Local-first desktop AI agent for business automation with knowledge, tools, and scheduled workflows
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Pricing model
Freemium
Freemium
Pricing
Free plan available. hark pro² at $20/month with 2× more usage. hark pro³ at $100/month with 10× more usage. All features available in all plans; upgrading increases usage capacity.
Community (free), Go ($5.00/month), Plus ($10.00/month), Pro ($30.00/month)
Key features
Persistent memory to tailor responses based on shared context
Computer use agent for browsing, research, and web tasks
End-to-end encryption for data security
Action Buttons for prioritized task completion
Email management and sorting
Flight booking and travel planning
Food ordering integration
Appointment booking and healthcare search
Expense auditing and savings recommendations
Tool-using AI chat with approved tool access and multi-step reasoning
Local business knowledge library with grounded AI assistance
Skills, plugins, and MCP tool support for extensibility
Scheduled workflows with permission-gated automation
Document processing and summarization
Customer communication drafting with human review
Browser-assisted research for gathering public information
Operations dashboard for reviewing task status and workflow priority
Task transcripts and reviewable work outputs
Local data storage with no cloud requirement by default
What makes it different
Operates its own secure computer with full browser for independent task execution
End-to-end encryption vault for sensitive data protection
User approval required before performing sensitive actions
All features available across free and paid tiers
Open-source codebase publicly available on GitHub for inspection and contribution
Local-first architecture keeps business data on user's machine by default
Permission-gated automation with human review before actions execute
Free Community plan with no cost to start
Desktop app works offline without account requirement for local use
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