Pinokio is now open to the community
From a one-person curated directory to a community-powered app network for local AI
Today the Pinokio community is officially open.
You’ve known Pinokio as a one-click directory of open-source AI apps, curated mostly by one person: me.
Starting today, Pinokio becomes a community-powered app network for local AI.
You can still install and run apps without an account. That hasn’t changed. What’s new is everything around the apps: questions, tips, official creator updates, follows, Radar notifications, check-ins, rollback points, and hardware compatibility.
“Cocktailpeanut’s list” to open community
In short: Pinokio is no longer just a static directory where you find launchers. It is where the community around each launcher lives—where YOU can contribute too.
It is live: https://pinokio.co (also available inside the “explore” tab in the desktop app)
Announcement on X:
Ok, so what makes the community useful? Here’s how it works:
1. Ask and Share
Ask questions. Report bugs. Show off your experiments. Share the tip that took you three hours to figure out.
2. Announce Your Project
Built a launcher? Now you can share it with the community.
Connect your GitHub once to verify ownership.
From then on, your posts appear as official updates on your launcher page.
Anyone can discuss a launcher in the community section. Verified owners get the official updates section.
Example: https://pinokio.co/apps/github-com-cocktailpeanut-stable-audio-3-small-pinokio
The official updates will ALSO show up on the global “launcher updates” section on the home page.
3. Follow launchers
Already using an app? Follow it to hear when there’s a new post in the community: a new tip, a fix, a heads-up about a breaking update.
Once you follow a launcher, you will get notified through your “Radar” whenever there’s an update in any of the projects you follow. Good way to stay on top of feature updates, security updates, usage tips, etc.
4. Get notified when a launcher drops
You hear about a hot new project, come to Pinokio, search for it... and there’s no launcher yet. Until now, that’s where it ended.
Now you can simply follow it instead, even before a Pinokio launcher exists for the project. As soon as someone builds a launcher, you will be notified through Radar.
To follow a project, first enter a github or huggingface URL in the search bar.
It should send you to the project page, where you can follow it with 1 click. If the project is not indexed yet, it will be automatically imported first:
Your follow is also a signal. Builders can see which projects people are waiting on, so the launchers you want are the ones that get made.
5. Follow people
Follow the people building the tools you like, and you will:
Be notified when they ship something new.
Be recommended of all the launchers they follow.
6. Check in — never lose a working setup again
Got an app running? Check in to save the exact version that worked. The community website will communicate with your locally running Pinokio to store your checkpoint along with the associated hardware information.
If a later update breaks (which happens A LOT with open source projects), you can roll right back to the build you know was good:
Furthermore, other users can also see what ran successfully on machines like theirs: OS, architecture, GPU, VRAM, RAM, and so on.
Every check-in makes Pinokio better at answering the one question that matters: WILL THIS RUN ON MY MACHINE?
The website lets you easily filter by platform, arch, gpu, ram, vram, and so on, so you can instantly find out if it will work on yours as well.
Conclusion
Until now, Pinokio was mostly curated by me. That helped get things started, but local AI is moving too fast for one person to be the bottleneck.
The next step is community-powered: builders can publish, users can ask and answer, everyone can follow what they care about, and every successful setup can become a checkpoint for the next person.
The goal is simple: make local AI apps easier to discover, install, trust, and keep running.
Pinokio is open: https://pinokio.co