How
So none of it leaves your Mac.
Bloks runs entirely on your Mac. Your agents, your conversations and your keys sit in ~/.bloks on your disk. There is no Bloks account, because there is no Bloks server to hold one.
The only thing that leaves this machine is the engine you picked, talking to the provider you already pay. Bloks is not in the middle.
No account
Bloks never asks who you are. No sign-up, no email, nothing to make.
It asks first
When an agent wants to do something that matters, it stops and waits for you.
Nothing hidden
A skill is just markdown. You read all of it before it goes near an agent.
Yours to keep
Read every line, build it yourself, run it at any company size. The one thing you cannot do is sell Bloks itself.
Who
Describe the job. Meet them a minute later.
Pick a role and it is made on the spot, named for the job, carrying that role’s skills. Or describe the job in a sentence and Bloks proposes the name, yours to change. Either way the agent opens with one question about how you want to work together, then gets on with it.
What
One agent is useful. Six is a company.
Give one a job and it starts. Add another when the work outgrows it: one on the launch, one on research, one holding the inbox at zero. They run at the same time, pull each other into a room when the work overlaps, and the one you made most senior has the last word.
Everything they do lands in a thread you can read: the files they made, the commands they ran, and the one decision they need from you. Answer it at your desk, or from your pocket.
Why Bloks
An app, not a terminal. Yours, not theirs.
All three of these are good software, and each of them gets something right. OpenClaw and Hermes agree with us about the thing that matters most: your agents belong on your own computer, paid for with your own key. Grok Bot agrees with us about the other half, that a team of agents deserves a real app with names, roles and an approval before anything ships.
Nobody else does both. OpenClaw and Hermes are terminals, and they reach your pocket by routing through somebody else's chat app. Grok Bot is a proper app on your Mac and your phone, and the agents themselves live on a computer in xAI's cloud, with your mail and your files connected to it. Bloks is the one that is an application and stays on your machine.
| Question | Bloks | OpenClaw | Hermes | Grok Bot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where the agents run | Your Mac | Your machine | Your machine | xAI's cloud, on a computer of their own |
| What you install | A signed app. Drag it in. | Node 22.19+, and WSL2 on Windows | A terminal app | A Mac app and an iPhone app |
| Where you actually use it | Its own desktop app, and an iPhone app | A terminal. The GUI is a separate project | A terminal interface, not a web UI | Its own desktop and iPhone apps |
| How it reaches your phone | Straight to your Mac, sealed end to end | Through WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack or Signal | Through WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack or Signal | Through xAI's servers |
| When the work happens | While your Mac is awake | While your machine is awake | While your machine is awake | Around the clock, whether you are there or not |
| What the thinking costs | Your own subscription | Your own key | Your own key | A SuperGrok or Cursor subscription, on top of your own |
The trade is in the last two rows, and it is a real one. Grok Bot's agents keep working while you sleep because they are not on your computer. Ours stop when you shut the lid, because they are. That is the honest cost of the first row, and if round the clock matters more to you than where your mail lives, they have built the better thing for you.
What you get for that cost is that nothing has to be handed over. No mailbox connected to a stranger's datacentre, no files uploaded so an agent can read them, no second subscription on top of the one you already pay. When your phone needs to reach the work, it reaches your Mac: directly on your own network, and beyond it through a relay carrying ciphertext it cannot read, which is why a notification can say an agent needs you and can never say what about.
Checked against each project's own documentation in August 2026. If we have any of it wrong, tell us and we will fix it here.
Engines
Runs on what you already pay for.
Bring the agent you already run, or the key you already pay for. Connect the apps your work lives in. Bloks is the room they all work in.
Models and CLIs bring the one you already use
Apps and tools connect them from the chat
Switch an agent’s engine mid‑conversation and it keeps the thread. Ask it to use an app it cannot reach yet and a sign‑in card appears in the chat.
Install
Ten seconds, then say hello.
Download it, drag it in, say hello. Free forever, and no account to make.
One email on the day it clears review, and nothing else. The Mac app is ready now.
