Forty-seven tabs. Three of them important.
Save the page, not the tab. GlassyKeep tucks links into searchable collections — and the Glassy Capture extension does it in one keystroke.
On-device AI — private & free forever
Keep it Glassy
The second brain for you and your agents.
The workspace for people who think in 47 tabs, 12 notebooks, and a phone full of unlabeled voice notes.
Same software, three places to run it: our cloud, your machine, or your own server — with no Glassy server in the path.
Local-first Files on your disk. Always. No tracking. No ads. No training. Markdown-native. Export anytime.
See Glassy in 100 seconds
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Product tour
Sound familiar?
You're not disorganized. You just have more ideas than a single tool can hold.
A voice memo at 2 a.m. you'll never find.
Voice Studio transcribes locally with Whisper — your audio never leaves the browser. Search the transcript, not the silence.
Eight hundred saved links. Three of them read.
Read-later that actually surfaces. GlassyKeep tags, summarizes, and groups by meaning — so the good ones come back to you.
Notes in five apps. None of them home.
One page for the daily note, the long doc, the quick capture, and the napkin idea. Your Second Brain indexes everything so you can query it from Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, Hermes, Openclaw, Pi, or any MCP agent. File-based. Portable. Yours next decade too.
Glassy isn't another app on the pile. It's the page you actually open.
Where it runs
Where your data lives.
Free and paid are not feature tiers here. They answer two questions: how much do we hold for you, and who is accountable when you publish.
Owned
Your machine
A home appliance or your own server. No storage quota, no sync budget, no one reaching in. Free with any Glassy account.
Run it yourself → Private hosted
Our cloud
app.glassy.fyi, signed in to your own account. Every ability for everyone; a plan adds room, speed, and publishing.
See what a plan buys → Public hosted
The open web
Public windows served from our domain. Publishing needs a paid account, because public content needs someone accountable behind it.
How publishing works →Same software in all three. Your notes stay Markdown, and they leave with you.
The actual app
The app, not a render.
Real frames from a running Glassy: the notes you pinned, the graph your links made, and the pair that keeps the data yours.
Built for how you think.
Pick the workflow that already sounds like yours. Glassy meets you there — it doesn't ask you to convert.
Second Brain builders
Turn bookmarks, notes, and vault files into a searchable knowledge base. Query it from Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, Hermes, Openclaw, Pi, or any MCP agent — your data stays on your server.
Obsidian power users
Keep your vault. Add a calm cockpit on top. Browse, search, push & pull from any browser — your Markdown stays Markdown.
Neurodivergent organizers
Designed for brains that work in bursts. One-keystroke capture, reduced-motion respected, archive over delete. No streaks weaponized against you.
Students & researchers
Local Whisper transcribes lectures — your audio stays in the browser. GlassyKeep summarizes sources. Search every note, doc, and recording by meaning.
Writers & creators
A page that feels good to open. Slash-command editor, custom doc icons, rich embeds, and a publishing surface that doesn't look like a SaaS dashboard.
One workspace. The whole job.
Capture, think, surface — in one calm page. Stop app-hopping. Start finishing.
Free Forever
AI that stays on your device.
Grammar, tags, summaries — free, local, forever
Qwen 2.5 and Whisper run inside your browser via WebGPU. Grammar fixes, tag suggestions, voice transcription — no API keys, no credits, nothing uploaded. Cloud AI is opt-in for the harder work, and every free account gets local AI for life. Your Second Brain knowledge base is queryable by Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, Hermes, Openclaw, Pi, and any MCP-compatible AI agent via a real MCP server.
Pro+
Talk it out. Read it back.
Local Whisper · your audio never leaves the browser
Record a memo, get a clean transcript, let AI lift the action items. The whole pipeline runs on your machine — not a single byte of audio is uploaded.
⌘K
Find any thought in two keys.
Text + meaning, in one search
Notes, documents, voice transcripts, bookmarks — ⌘K searches them all at once. Match by exact words or by what you actually meant. If you remember the shape of the idea, Glassy finds the file.
Documents that read like you write.
Slash commands, callouts, embeds, doc icons
Press / for headings, callouts, code, and rich embeds. Give each doc its own icon so you spot it instantly. YouTube, Spotify, any media link drops in as a native widget — no more "open in new tab."
Pro
GlassyKeep + Glassy Capture.
A read-later that actually surfaces
One-keystroke save from the Glassy Capture extension. Screenshot any page and embed the image directly in your note. AI auto-tags and summarizes. Smart Collections group by meaning. Search the eight hundred bookmarks you forgot you had — the good ones come back.
Deep Integration
Your Obsidian vault, in any browser.
Browse, search, push & pull — the foundation for AI agent memory
Connect your vault and Glassy respects every folder, every wikilink, every frontmatter field. Read and search from any browser. Your files never leave your disk. Now live: query your vault through the Glassy MCP server from Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, Hermes, Openclaw, Pi, or any MCP agent — no separate install.
Write together. Cursors and all.
Real-time multi-cursor collaboration
Invite a friend or a teammate. See cursors fly in sync. No ceremony — just a link and you’re both in the doc.
