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Make Your Technology

A fully customizable AI assistant and open-source everything app.

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YouCoded chat window
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What is this?

One app. Whatever you want it to be.

YouCoded is an AI assistant that does what you want, the way you want, with the screens and features you want. Hand it your files, your research and your writing. Ask it for a control panel for your house, a page for your money, or a game for a slow afternoon. Ask it to change its own look, give itself new features, or handle your requests in different ways. What exactly is YouCoded? That’s for you to decide.

It runs on whichever AI you choose: Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (ChatGPT), Alibaba (Qwen) and hundreds more, or an open model running privately on your own computer.

Nothing happens without your permission. YouCoded asks before taking actions.

Features

Yours to shape. Yours to use.

Make it yours

Describe the look you want.

Wallpapers, colors, mascots, fonts. Say what you are going for and the app changes to match. Not quite? Say so.

Your home, your way Sample page, not included

A smart-home panel, made by asking for one.

Not a built-in feature: a page one person asked for, for his own house, and uses every day. Lights, thermostat, speakers and TVs on one screen, arranged the way he wanted. Ask for yours and it will be different. The demo house here is fictional.

Your money, your way Sample page, not included

Every account on one page, made by asking for it.

Not a built-in feature either: a page built through the chat for one person’s real accounts, with the view he wished his bank had. Yours could track anything. The numbers here are invented.

Your whole device Built on Linux

Don’t just customize the app. Customize your whole device.

Build a new control center or quick settings chip for your Linux device, rearrange your desktop or files, or build real utilities that change how you interact with your computer. Swipe Keyboard for KDE Plasma is just one example of what’s possible.

Any model

Use whichever AI you like. Switch mid-conversation.

Hundreds of models through OpenRouter, Claude or OpenAI on your own subscription, or an offline model on your own computer. Your tools and conversations work the same with all of them.

Real work, edited live

Hand it a spreadsheet, get charts and analysis.

Attach a file and ask for what you want out of it. The assistant reads it, does the work, and hands it back in the panel beside the conversation, where you can open it, change it yourself, and hand it back for more.

You’re in control

Nothing happens without your permission.

It asks before it acts. Permission modes set how much it may do on its own, and every standing permission is listed on one screen where you can revoke it. The whole app is open source, so anyone can check what it does.

Stay organized

Projects, tags, notes and shortcuts.

Each project keeps its files, conversations and instructions together. Tag and annotate conversations, pin the ones that matter, hide the rest. Quick chips run the prompts you use every day in one tap.

Works everywhere

Start on your laptop. Finish on your phone.

Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, or any web browser through remote access. Conversations and files stay in sync through your own private GitHub, so you start on one device and resume on any other.

Play while it works

Multiplayer games, right beside the conversation.

Long tasks take a minute, so open the arcade in the side panel. Connect 4 or chess against a friend who is online, Flappy or 2048 on your own, then back to the answer when it is ready.

On the roadmap Roadmap

Hand it off.

Set up a job once: what to do, which tools it may use, where to stop and check with you. Then run it on a schedule or send it from your phone. Results and approvals land in an inbox.

Agents
Weekly grocery list
Inbox digest · 7am
Receipts → spreadsheet
Weekly grocery list
1 · Read this week's plan
2 · Draft the list
3 · Check with me before ordering
4 · Send to my phone
Inbox
Needs approval · Weekly grocery list · 2 min ago

Story

How we got here.

Read the story

I initially started building with AI because I wanted a cool and efficient way to journal and track my own tasks and goals. I eventually managed to develop a nifty journaling and life history system (now available in the YouCoded marketplace), and I felt compelled to share the new thing I had created. Unfortunately, the thought of installing and opening “Claude Code” in the terminal immediately scared away all of my friends. I realized that persuading others to adopt my fancy new journaling system and start building cool stuff themselves would require agentic intelligence to be much more accessible and user-friendly. Towards this end, I kind of just… kept adding things. And now we're here.

Every line of YouCoded was written through conversation with frontier LLMs by someone who has never written code. Every feature, every platform port, every theme, every multiplayer game. The entire app was built, and is currently maintained, without a single line typed by hand.

YouCoded is what AI looks like when it's built for everyone.

Built by Destin →

Get started

You may need a few accounts.

Required Free

GitHub

Keeps your conversations and files in sync across devices and delivers marketplace updates. Sign up with your Google or Apple account.

Create a GitHub account →
Optional Paid

Anthropic

A Claude Pro or Max plan lets you use Claude — the model YouCoded was built with.

See Claude plans →
Optional Paid

OpenAI

A ChatGPT plan lets you sign in and use OpenAI’s models on your subscription.

See ChatGPT plans →
Optional Pay as you go

OpenRouter

One account provides access to hundreds of models from every AI company. Pay only for what you use.

Create an OpenRouter account →
Optional Free

Google or Apple

An extra copy of your data in Google Drive or iCloud, on top of GitHub.

Create a Google account →or an Apple ID →

Or skip the paid ones entirely — run a model on your own computer, free and offline.

Common questions

FAQ

How is this different from ChatGPT or claude.ai?
Those are proprietary platforms that force you to work the way Anthropic or OpenAI designed. YouCoded is an open-source app that lives on your computer and works however you want it to — anyone can help build new features or fix bugs. Additionally, YouCoded works with models from any provider, which should reduce costs and improve competitiveness in the long run. You control your agent and your data, not a private company.
Do I have to pay for anything?
No, not really. The app is free and open source, and running AI models on your own computer costs nothing. If you want "best of the best" intelligence like Claude or ChatGPT, you can choose to pay an external AI inference provider of your choice from within the app.
Is my data private?
YouCoded does not receive the content you send to an AI model. If you choose a cloud model, the provider you choose — and, with OpenRouter, its underlying provider — receives that request under its own data-retention policy. A model running entirely on your computer does not send its inference request to a cloud model provider. That does not turn off other features you choose, such as sync, backups, web tools, or integrations. The app also sends one opt-out daily, privacy-preserving device heartbeat: a hashed device identifier, app version, platform, and rough region. It contains no message content or username. See Privacy for details.
What platforms does it run on?
Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, plus any web browser by connecting to a computer running the app. Apple integrations (iMessage, Apple Notes, and so on) work on macOS only.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. The whole app was built by someone who has never written code, by talking to AI. If you can use ChatGPT, you can use this.
Is "agentic" AI safe?
The app asks before it changes anything, and every standing permission you grant is listed on one screen where you can revoke it. AI still makes mistakes, so keep an eye on what it's doing — and be careful with full-auto mode, which lets it act without asking.
Who built this?
So far, it's just me (Destin). However, my intention is for this open-source project to become something we all build together. I believe one of the greatest potential goods of AI comes from its ability to revolutionize the world of open-source software. This project is just one example of what AI can allow us to create: an app owned by nobody, improved by everybody — all without anyone needing to learn how to code or even understand what “open-source” means. There's no profit motive and no ulterior incentives, because anyone can create their own copy of the app for free! Just people making cool shit and sharing it with other people :)