Ask anything, point at anything. A local-first AI co-worker that floats on your screen and answers right where you are - 100% offline.
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Layco lives in a small floating pill on top of everything. Tap a shortcut, ask, and it answers without opening a browser or breaking your flow. Every model runs on your device - no accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.
- 💬 Local chat - ask anything and a language model on your own PC answers (
qwen2.5:3bby default). Translate, rewrite, brainstorm, explain - instantly and privately. - 🎯 Point at anything - drag a box (or click a point) anywhere on screen and ask about it. Layco reads the exact colour by code (instant and precise) and can describe images with a local vision model.
- ⚡ Control your PC - "play", "pause", "next song", "turn the volume up" work as real media actions, routed locally before the model even sees them.
- 📋 Works with your clipboard - copy some text and hit Explain, Summarize or Translate - no pasting into another app.
- ⌨️ Always one shortcut away - press Alt+L and Layco appears where you are; drag it wherever you like. Keep it always on screen or hidden until you call it.
- ⚙️ Yours to tune - shortcut, AI model, appearance and start-with-Windows, all in a clean settings window.
- 🔒 100% local - nothing you type, see or point at ever leaves your computer.
Ask in the floating pill and a model on your own machine answers, right on top of what you are reading.
| Point at anything | Settings |
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| Drag over any zone and ask - here it reads the exact colour, on the spot. | Shortcut, AI model, appearance and startup - all local. |
Layco v0.2.0 uses Ollama as its local brain. It is not self-contained yet (that lands in the embedded-engine phase). One-time setup:
- Install Ollama (free, runs locally).
- Pull the two small models Layco uses:
ollama pull qwen2.5:3b # chat + actions (~1.9 GB)
ollama pull moondream # vision for point-to-ask (~1.7 GB)That's it - Layco talks to Ollama on localhost automatically. You can change the models anytime in Settings → AI & model.
- Click the Download button above - or this direct link: download Layco.
- Run the downloaded
Layco-Setup.exe. It installs per-user (no admin needed). - Launch Layco from the Start Menu (pin it to the taskbar if you like). Press Alt+L to summon it.
Make sure you've done the Ollama setup above, or Layco won't have a brain to think with.
Windows may show an "unknown publisher" warning (the app isn't signed with a paid certificate yet). Click More info → Run anyway.
- Press Alt+L to open the pill (tap to toggle, hold to talk - voice lands in a later phase).
- Type a question and press Enter - the answer appears in place.
- Point at your screen: click the 🎯 button, drag over any zone (or click a spot) and ask "what colour is this?", "describe this", or anything about it.
- Control media: type or say "play", "next song", "volume up" - Layco does it.
- Use your clipboard: copy text, then hit Explain / Summarize / Translate.
Everything is configurable from ⚙️ Settings: change the shortcut, the AI model, the theme, or whether Layco starts with Windows.
Layco is one local brain with several surfaces. Where it's going:
| Phase | What | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A | Floating overlay, global hotkey, local LLM chat | ✅ done |
| B | Point-to-ask (vision + exact colour), PC actions, full settings | ✅ done |
| C | Ears - local speech-to-text (Whisper) so you can talk to it | ⏭️ next |
| D | Embedded engine - bundle the model so it's "download & run", no Ollama | ⏭️ planned |
| E | Hands-free - wake word ("Layco...") for an Alexa-style local assistant | ⏭️ planned |
Layco is built with Tauri 2 (Rust) and React + TypeScript, packaged with pnpm.
git clone https://github.com/Mun1to/Layco.git
cd Layco
pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev # run the overlay in dev
pnpm tauri build # production installerRequires Rust and pnpm. The local models are pulled with Ollama (see Requirements).
Layco runs 100% locally. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry: what you type, what's on your screen and what you point at never leave your computer. An optional cloud mode may arrive later - always opt-in.
Layco is free software under the MIT license.
The default brain is Qwen2.5 (chat) and Moondream (vision), served by Ollama. Built with Tauri.
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