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100% Local  ·  No Cloud  ·  One-Time Price

Stop paying $400+/mo
for tools that forget you.

14 specialist AI agents. One payment. Runs 100% on your machine — no subscriptions, no cloud, no data leaving your desk. Yours forever.

Buy Indie — $197
14 AI Agents
$0/mo Running Cost
100% Gross Margin
One-time License, not SaaS

What AppStudio replaces

GitHub Copilot$19/mo
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Linear / Notion$16/mo
+
Ahrefs / Semrush$99/mo
+
Security Scanner$49/mo
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Marketing Copywriter$200+/mo
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$380+/movs $197 once
Real screenshots

Your entire workflow,
one tool

No mockups. These are actual screenshots from AppStudio running on a real developer's machine.

localhost:5173 / dashboard
AppStudio Dashboard — idea pipeline, viability scores, top ideas
Track all your ideas across every stage. Viability scores, revenue scores, and pipeline health at a glance.
localhost:5173 / ideas
AppStudio Idea Vault — filterable idea list with tags and scores
Every idea you've ever had, searchable and filterable. Tags, categories, analysis scores, and verdicts all visible at a glance.
localhost:5173 / ideas / market-research-bot
AppStudio 7-step AI Analysis — market, competition, revenue, security
7-step streaming AI analysis: market sizing, competition mapping, revenue models, risk assessment, and a BUILD / VALIDATE / PIVOT verdict.
localhost:5173 / pipeline
AppStudio Kanban Pipeline — drag and drop idea stages
Drag ideas between Raw → Researched → Validated → Building → Live → Shelved. Your entire product portfolio on one board.
localhost:5173 / ideas / new
AppStudio New Idea form — capture idea with context
Capture an idea with full context — title, description, problem, audience, and notes. Press Ctrl+Space anywhere for instant capture without opening a form.
What it does

20+ agents do the heavy lifting.
You make the decisions.

Every AI call runs locally on your machine. Every insight stays yours. No cloud. No bill.

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Instant Capture

Press Ctrl+Space anywhere. Type your idea, hit Enter. Saved in under a second — no form, no friction, no lost ideas.

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7-Step AI Analysis

Market sizing, competition, revenue models, risk, and a BUILD / VALIDATE / PIVOT verdict — all streamed locally from your machine.

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Coder Agent

Points at your source folder. Scans real files. Generates bug fixes, new features, and complete scaffolds with before/after diffs — you approve every change before it hits disk.

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Security Agent

OWASP Top 10, auth review, injection checks, GDPR & ASVS compliance. Run it before you ship — not after an incident report.

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Full Marketing Suite

SEO package, press kit, 9-week launch campaign, community posts for HN/Reddit/Product Hunt, and live competitor intelligence — all generated from your actual product data.

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Local Knowledge Base

Upload docs, paste specs, or point at local files. BM25 + RAG-powered Q&A returns grounded answers with source citations — fully on-device, zero cloud.

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Idea Battle

Can't decide what to build next? Pit 2–6 ideas head-to-head. The AI scores each across market opportunity, revenue potential, execution ease, competitive moat, time-to-first-dollar, and solo dev fit — then declares a winner and tells you exactly which ideas to kill. Decision paralysis, eliminated.

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Real Demand Validation

Before you build, validate. AppStudio scans Reddit and Hacker News in real time, filters for genuine pain signals, and returns an AI demand score (0–100) with the actual posts as evidence. Ship what people already want.

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Built by KEYSEC

11 years U.S. Army. Cybersecurity engineer. CISSP & CEH certified. I spent a decade protecting critical systems — then spent another year paying $400+/month for fragmented SaaS tools that shared my data and still didn't talk to each other.

AppStudio is the tool I built for myself — and every other solo developer who ships serious software without a team, a budget, or a tolerance for vendor lock-in. It runs entirely on your hardware. Your ideas never leave your machine. There is no monthly invoice.

The security architecture isn't marketing — it's a career. Air-gapped deployment, local-only AI inference, and OWASP-aligned code review are built in because I know what the alternative costs.

CISSP Certified CEH Certified 11yr U.S. Army Cybersecurity Engineer Bootstrapped — no VC Solo builder
Differentiators

Things no other tool does

These aren't marketing bullets. They're genuinely novel capabilities that no comparable product ships today.