RSS, without the doom-scroll.
Image-forward feed reader, built in
Curated feeds, custom URLs, or any Public Window. Read on your terms — scroll what you want, when you want, no algorithm telling you to stay.
Agentic
You and your agents, holding the same tools.
One workspace, one graph, one canvas — for you and your AI agents. The agent doesn't sit outside your work. It sits in it.
Memory
Your agent remembers. It saves what you told it as a real note — searchable, graph-linked, and scoped to that agent. Next session it recalls the decision instead of asking again.
Approval
It asks before it acts. The review queue shows each choice and its consequence, and the note itself carries the verdict — approved, changes requested, under review.
GlassyCanvas
A canvas for thinking that isn't linear. You and your agent work the same surface.
Mission Control
The agent's work, where you can see it. Plans, dispatches, and reviews — not a black box.
The agent graph
Your knowledge, connected. The graph you browse is the graph your agents query — backlinks, paths, hubs, orphans.
MCP + Agent Gateway
42 tools on the official MCP SDK. On our cloud, one key per account with a tier budget; on your machine, a named key per agent and no budget.
Self-host
Run it yourself. Keep it yours.
Glassy Self-Host is the same Glassy on your own machine — private, local, self-owned, in beta and under active development. The full AI suite, or just a calm workspace. Your server, your keys, your rules.
Ecosystem
It grows with you.
Companion apps, skills, and workflows. Clear members get finished code projects and pipelines, ready to run.
Glassy Capture
Your instant intake. Grab webpages, screengrabs, and quick notes from the app you're already in.
Skills
Abilities you add. The ways Glassy learns new tricks.
Workflows
Routines you repeat. The Glassy Capture Workflow chains capture → organize → summarize.
Built in the open
Trust the trail,
not the pitch.
Glassy is still young. So we would rather show what shipped, what changed, and what the product refuses to do than decorate the page with borrowed certainty.
Glassy is the first app that doesn't punish me for thinking sideways. The Second Brain is the only one that remembers what I meant, not what I typed.
Founding beta tester · Wendy W. · Day 142
Changelog first
Every meaningful change leaves a trail.
Pricing, local AI, privacy, storage, and extension work are written down as they ship, so the story does not drift away from the product.
Second Brain / MCP
A real knowledge layer, not vaporware.
Forty-two tools on your own machine, 37 on our cloud — included with every account, Free too. Named per-agent keys, durable agent memory, and a traversable knowledge graph. Every tool is listed in the docs, and the counts are machine-checked against the running build.
No growth tricks
No streaks. No red badge theater.
The product is designed for return, not retention hacks: capture first, organize later, and keep the interface quiet by default.
ND-affirming by design
Quieter by design. Kinder by default.
ADHD, autistic, AuDHD — every brain that does its best work in bursts deserves a workspace that doesn’t punish the burst. Glassy’s defaults come from real research on executive function and sensory processing, not productivity Twitter.
Read the design principlesCapture first, decide later.
One keystroke opens a blank page. Voice, sketch, text, clipboard — into the workspace in under three seconds. No empty folders to fill first.
Scannable by sight.
Color-coded cards, emoji icons, distinct shapes, and curated themes. Read the layout, not just the words.
Cognitive scaffolding, not surveillance.
On-device AI cleans up brain-dumps, expands bullets, and turns memos into tasks — without sending your day to a server.
No shame mechanics.
No streaks weaponized against you. No angry red overdue badges. Reduced-motion respected. Archive over delete. Your pace is the right pace.
Your data never leaves your browser
Your AI stays on your machine.
Most AI tools route your thoughts through someone else’s server. Glassy runs real models inside your browser via WebGPU. No cloud required. No credits consumed. Nothing leaves your machine unless you ask.
Running today
Qwen 2.5 (0.5B / 1.5B / 3B)
Instruct-tuned local LLMs. Summarize, rewrite, tag — entirely in your browser tab.
Whisper Base + Small
On-device speech-to-text. Voice memos arrive as cleanly written notes.
MXBai + MiniLM (384-dim)
Local embedding models power semantic search and tag clustering without a server.
How it actually works
WebGPU acceleration
Models run on your GPU, not someone else's data center.
Two runtimes
transformers.js + WebLLM, picked per task for speed.
Smart routing
Glassy picks the smallest local model that handles the job. When a query needs a larger context window or a harder task, it routes to your configured cloud provider — OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Cloud is opt-in; you stay in control.
Download once
Cached in IndexedDB. Works offline forever after.
Chrome built-in AI (Tier 0)
On Chrome 138+ with the Prompt API enabled, Glassy uses Gemini Nano — zero download.
This is genuinely new territory. We're excited to be here.
Local AI in the browser is bleeding-edge. Models are getting smaller and more capable every month. Browser GPU APIs are still maturing. Here's exactly what's on our radar.
Gemma 4 E2B / E4B
Tracking WebLLM prebuiltsNewer Google open weights designed for on-device use. Native audio input + structured JSON. Transformers.js already supports the architecture — waiting on WebLLM WASM prebuilts to ship (no ETA as of June 2026).
