Kernl
Free forever. Pay for the extras.
The whole kernel and every core module are free and open under Apache-2.0 — forever. The only thing we sell is the extra extensions: buy the ones you want once, or get All-Access for every extension plus updates and new releases. Want it done for you? Our team installs, tunes and supports it.
Free Core
Self-hosted. Apache-2.0. Forever.
No account. No card. No limits.
- 71 bundled modules — tasks, CRM, notes, finance, health, home, leisure
- All channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Mattermost)
- All integrations (Gmail, GitHub, Google Sync, RSS)
- Agents, 3D offices, reminders & the full dashboard
- Graph queries + local & cloud LLMs (LM Studio, Ollama, Claude, OpenAI)
- Federation + mesh + plugins
- Community support (GitHub Issues)
All-Access
Every paid extension. Always updated.
Cancel anytime. Extensions you bought à la carte stay yours.
- Every paid add-on unlocked — today's and tomorrow's:
- 🧠 MoneyIQ — spending analytics, subscription detection, anomalies, forecast
- 🌐 Web Intel Pro + 🧲 Torrents — research automation, media ingestion
- 🛠️ DevOps Office — a 5-agent team that runs your repos and dev stacks
- 🔄 Automatic updates + every new extension & office at no extra cost
- Offline license · Email support
Support & Install
We set it up. We keep it running.
Optional $49/mo support retainer.
- 🛠️ Turn-key install — on your server or one we manage
- 🔧 Configured for your channels, LLM keys and data
- 🧭 1:1 onboarding call — working end to end before we leave
- 🩺 Optional monthly retainer — updates, monitoring, hands-on help
- 🏢 Custom offices & extensions built on request
Prefer to buy just one?
Every extension is also a one-time purchase — own it forever, updates included. Or unlock the whole shelf with All-Access.
Premium finance analytics on your own data: spending breakdown, automatic subscription detection, anomalies and a month-end forecast.
It reads the transactions you already keep in Kernl and tells you where the money actually goes. No bank login, no third-party service: the numbers never leave your machine.
What you get
- Your spending broken down by category and by merchant, month by month.
- Subscriptions found on their own, with what each one costs you per month and per year.
- Odd charges flagged against what is normal for you.
- A month-end forecast built from the rate you are spending at right now.
Works on the transactions in the free Finance module — there is nothing to connect.
Wake up refreshed — bedtime and wake-time coach built on 90-minute sleep cycles.
Tell it at what time you have to get up and it tells you when to go to bed. It counts cycles, not hours: it works in full 90-minute sleep cycles so the alarm catches you between two of them instead of in the middle of one.
What you get
- The bedtimes that fit a wake-up time — and the wake-up times that fit a bedtime.
- A quick read on how last night went.
- Plain answers you can ask for in chat: “I have to be up at 6:30”.
No watch, no band, no account: it only needs the time you give it.
Scheduled tasks, programmatic providers and multi-source research.
Research the web on a schedule instead of by hand. You write the question once and Kernl keeps answering it, with the results kept in your own history.
What you get
- Search and read pages through several providers, with automatic routing when one of them fails or runs out.
- Saved tasks that run on their own schedule and keep every result.
- Multi-source research: one question, several sources, one answer with its links.
- Add your own providers and API keys, or drive a real browser session for pages that need one.
The free core already searches the web — this adds the scheduling, the providers and the history.
Magnet/torrent ingestion and streaming via the mtwRequest backend.
Search, add and follow torrents from inside Kernl, with a Rust backend doing the transfer instead of a separate app you have to keep open.
What you get
- Search across trackers, or add straight from a magnet link.
- Live status of everything running: progress, speed and peers.
- Favourites kept for later, and one click to remove what finished.
- Ask for it in chat — your agents can search and queue on your behalf.
Uses the mtwRequest backend that ships with the extension.
A pre-configured 5-agent team that manages all your repos and virtual dev stacks.
A five-agent team that looks after every repository and dev stack you have registered. You ask in plain language; they do the work and tell you what happened.
What you get
- The DevOps Lead takes the request and hands it to the right specialist.