Unique

Your Coder AI Learns From Every Rejection

Reject a code suggestion, give your reason, and AppStudio distills it into a concrete rule — specific to your stack, your style, your codebase. Rules are injected into every future generation automatically. Hit "Bake Modelfile" and all accumulated lessons are permanently embedded into a custom keysec-coder Ollama model. Restart tomorrow and it already knows how you work. No cloud. No retraining. Just a model that gets smarter every time you push back.

End-to-end

Idea → Shipped Product, No App Switching

Most tools own one phase. AppStudio owns the whole journey. Capture an idea, run a 7-step market analysis, generate a roadmap, get code reviewed, run a security audit, produce marketing copy, plan your launch, design pricing tiers, and track revenue — all without opening another tab or touching another subscription.

Unique

On-Device RAG — No Cloud Required

Upload your own docs, paste API specs, or point at local files. AppStudio chunks and indexes them with BM25 search, then answers your questions with source citations in plain English — all running locally. No Pinecone account. No OpenAI embeddings bill. No data ever leaves your machine.

Revenue-first

Monetization Designed Before Line One

Most devs ship first, figure out pricing later — and leave money on the table. AppStudio generates 2–3 pricing tiers with conversion hooks, conservative-to-optimistic revenue forecasts, and a payment processor recommendation with FastAPI + React integration stubs before you've written a single function.

Solo-first

Zero Infrastructure, 100% Margin

No cloud API calls. No subscription to Anthropic, OpenAI, or anyone else. AppStudio runs entirely on your local GPU — Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, or any OpenAI-compatible server. Operating cost: $0/month. Every dollar of revenue is margin. No VC needed. No runway clock. No SaaS creep. Just ship and collect.

How it works

Up and running in 10 minutes.

One-time setup. Then just capture ideas and let the agents work.

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STEP 01

Install your local LLM

Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, or any OpenAI-compatible server. Pull qwen3:14b. AppStudio auto-detects it. Under 10 minutes.

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STEP 02

Run AppStudio

Windows: start.bat  ·  macOS/Linux: ./start.sh. Opens in your browser at localhost. Your data never leaves.

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STEP 03

Press Ctrl+Space

Capture your first idea from anywhere on your machine. The agents take it from there.

14 specialist agents built in
Analysis Project Manager Coder Security SEO Press Kit Campaign Planner Community Posts Competitor Intel Weekly Review Knowledge Base Changelog Monetization
Pricing

One-time. Yours forever.

No subscription. No seat fees that surprise you. Pay once, use indefinitely. Payment plans available on TEAM.

Indie
$197
one-time payment
12 months of major updates included
  • Unlimited ideas & analyses
  • 7-step streaming market analysis
  • Roadmap generator + daily coaching
  • Code reviewer with unified diffs
  • Feature generator & full scaffolding
  • Task implementation & test generation
  • Security agent — OWASP pentest + GDPR compliance
  • Import & analyse existing projects
  • One-time activation — runs fully offline after
  • Windows · macOS · Linux
Buy Indie
Most Popular
Builder
$397
one-time payment
24 months of major updates included
  • Everything in Indie
  • Full marketing suite — copy, landing page, ad copy
  • SEO agent — meta tags, schema, keyword sets
  • Press kit + launch campaign planner
  • Community post crafter (HN · Reddit · IH · PH)
  • Competitor intelligence — web scan + AI analysis
  • Pricing recommendations & monetization advisor
  • Investor pitch generator
  • Knowledge base — ingest files, query at analysis time
  • Weekly review dashboard & PDF report export
  • Modelfile Baking — fine-tune your local AI to your style
  • 24 months of major updates + priority support
Buy Builder
Team
$997
one-time · up to 10 seats
Or 3 × $349 payment plan
  • Everything in Builder
  • Up to 10 developer activations
  • Shared idea vault across the team
  • Centralised security overview
  • Shared Modelfile learning across seats
  • 24 months of major updates
Buy Team
Enterprise
$7,500+
per year · site license
Custom contract · invoiced
  • Everything in Team
  • Unlimited seats — site-wide license
  • Custom agent configurations
  • Dedicated onboarding & support
  • SLA & priority issue resolution
  • Annual updates included
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
Not happy for any reason? Full refund, no questions asked.

⟳  Update Pass — $49/year to keep receiving major version updates beyond your included window. Available for all tiers.

