Show HN: Hitoku Draft – Context aware local assistant
Voice-first AI that actually stays on your machine. Hitoku Draft reads your screen, queries PDFs, drafts emails—all locally, all open-source.
Why it matters
A developer is shipping a context-aware local AI assistant that competes with cloud-based alternatives by running entirely on-device. This signals growing demand for privacy-first, offline-capable AI tools among non-technical users.
The key facts
12 to knowOpen-source, voice-first local AI assistant
Supports Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 for text generation
Multiple STT backends: Parakeet, Qwen3-ASR
Features: screen reading, PDF querying, email drafting, calendar events, web search, voice editing
Free download with code HITOKUHN2026 (base $5)
Posted on Hacker News (Show HN)
Cross-platform version in development
Target: AI-interactive local models for professionals
Open-source, voice-first AI assistant running entirely locally
Features: screen reading, document querying, email composition, calendar integration, web search, text editing via voice
Priced at $5 (promotional code HITOKUHN2026 for free download)
Posted on Hacker News with minimal engagement (5 points, 0 comments as of publication)
Go to the source
Hacker Newshitoku.me
Publisher excerpt: Hi guys. I have been working on Hitoku Draft, an open-source, voice-first AI assistant that runs entirely locally. I posted about it already, and now it has also transcription with voice editing. Looking for feedback, as I found that outside tech circles other people still do not use this tech…