OpenClaw
Open assistant on your computer you message from WhatsApp or Telegram.
FreeOpen sourceRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Techies wanting a 24/7 home agent
- On your PC
- Technical
- Works on
- Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone
- License
- MIT
What’s good
- Hugely popular, about 394,000 GitHub stars
- Chat with it from apps you already use
- Swap in any model, including local ones
Downsides
- Serious security holes; many setups exposed online in 2026
- Add-on skills from its store have included malware
- Runs tools on your computer unless you set up sandboxing
The details.
- Works on
- Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android
- Open source
- Yes, MIT
- Made by
- OpenClaw community
- Website
- openclaw.ai
Should you use it?
It is #10 of 11. Good for techies wanting a 24/7 home agent; for most people, Claude in Chrome and Cowork is the better start.
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Technical: command line or python.
Use Installer script, npm or Docker.
- You need
- Mac, Windows or Linux; a local 8B model needs 8 GB RAM
- Setup
- TechnicalCommand line or Python
- Laptop, 8 GBRuns
- PC, 16 GB+Runs
- Mac, 16 GBRuns
- Mac, 32 GBRuns
- Mac, 64 GB+Runs
- PC, 8 GB GPURuns
- PC, 12 GB GPURuns
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns