Windows · Free and open source
The same offline AI as the Android app, as a Windows program. You ask, it searches its own library and answers with the source. Once it's set up, it needs no internet, and nothing leaves the machine.
8:42 pmA quiet evening. You have a question.
8:43 pmThen the internet goes out.
8:43 pmBOAR doesn't notice. It answers from the library on your computer, with the source.
Your libraryEvery pack you add makes it know more, and the boar grows up.
Watched folderDrop a file in a folder you chose. A minute later, you can ask about it.
Free · Windows 10 and 11Works with the internet off. For as long as you need.
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Median of the app's own benchmark (26 questions) on a Windows PC with an NVIDIA GTX 1650 running Qwen2.5-1.5B, 10 October 2026: 62 tok/s, first word after 0.25 s.
Install
BOAR-Setup.exe installs for your user only. No administrator password, and it adds BOAR to the Start menu.
The installer isn't digitally signed yet, so SmartScreen shows a blue warning. Click More info, then Run anyway. The code and every build are public on GitHub.
The first time, BOAR downloads its AI model (about 1 GB) and builds its library. From then on it works with the internet off.
To check the file, compare its SHA-256 with SHA256SUMS.txt (in PowerShell: Get-FileHash BOAR-Setup.exe). Uninstalling keeps your models and chats in %APPDATA%\BOAR.
First run
The first time, the app checks your hardware, downloads the AI model and builds the local library. After that you can switch off Wi-Fi.
Your documents
Field manuals, protocols, your own notes: the file becomes part of the library, and the answer points to where it found the information.
The PDF in this example was made for the demo: "boil river water for 3 minutes at Camp Tamandua".
Built for a big screen
Your conversations in a sidebar, answers in a column made for reading, and the keyboard for everything.
Made for a computer
Say the question: whisper transcribes Portuguese or English on the PC. The voice model (60 MB) downloads only if you accept it. Answers can be read aloud.
Point BOAR at a folder and new files join the library by themselves, with a notification and a little boar in the system tray.
A name, a tone and which collections it may read, applied to a whole conversation. Ask only your contracts, or only your field manuals.
Locks the app and encrypts your chats on disk, with a key sealed by the PIN and by your Windows account.
Claude Desktop, Cursor and other MCP apps can search the collections you choose, read-only, with the source of each passage.
OpenAI-compatible, on 127.0.0.1 only, with tokens you create in the app. Scripts get BOAR's answers with their sources.
Why it matters
Questions, documents and answers stay on the computer. The only connections are the downloads you start, like the model the first time.
For an expedition, a crisis zone or a blocked network: after setup, airplane mode changes nothing.
Every answer lists where it came from, so you can check it instead of taking it on trust.
Questions
The code is open on GitHub, and every installer is built there by GitHub Actions from a tagged version, with a signed build record. Windows warns because the installer has no paid code-signing certificate yet, not because of anything in it. To check a download: gh attestation verify BOAR-Setup.exe --repo Bielcx/boar-desktop, or compare its SHA-256 with the release's SHA256SUMS.txt.
No. Any graphics card with Vulkan (NVIDIA, AMD or Intel) makes answers much faster, and without one BOAR runs on the processor. The default model is about 1 GB.
Yes, after the first setup. The only connections are the ones you start: downloading a model or a knowledge pack, or searching Hugging Face for other models. No account, no analytics.
Yes, and open source under the MIT license. There's no paid version.
Download the installer again and run it over the old version. Your models, documents and chats stay.
Windows Settings › Apps › BOAR › Uninstall. Your data stays in %APPDATA%\BOAR in case you come back; delete that folder to remove it too.
Good to know
Windows only for now. Mac and Linux need packaging, and the Mac needs an Apple developer account.
Portuguese is still weaker than English when searching the library. That's the next planned improvement.
The bigger model is slower. Setup recommends Qwen3-4B, which got almost twice as many facts right as Qwen2.5-1.5B in our internal test (15 of 18, against 8; October 2026), but it wants 12 GB of RAM and is fastest with a 4 GB graphics card. On a lighter PC, pick Qwen2.5-1.5B; you can switch later in the app.
The installer isn't digitally signed yet, so Windows shows a warning on the first run (see Install).
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