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From the Bun Agents team

Product updates, guides, and insights on offline-first productivity, local AI, and why your data belongs to you.

AI & Local
Why local AI is the future of personal productivity — and how Bun Agents fits in
In 2025, AI-powered tools are everywhere — but almost all of them send your data to the cloud. We explore how offline-first architecture and on-device AI create a fundamentally different approach to smart productivity, and what that means for your privacy as models like Gemini Nano, Phi-3, and Llama 3 become small enough to run in the browser.
Apr 2025 · 8 min read Read more
Product
Introducing Bun Agents — your personal productivity ecosystem
Why we built an offline-first, privacy-respecting suite of productivity tools instead of yet another SaaS subscription that holds your data hostage.
Apr 2025 · 6 min Read
Guide
Offline-first vs. cloud-first: what the research says about productivity and data ownership
When Notion goes down, your meeting notes disappear. When Todoist has an outage, your deadline reminders stop firing. We compare offline-first and cloud-first architectures — and why the tradeoffs matter more than you think in 2025.
Mar 2025 · 7 min Read
Guide
Why we store your data in SQLite in the browser — and why it's faster than you'd expect
Most apps phone home with every keystroke. Here's how Bun Agents uses OPFS-backed SQLite to keep everything on your device with near-native performance — even on mobile.
Feb 2025 · 9 min Read
AI & Local
The AI tools privacy problem: your tasks, notes and habits are training their models
ChatGPT, Notion AI, and Todoist AI all have one thing in common — your personal data is processed on their servers. We look at what popular AI productivity tools actually do with your data, and what a local-first alternative looks like.
Mar 2025 · 6 min Read
News
Why $1.99/month — our pricing philosophy
We believe good productivity tools shouldn't cost more than a coffee. In a market where Notion charges $16/month and Obsidian Sync $10/month, here's the thinking behind our one-price model that covers everything.
Jan 2025 · 4 min Read
Guide
Installing Bun Agents as a native app on iOS, Android & desktop
A step-by-step guide to adding Bun Agents to your home screen for a full-screen, fast-launch experience on any device — no app store required.
Jan 2025 · 3 min Read
Product
Building a plugin system on top of browser SQLite
How the Bun Agents plugin architecture lets each tool own its schema, queries, and UI while sharing a single offline database engine with zero conflicts.
Dec 2024 · 10 min Read
Update
Cloud sync with 3-way merge — how it works under the hood
A deep-dive into how Bun Agents resolves conflicts when the same data is edited on multiple devices simultaneously while offline, without losing any changes.
Nov 2024 · 8 min Read
News
Productivity app fatigue is real — here's why you have 12 apps for one job
The average knowledge worker now uses 5-7 separate productivity apps. Each one is a separate subscription, a separate login, and a separate data silo. We look at the market trend toward consolidation and why all-in-one is winning.
Oct 2024 · 5 min Read