The iPhone app is with Apple for review. It pairs with your Mac and carries approvals to your pocket; leave an address above and you will hear on the day it is live. New here? Start with the docs.
Pricing
Free where it runs on yours. Paid where it travels through ours.
The desktop app costs nothing because it costs us nothing: it runs on your Mac, with your keys. The one thing we charge for is the one thing we actually run, a relay that lets your phone reach that Mac from outside the house.
Bloks
$0 forever
- The whole desktop app, not a trial
- Unlimited agents, rooms and automations
- Your own keys, your own machine
- Every feature on this page
Bloks Cloud Coming soon
Alongside the app
- Your agents on your phone, anywhere, once the app is live
- Push the moment one needs your answer
- A relay that cannot read what it carries
- One Mac, and as many of your own phones as you like
- Your Mac still runs everything, and still holds the keys
Bloks Teams
Talk to us
- Shared rooms across people
- Shared skill and team libraries
- Roles, admin and billing in one place
A person reads this list and writes back. There is no drip campaign behind it.
FAQ
Fair questions, short answers.
Is the desktop app really free?
Yes. Your own API keys, unlimited agents, no seat count, no expiry. It is not a trial and never turns into one. The source is public under FSL‑1.1‑MIT, so this is checkable rather than promised.
Where does my data live?
In ~/.bloks on your Mac: conversations, agent memory, keys, all of it. Back the folder up, move it to another machine, or delete it and be genuinely rid of the app. There is no Bloks account and no Bloks server holding a copy.
Do I need an API key?
You need at least one engine. If Claude Code, Codex or another agent CLI is already installed and signed in, that counts and no key is needed. Otherwise paste any provider key, sign into OpenRouter from Settings, or run Ollama.
What can agents actually do?
On a tool-running engine: read and write files, run commands, browse, use apps you have connected, and keep notes in their own memory. Anything consequential stops and asks you first, on the Mac or on your phone.
Can agents work together?
Yes. Put them in a room and address one with @name or just talk. Juniors answer first, the most senior speaks last, and they can hand work to each other mid-thread. Teams you like can be saved and rehired.
Can I connect my own tools?
Three ways. Connect apps like Slack or Gmail through the built-in connector cards, register any MCP server you already use, or let an agent request an API key with a secure field in the chat. Keys are stored on your Mac and never appear in the conversation.
What happens when I close the laptop?
They pause with it, and scheduled runs skip rather than pile up. Bloks Cloud does not change that and is not sold as though it did: it carries your phone to your Mac and buzzes you when an agent wants an answer, but the Mac is still the thing doing the work. Shut the lid and the work stops.
What does Bloks Cloud actually give me?
Two things. Reach: the iPhone app works away from your own network instead of only on the same wifi. Push: an approval can buzz a phone in your pocket rather than waiting for you to open the app. That is the whole product. It is not hosting, and the relay in the middle carries ciphertext it cannot read, which is why a push says an agent needs you and never says what about.
Is Bloks in the middle of my provider traffic?
No. The engine you picked talks to the provider you pay, directly. Bloks orchestrates on your machine and resells nothing, marks up nothing, and cannot read what it does not carry.
Bloks Cloud
Your Mac is still the machine. Your phone stops needing the wifi.
On your own network the iPhone app already talks to your Mac directly. Bloks Cloud is the part that keeps working from a train: a relay both ends dial into, and a push that can wake the phone in your pocket the moment an agent needs an answer.
The relay carries ciphertext. Your phone and your Mac agreed on a key while you were standing at both of them reading a six digit code off the screen, and the relay never saw it. It learns that a blob moved, how big it was and which space it belongs to. It does not learn what it said, which is why a push reads “An agent needs your approval” and nothing more.
What you are buying is reach and push, and only that. Your agents still run on your Mac with your own keys, and shutting the lid still stops them. Hosting them somewhere else would be a different and much larger product, and this is not it.
Tell me when it opensPriced when the iPhone app is live, and set up on the Mac that owns the space. Or watch releases on GitHub; every version lands there first.