EmbeddingGemma
Drop-in upgrade pathHigher-quality on-device semantic embeddings from Google. Direct upgrade target for the MXBai/MiniLM tier — same 384-dim local pipeline, better recall.
Moonshine ASR
Evaluating for Voice StudioMore efficient than Whisper for live transcription. Smaller footprint, designed for streaming audio. Potential drop-in for the Voice Memo pipeline.
The real questions.
The objections we hear most often — answered honestly, in plain English.
- Your bookmarks, notes, documents, voice transcripts, and Obsidian vault files — automatically indexed into a searchable knowledge base. Query it from Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, Hermes, Openclaw, Pi, or any MCP-compatible AI agent. Your corpus stays on your server; only the specific query leaves your machine.
- Glassy is not trying to erase your vault. It gives Markdown-shaped work a calmer web surface, local AI, capture tools, and sharing when you want them.
- Supported AI actions run on your device when your browser and hardware allow it. Cloud AI is explicit, optional, and reserved for work that needs more than the local model can handle.
- Your account data syncs when you use hosted Glassy. Local AI prompts stay on-device for local actions; cloud AI requests only leave when you choose that path. When a query routes to cloud, only the relevant captures for that query are sent — not your whole library.
- Export to Markdown and keep your files. Glassy should make your work more useful, not hold it hostage.
- Self-hosting is part of the Glassy path. The app ships as a Docker-based stack and we document the process honestly — every step, every tradeoff, nothing glossed over.
- Yes. Glassy Capture supports Firefox 121+. All capture modes — Quick Save, highlights, element pick, and screenshots — work in Firefox. The Side Panel feature (Ctrl+Shift+P) is Chrome/Edge-only; Firefox users use the popup instead.
- Screenshots are stored on your Glassy server — `app.glassy.fyi` for cloud accounts, or your own server for self-hosted instances. They live at uploads/captures/ on the server and are embedded as standard Markdown image links in the capture note. Nothing goes to a third-party image host.
- Yes, and it keeps your captures safe. If you save something while your Glassy server is unreachable, the Glassy Capture extension queues it locally and syncs automatically when the connection returns. You will see a badge on the toolbar icon showing the number of items queued. Nothing is dropped.
- Both, and neither. It is a workspace that respects nonlinear brains without making accommodations feel like a separate mode.
- There is not one. Free stays useful; Pro funds the heavier workspace pieces and cloud costs.
- Clear is the all-inclusive tier for people who want every current and future theme pack plus the highest-touch community access. Most people should start with Free or Pro.
- Yes. See /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt. We welcome crawlers that cite sources and respect publisher intent.
What is the Second Brain?
How is this different from Obsidian?
Is local AI actually local?
What leaves my device?
What happens if I want to leave?
Can I self-host?
Does the Glassy Capture extension work in Firefox?
Where are my screenshots stored?
Does Glassy work offline?
Is this an ADHD app or an autism app?
What's the catch with the free tier?
What is Clear?
Can AI assistants ingest your docs?
One free tier. Two paid tiers. No rush.
Start free. Move to Pro or Clear the moment the full workspace is worth it to you.
Checkout can happen first. Create or sign in with the same email after purchase to claim your workspace.
Free
Every ability. Ten megabytes to keep it in.
$0 forever
Storage 10 MB
- Notes, documents, bookmarks, and daily pages
- GlassyKeep, GlassyCalc, and Voice Studio
- Second Brain — your corpus, readable by any MCP client
- On-device AI — free forever
- Glassy Self-Host — run it on your own machine
Most popular
Pro
The same workspace, with room to keep it in.
$100 / year
≈ $8.33/mo · 2 months free
or $17/ month
Storage 200 MB
- Everything in Free — all of it
- 200 MB hosted storage
- MCP at 1,200 tool calls an hour (Free gets 120)
- The Zero Reliance Pair, included with Pro yearly
- Cloud Sync at full speed
Cancel anytime. Data retained 30 days after cancellation.
Membership
Clear
A private community inside Glassy. Every new tool, first.
$300 / year
≈ $25/mo · the whole community
or $80/ month
Storage 200 MB
- Everything in Pro
- Every current and future theme pack, included
- The Zero Reliance Pair — permanent for the first 2,000 founding members
- Private member community + feed, inside the app
- Every new feature and AI tool, first
Or run Glassy on your own machine — free with any account.
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Where to next?
Second Brain
Your knowledge base, readable by Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, Hermes, Openclaw, Pi, and any MCP agent.
For Writers
Draft, outline, and structure without leaving your flow.
For Students
Note-taking, reading lists, and research — all connected.
Browser Extension
Save bookmarks, captures, and highlights from any page.
Obsidian Users
Browse and search your vault from any browser.
Neurodiversity
Designed for ADHD, autistic, and AuDHD brains.
Pricing
Free forever, Pro for the whole workspace.
Documentation
Reference guides, keyboard shortcuts, and troubleshooting for every feature.
Glassy Learn
Guides, tutorials, and tips for getting the most out of Glassy.
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