Snapshot
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- Rowboat is a local-first, open-source desktop AI coworker for Mac, Windows, and Linux that indexes your email, meetings, Slack, and conversations into a plain-Markdown knowledge graph stored on your machine.
More detail
- It uses that context to draft emails, take meeting notes, run background agents, drive an isolated browser, and run parallel coding agents, with a team collaboration layer called Spaces.
- Best for
- Privacy-conscious knowledge workers and small teams who want a self-hostable AI assistant with personal context kept on their own machine, and who are comfortable bringing their own model or keys.
- Pricing
- Free plan at $0/mo with limited daily usage.
More detail
- Starter is advertised as a $5–25 range, not a fixed price, and Pro as a $50–200 range; the exact tier determinant is undisclosed.
- Enterprise is contact/custom with an undisclosed amount and customized setup.
- Using your own OpenAI/Anthropic/Google keys or
- Main limitation
- Enterprises needing a centrally managed cloud-hosted SaaS, non-technical users who want zero setup, and anyone without a Mac, Windows, or Linux machine, since no mobile or web-only option is advertised.
- Record
- Living and monitored
- Reviewed
- Evidence
- Public web research
- Machine access
- Structured profile ↗
About
- Rowboat is a local-first, open-source desktop AI coworker for Mac, Windows, and Linux that indexes your email, meetings, Slack, and conversations into a plain-Markdown knowledge graph stored on your machine.
- It uses that context to draft emails, take meeting notes, run background agents, drive an isolated browser, and run parallel coding agents, with a team collaboration layer called Spaces.
What it helps with
- Personal work context is fragmented across email, meetings, Slack, and notes instead of living in one connected place.
- Email overload makes it hard to separate important messages from the rest and to draft replies in your own voice.
- Meeting capture and summaries require manual note-taking rather than an automated local notetaker.
- Cloud AI tools expose personal context outside your machine, raising privacy concerns.
- Teams lack a way for each person's AI assistant to collaborate in shared channels and files while keeping private contex
Capabilities
A practical view of what is available and where limitations apply.
| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Local knowledge graph | Yes | Obsidian-style backlinked graph of email, meetings, Slack, and conversations stored as plain Markdown on your machine. |
| Email client with context-aware drafts | Yes | Sorts importance and auto-drafts replies using your work context, learning your voice. |
| Background agents | Yes | Event- or schedule-triggered agents that can use tools, web search, browser, and coding agents. |
| Built-in isolated browser | Yes | For assistant-assisted web tasks with controlled logins. |
| Meeting notetaker | Yes | Local mic/speaker capture with live transcript and Markdown summary. |
| Parallel coding agents | Yes | Code mode runs Claude Code and Codex agents in parallel. |
| Team Spaces | Yes | Channels, threads, DMs, polls, shared wiki, uploads, and live whiteboards; @rowboat invokes your own local agent, with an MCP server exposed. |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Rowboat-provided models or your own ChatGPT subscription, Claude Code, Codex, Ollama, or LM Studio. |
| Self-hosting and source access | Yes | Apache 2.0 licensed and self-hostable. |
| Mobile or web-only app | No | No mobile or web-only option is advertised; desktop only. |
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- Last reviewed
- Primary source
- rowboatlabs.com
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