I launched an offline AI that does chat, image gen, TTS and voice cloning — here's what happened in the first 5 days (real numbers)

Five days ago I launched Pocket Core AI at getpocketcore.com. This is an honest account of what happened.

THE PRODUCT

Pocket Core AI is a desktop app that runs four AI capabilities completely offline — no internet connection required during use:

• AI chat (Llama 3 / Phi-4, uncensored)

• Image generation (FLUX.1-schnell)

• Text to speech (Kokoro-82M, 10 voices)

• Voice cloning (XTTS-v2, 6 seconds → 17 languages)

Plus a USB Ghost Mode that runs the entire app from a flash drive and leaves zero trace on the host machine.

One-time pricing: $49 Starter / $89 Pro / $249 Team / $149 Flash Drive.

No subscription. Ever.

WHY I BUILT IT

I was paying $129/month across three AI tools:

• ChatGPT Plus: $20/month

• ElevenLabs: $99/month (voice cloning)

• Midjourney: $10/month

All three had the same problems:

1. They read everything I type

2. They refused legitimate research questions

3. They stopped working without internet

4. They could raise prices whenever they wanted

So I spent 6 months building the offline version of all three combined.

THE STACK

For anyone technical:

• Electron shell + Python FastAPI backend

• llama.cpp for local inference

• FLUX.1-schnell via diffusers (images)

• Kokoro-82M via ONNX (TTS)

• XTTS-v2 (voice cloning)

• SearXNG client (optional web search)

• Hardware fingerprint + JWT (licence binding)

• Railway (licence server) + Resend (email)

• Hostinger Horizons (website)

• PayPal (payments)

• Cloudflare R2 (file hosting)

Built by me, alone. Based in South Africa.