AI Desktop 98

Name: AI Desktop 98
Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Author: Pritesh Desai

By: Pritesh Desai

Private AI, Retro Desktop

Features & Capabilities

Nostalgia is the wave of the future!

AI Desktop 98 wraps powerful AI assistants inside a fully interactive retro desktop, complete with a BIOS boot sequence, Start menu, taskbar, draggable windows, and authentic sound effects.

Choose your AI: run Apple Intelligence on-device, load local MLX models, or connect to cloud providers like OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Groq, and more — all from the Control Panel.

FEATURES

Full retro desktop — boot sequence, Start menu, taskbar, and windowed apps
Multiple AI backends: Apple Intelligence, local MLX models, or cloud APIs
11 cloud providers supported, including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, and LM Studio
Save, rename, search, and organize conversations in My Documents
Recycle Bin with restore for deleted chats
Built-in retro web browser
Customizable chat fonts and text sizes
Export and share conversations as plain text or Markdown
Find dialog to search across all saved chats
Keyboard shortcuts for power users
CRT monitor overlay for maximum nostalgia
Authentic retro sound effects
Minesweeper

PRIVACY On-device models run 100% locally — no internet required, no data collected, no accounts. Cloud API mode connects directly to your chosen provider using your own API key; nothing passes through our servers.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Pritesh Desai

Rating:

4.30

(10) 4.30

Version:

2.5 Last updated: 2026-06-12

Version code:

886674960

Creation date:

2026-03-25

Compatible devices:

Size:

1.83GB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-11

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 398,142 ▲ 928,353

Other rankings

#20 in desktop keyword 59 ▼ 3

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Developed by:

Pritesh Desai

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-desktop-98/id6761027867

User Reviews

I really like being able to use my local endpoints! Unfortunately it doesn’t work well with the endpoint my Hermes-agent exposes, but it works using raw LLM endpoints.

by ca*****, 2026-06-16

Fun for nostalgia but if you enable a glitchy model you’ll have to uninstall and restart due to a start loop. The built in Smol works great so keep with that. I tried Nemotron that gave me a desktop error due to MoE support, Mistral, which causes full unrecoverable app crash, and a Qwen 3 variant. Same crash unfortunately.