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# Dyad

Dyad is a local, open-source AI app builder. It's fast, private, and fully under your control — like Lovable, v0, or Bolt, but running right on your machine.

[![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f6c83dfc-6ffd-4d32-93dd-4b9c46d17790)](https://dyad.sh/)

More info at: [https://dyad.sh/](https://dyad.sh/)

## 🚀 Features

- ⚡️ **Local**: Fast, private and no lock-in.
- 🛠 **Bring your own keys**: Use your own AI API keys — no vendor lock-in.
- 🖥️ **Cross-platform**: Easy to run on Mac or Windows.

## 📦 Download

No sign-up required. Just download and go.

### [👉 Download for your platform](https://www.dyad.sh/#download)

## 🤝 Community

Join our growing community of AI app builders on **Reddit**: [r/dyadbuilders](https://www.reddit.com/r/dyadbuilders/) - share your projects and get help from the community!

## 🛠️ Contributing

**Dyad** is open-source (see License info below).

If you're interested in contributing to dyad, please read our [contributing](https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/blob/HEAD/CONTRIBUTING.md) doc.

## License

- All the code in this repo outside of `src/pro` is open-source and licensed under Apache 2.0 - see [LICENSE](https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/tree/HEAD/LICENSE).
- All the code in this repo within `src/pro` is fair-source and licensed under [Functional Source License 1.1 Apache 2.0](https://fsl.software/) - see [LICENSE](https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/tree/HEAD/src/pro/LICENSE).