What Is a Decent App?

A decent app is a fully local web app—everything, including the LLM, runs in the user’s browser.

A decent app respects users—it doesn’t track, manipulate, show ads, or send data elsewhere. Our architecture is built to guarantee this.

Create a “Hello, World” decent app in 30 seconds with our open-source tool. This gives you a React-based web app with UI, an LLM endpoint, and local data storage.

Zero-Cost Hosting

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With the LLM running in-browser, token costs are zero. Your app can prompt open-source models including Llama, Deepseek, Gemma, and many others. (full list)

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No database or backend service hosting costs either. Your only cost is web hosting—unless you join our free launch program to host from our portal, where we’ll cover that too. With this, you get push-to-deploy from GitHub to secure, high-performance hosting with regional CDN support—plus CI builds with staging, promotion, and rollback.

Try Your LLM Ideas without Burning Tokens

Got an LLM app idea? Release it without worrying about token costs.

Decent apps make this easy. Self-host or publish on our portal—either way, you can safely test your ideas with real users. If your app takes off, great—you won’t get hit with surprise LLM bills.

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Tokens are free. Scaling is automatic. Just launch and grow.

Decent Apps Have Limitations

Apps hosted on our portal must follow rules that ensure a trusted discovery destination. The main constraint: no service calls. (You can build a decent app with service calls—it just won’t be hosted with us.)

User data always stays on the device—by design. To make this easy, our project generator sets everything up in one command.
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Decent apps aren’t right for everything, but they’re a great fit for tools where users work with their own data—like note-taking, data analysis, or document editing.

What Do These Limits Give You?

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Privacy - Users can trust decent apps with their most private data. Say you build an app that tracks cities a user has visited. People are more likely to use it knowing their data stays on their device—never shared, never exploited.
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Speed - Local data is accessed with blazing speed—no slow server roundtrips. As a developer, you avoid full-stack complexity—no backend to manage.
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Free hosting - No hosting costs for databases, services, or LLMs. Scaling is automatic—every user brings their own resources.

Join the Decent Launch Program

We’re looking for developers to join our launch program. This program aims to launch your app onto our portal within 90 days. You can also release your app anywhere else, including your own website. You will own all your ideas, source code, and other IP. Any mentorship or promotion we provide costs nothing to you, and there is no lock-in.

We are now looking for a limited number of developers to join our first-ever Decent Launch Program beginning on April 13h, 2025.

Is this program right for you? Click below for more info.

Decent Launch Program details

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