Renegade
Introducing Renegade

Own yourintelligence.

Run powerful AI right on your own machine, free and private, with no account and no one who can pull the plug. Plug in the big online models like ChatGPT or Claude too, and switch between them in one click.

Or install with Homebrew
brew install --cask renegade

Who are our top 3 competitors in AI note-taking, and how do we compare on price?

Thought process

I'll search the web for current pricing, then compress it into a clear comparison.

Searched the webAI note-taking apps pricing 2026

Here are the three closest competitors and how their entry plans compare:

Pricing snapshot

  • Otter: $16.99 / user / month, 1,200 monthly minutes.
  • Fireflies: $18 / user / month, unlimited transcription.
  • Granola: $18 / user / month, desktop-first.
  • You: $12 / user / month. You are the value pick, but lighter on integrations.

Where are we weakest?

Integrations and team analytics. Two of the three ship CRM sync and admin dashboards on the entry tier; you gate both behind the top plan. That is the gap most likely to lose enterprise deals.

Put the comparison in a table I can drop into Notion.

Wrote a filecompetitors.md

Done. I saved a Markdown table to competitors.md, formatted for a Notion paste.

Renegade runs open models on your machine. Generations may be imperfect.

Every AI in the cloud has an off switch.

The only question is whose hand is on it.

Read the manifesto
Why Renegade

Models come and go. Yours doesn't have to.

Online AI gets retired, banned, or priced out of reach overnight, with no warning and no appeal. With Renegade, you just pick another model and keep going.

One app, every model

Online or local. Your choice, every time.

Online · your API key

Local models

  • ToolsVisionThinking

Run powerful open models right on your own machine, fully private and offline. Or connect a big online model like ChatGPT or Claude with your own key. No console, no setup to wrestle with: find a model, click, and it runs. Switch between your machine and the cloud whenever you like.

Private by default

No account. No kill-switch. No one to ask.

Search chats
Ollama: Running

When a model runs on your machine, your chats and your models stay there. Nothing to sign up for, nothing reporting back, nothing anyone can switch off.

No lock-in

Move a chat. Keep your place.

Quick first pass: what are the risks in this vendor proposal?

Three stand out: the contract auto-renews, liability is uncapped, and payment terms shift to net-15. Enough for a first read; a deeper pass would catch the subtler clauses.

Good start. Now go deeper, switch to a bigger model and keep our thread.

Picking up with the whole proposal still in context, now with more room to reason.

Beyond those three: the indemnity is one-sided, the SLA promises uptime but offers no credits if they miss it, and “confidential information” is defined narrowly enough to leave your usage data out. I'd push back on the indemnity and add SLA credits before signing.

Start a chat on an online model and finish it on one running on your machine, without losing your place. Copy a chat to compare two answers side by side, or move the whole thing when a model disappears.

Tools

Models that can actually do things.

Integrations

Tools your model can call, with your permission.

Web Search

Exa
ExaOn

Neural web search built for AI

web_searchfind_similarget_contentsresearch_papersanswer
Tavily
Tavily

Search, extract & crawl for agents

Communication

GmailOn

Read & send email

list_unreadsearch_mailread_threadsend_emailcreate_draftreply_threadadd_label
SlackOn

Post and read messages

post_messagelist_channelsread_channelsearch_messagesreply_threadupload_fileset_status
Outlook

