7 9.4 Rust

    Which LLMs fit your Apple Silicon Mac, how fast they'll run, and how to launch them, in one command.

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Paddock – Ranks and runs LLMs on your Mac from live GGUF headers | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-08

11. quaynor

    10 1 3 - Rust

    Embed local LLMs in your app

    

    Project mention: Easiest way to create agents with local LLMs | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-04

12. MoreAI

    11 2 3 9.7 Rust

    Local-first Windows AI platform — 30+ workspaces in one app. Chat, IDE, Music, Voice, Games, Image, Video & more. Runs local, cloud optional. Free & open source (MIT).

    

    Project mention: What AI tools do you use? | dev.to | 2026-07-01

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13. Memory-Genome-Engine

    12 1 2 9.5 Rust

    Local-first structured memory engine for AI agents with binary storage, CLI/TUI, MCP-ready JSON-RPC, SDKs, and optional encrypted stores.

    

    Project mention: Your AI Agent Does Not Need More Chat History. It Needs Real Memory 🧠✨ | dev.to | 2026-06-30

    GitHub: https://github.com/ECD5A/Memory-Genome-Engine

14. NEOTH

    13 1 5 10.0 Rust

    Local-first personal AI daemon in Rust — five-tier memory, consent-gated tools, WASM plugin sandbox, multi-provider LLM routing, channels, GUI, signed audit logs, and Babel-Index collapse prediction on its own runtime.

    

    Project mention: I built an AI that predicts its own collapse | dev.to | 2026-07-03

15. ragpilot

    14 1 0 7.6 Rust

    MCP server that gives AI coding agents semantic search, symbol graphs, impact analysis, and token-budgeted context bundling over local codebases.

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Ragpilot – MCP that cuts AI agent context tokens 6-9x via local RAG | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-03

16. SamarisOSMountainLake

    15 1 0 - Rust

    A bootable OS where the desktop is a React app. Local AI. Zero telemetry. Dual-kernel.

    

    Project mention: Samaris OS: A Bootable Linux-Based OS with React UI, Rust Daemons and Local AI | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-20

Rust local-ai related posts

• What AI tools do you use?

  1 project | dev.to | 1 Jul 2026

• Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 May 2026

• Secluso: E2E Encrypted Home Security Camera

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2026

• Can I Run AI locally?

  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2026

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