FAQ

Common questions

Can AppStudio actually build a complete app? ▾
Yes — from scratch. The Coder Agent can scaffold an entire project (every file, every config) from your idea description. Then you point it at your source folder to generate features, catch bugs, and review code with unified diffs. You approve or reject each change before it's written to disk. The full loop: idea → scaffold → build → security audit → ship, all inside AppStudio.
Does AppStudio send my ideas to the cloud? ▾
Never. All AI inference runs on your local machine through whichever provider you configure — Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, or any OpenAI-compatible server. No data is transmitted to any external server. Your ideas, analyses, and code reviews stay 100% local.
What GPU do I need? ▾
It depends on your model. qwen3:14b (recommended) needs ~10GB VRAM — an RTX 3080, 4070, or better. qwen3:8b runs on 6GB VRAM. No GPU at all? LM Studio and Ollama can run smaller models on CPU, though slower. Apple Silicon Macs use unified memory — an M1/M2 with 16GB runs qwen3:8b smoothly with no discrete GPU needed.
What AI providers and models does AppStudio support? ▾
AppStudio works with any OpenAI-compatible local server — Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, Koboldcpp, LlamaFile, and more. Go to Settings → AI Provider, enter your server URL and model name, and AppStudio uses it immediately. Any model your provider supports works. Recommended starting point: qwen3:14b on Ollama.
Where is my data stored? ▾
All data is stored in a single SQLite file in your user data directory — Windows: %APPDATA%\AppStudio\app_studio.db · macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/AppStudio/app_studio.db · Linux: ~/.local/share/AppStudio/app_studio.db. Back it up anytime by copying this file. Uninstalling AppStudio does NOT delete your data.
Can I import existing projects? ▾
Yes — Settings → Scan Paths → add your project root → click Import in the sidebar. AppStudio scans your project folders and creates idea entries for each detected project, ready for code review and analysis.
Does the license work offline? ▾
After a one-time online activation, AppStudio runs fully offline — no periodic check-ins, no call-home. The activation ties your key to your machine via Lemon Squeezy, then local cache handles everything. If you need to move to a new machine, deactivate first and reactivate on the new one.
Does AppStudio run on macOS and Linux? ▾
Yes — AppStudio ships native compiled installers for all three platforms. Windows gets a proper Inno Setup .exe installer (22.9 MB) with Start Menu integration and optional desktop shortcut. Linux gets a self-installing .AppImage (39.6 MB) — run it once and it copies itself to ~/Applications/, installs the desktop icon, and adds itself to your app menu automatically. macOS ships as a shell-script launcher package — download, unzip, and double-click. Apple Silicon Macs (M1+) run local AI extremely well on unified memory — no discrete GPU required. Ollama and LM Studio run natively on Apple Silicon.
What is the Modelfile Baking system? ▾
AppStudio observes which AI responses you approve and reject, then compiles that feedback into a custom Ollama Modelfile that permanently biases your local model toward your preferences and coding style. Available in Pro and above — no other local dev tool ships this capability.
How does the Competitor Intelligence agent work? ▾
Two modes. Web Scan fetches the competitor's live website and extracts real pricing, feature lists, review snippets, and positioning copy — data that's usually hours of manual research. AI Intel runs a deep strategic analysis using the AI's training data: weaknesses, attack vectors, feature comparison table, threat level rating, and specific ways you can out-position them. Results are stored per idea so you can track multiple competitors over time.
What does the Marketing Intelligence Suite generate? ▾
Five dedicated agents cover the full launch marketing stack: the SEO Agent writes meta tags, JSON-LD schema, keyword sets, and a speed checklist; the Press Kit Agent produces journalist-ready story angles, headlines, and boilerplate; the Campaign Planner generates a full 9-week pre/launch/post schedule with specific post copy; the Community Post Crafter writes platform-native posts for HN, Reddit, Indie Hackers, and Product Hunt; and the Copy Generator produces hero copy, taglines, email sequences, and ad copy. Everything is editable and copyable in one click.
What are webhooks used for? ▾
Webhooks let AppStudio push events to your own tools — Zapier, Make, Slack, a custom dashboard, or any HTTP endpoint. You can subscribe to events like analysis_complete, verdict_changed, status_updated, and security_scan_done. Each webhook is HMAC-SHA256 signed so your receiver can verify authenticity. Configure them in Settings → Webhooks. This is how you wire AppStudio into a broader toolchain without polling.

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Built by Richard Davidson

AppStudio is built and maintained by Richard Davidson — solo operator, 11 years U.S. Army, CISSP and CEH certified, focused on local-first AI tooling for developers and security professionals.

rdavidson@keysecnexus.com · CISSP · CEH · 11 years U.S. Army