Mail & contacts

Microsoft Teams

Chat and channels

Zoom

Meetings & recordings

Discord

Servers and messages

Twilio

SMS and voice

Productivity

Google CalendarOn

Manage your schedule

list_eventscreate_eventupdate_eventfind_free_timedelete_event
Notion

Notes, docs, wikis & databases

Google Sheets

Read & write sheets

Google Docs

Create and edit docs

Storage

Google Drive

Files and docs

Dropbox

Cloud file storage

Box

Enterprise content

OneDrive

Microsoft file storage

SharePoint

Team sites & docs

Developer

GitHub

Repos, issues, PRs & Actions

GitLab

Repos and pipelines

Bitbucket

Repos and pipelines

Sentry

Errors & root-cause analysis

Hugging Face

Models, datasets & Spaces

Linear

Issues, projects & cycles

Jira & Confluence

Atlassian Cloud

PagerDuty

On-call & incidents

Datadog

Metrics & monitors

CRM & Sales

Salesforce

CRM records & reports

HubSpot

Contacts & deals

P
Pipedrive

Sales pipeline

Intercom

Customer messaging

Support

Zendesk

Support tickets

Freshdesk

Helpdesk & tickets

Project Mgmt

Asana

Tasks and projects

Trello

Boards and cards

Monday.com

Work OS boards

ClickUp

Tasks and docs

Airtable

Spreadsheet-database

Finance

Stripe

Payments & invoices

QuickBooks

Accounting & books

Xero

Accounting

Brex

Cards & expenses

Shopify

Orders & products

N
NetSuite

Cloud ERP & accounting

C
Coupa

Spend, procurement & invoices

Data

Snowflake

Cloud data warehouse

Databricks

Lakehouse & notebooks

BigQuery

Serverless analytics

Tableau

Dashboards & views

Power BI

Reports & dashboards

Design

Figma

Design files & comments

Enterprise

ServiceNow

ITSM & workflows

SAP

ERP, procurement & supply chain

DocuSign

E-signature & agreements

HR

Workday

HCM, payroll & finance

Greenhouse

Applicant tracking & hiring

Security

Okta

Identity, SSO & access

Splunk

SIEM, logs & alerts

Marketing

Marketo

Marketing automation & leads

Local

FilesystemOn

Read & write local files

read_filewrite_filelist_dirsearch_filesmove_file

Renegade gives your AI real tools, so it gets work done instead of just talking, always with your say-so. Use the tools built in, or add your own. Even models on your machine get to use them.

Co-work

It doesn't just chat. It gets the work done.

PDFacme-msa.pdfPDFglobex-saas.pdfPDFinitech-dpa.pdfPDFumbrella-nda.pdfPDFstark-sow.pdfPDFwayne-license.pdfPDFhooli-renewal.pdf

I attached our seven vendor contracts. Which ones auto-renew, and what's our total annual exposure?

Thought process

Seven documents. I'll extract renewal clauses, notice windows, and annual fees from each, then total the exposure.

Read 7 documentsrenewal + fee terms

Three of the seven auto-renew, and two have notice windows closing soon:

What needs attention

  • Acme MSA: auto-renews Aug 1, 60-day notice. $240k / yr.
  • Globex SaaS: auto-renews Sep 15, 30-day notice. $96k / yr.
  • Hooli renewal: auto-renews Jul 20, notice window closes in 9 days. $180k / yr.
  • The other four are fixed-term and expire without renewal.
xlsxexposure-summary.xlsxTotal annual exposure: $812,400 across 7 vendors

Draft an email to legal flagging the Hooli deadline.

Here's a draft you can forward:

“Hi Legal, the Hooli contract auto-renews Jul 20 and the cancellation window closes in 9 days. It's $180k/yr. Please confirm whether we're renewing or need to send notice this week. Summary attached.”

Give the go-ahead and Renegade does real work for you: searches the web, reads your email, schedules tasks, sorts your files, builds spreadsheets, and writes up reports. It asks before every step. And models on your machine can do this too, not just the cloud ones.

Everything you get

One app. Total ownership.

Private chats on your own machine, real work getting done, free, open, and yours to keep.

Ownership

Yours, not rented.

Open models run on your own machine, private by default, and impossible to switch off from the outside.

  • Free forever and fully open source
  • No account, no login, nothing tracking you
  • Works offline, no kill-switch to pull
Model freedom

Any model, no lock-in.

Pick from dozens of open models in a built-in store, and move between them without losing your work.

  • Get Qwen, Llama, Gemma, DeepSeek and more, no console
  • Switch models mid-chat; your history comes with you
  • Save your chats and take them anywhere
Real capability

Models that do things.

Renegade can use tools, so your AI gets real work done, and it asks you before every step.

  • Built-in tools, plus your own when you need them
  • Web search, email, calendar, files, and more
  • Tools work on your own machine too, not just the cloud

Your model can vanish overnight. Download Renegade and own it.