- Repo Reader explores read-only, Repo Editor applies the edits — and never commits or pushes.
- Build Runner runs your builds, tests, linters and scripts on the host.
- Stack Operator brings the containerised dev stacks up and down, with presets and a guarded deploy.
- One status board across every repo, and the same command run on all of them at once.
Works over the repos you register in the free core — nothing is committed or pushed without you.
Build daily habits and watch your streaks grow — streaks, heatmap and a weekly report, all computed locally.
Add the habits you want to keep, check in once a day, and watch the streak grow. Everything is counted on your own machine.
What you get
- Current streak and longest streak for each habit.
- A heatmap of your check-ins, so a bad week is obvious at a glance.
- A weekly report of what you actually completed.
- Shows up in your morning and evening digest, so you do not have to go looking for it.
Nothing leaves the machine and there is no account to create.
A forum that belongs to no platform: boards, signed posts and replies between Kernls, with an optional Nostr bridge.
Talk with other Kernls in boards that live on your own machine. Every post is signed with your key, so nobody can put words in your mouth or take your account away.
What you get
- Boards and sub-boards, like linux/arch/aur, that build the same tree on every Kernl.
- Signed posts, replies and reactions; you follow who you want and mute who you want.
- Your agents can draft posts; nothing goes out until you approve it in the outbox.
- An optional Nostr bridge to reach people outside Kernl.
The Nostr bridge is off until you turn it on in Settings.
A television station on your own machine: seven channels of famous public-domain shows and films from archive.org, each on a real 24-hour schedule. You don't pick a video — you turn on the set, and whatever is airing is already in progress.
A television station running on your own machine. You do not pick a video: you turn the set on and whatever is airing is already halfway through.
What you get
- Channels of famous public-domain shows and films pulled from archive.org — Dragnet, Bonanza, Adventures of Superman, Popeye, classic noir, sci-fi, silent cinema and full live concerts.
- A real 24-hour schedule per channel, with a printed guide of what is on next.
- Subtitles, with translation into your language.
- Your own channels, built from any archive.org search — or composed from a single sentence.
It streams from archive.org, so nothing is stored on your disk unless you ask for it.
Film and audio from institutional archives — the Library of Congress, Europeana and more — searchable side by side, with provenance and rights kept on every record.
Film and audio from the institutions that hold the originals: the Library of Congress and the roughly 3,000 European museums, libraries and film archives behind Europeana.
What you get
- Both sources searched side by side, in one list.
- Every result names the institution that holds it and its rights statement — so what you find is citable, not just findable.
- It sits next to the archive.org catalogue instead of mixing into it: these sources publish provenance, not download counts.
Pairs with Kernl TV if you want the same material on a schedule.
Years of iPhone and Apple Watch history — weight, workouts, sleep, heart rate, steps — imported from a Health export and shown on the wellness panel. Every sample carries an identity, so re-importing a newer export adds only what is new.
Bring years of iPhone and Apple Watch history into Kernl from a single Health export — weight, workouts, sleep, heart rate and steps — and read it all in the Wellness panel.
What you get
- One export file, imported in place: no account, no cloud, no app running in the background.
- Each sample keeps its own identity, so importing a newer export adds only what is missing instead of duplicating years of data.
- It lands in the same tables the free Wellness panel already reads, next to whatever you log by hand.
You export from the iPhone Health app (Profile → Export All Health Data) and hand Kernl the zip.
Reach your Kernl from anywhere through a Cloudflare tunnel that carries only the routes you publish — everything else answers 404 without your kernel ever seeing it. Plus DNS, cache, Workers, KV, R2 and D1 tools.
Reach your Kernl from anywhere through a Cloudflare tunnel that carries only the routes you publish. Everything else answers 404 without your kernel ever seeing the request.
What you get
- Start and stop the tunnel from the dashboard; the tunnel program downloads itself the first time you use it.
- Only the routes an extension publishes are exposed — no open ports on your router, nothing else reachable.
- DNS records, cache purge, Workers, KV, R2 and D1 handled from the same place.
Needs a Cloudflare account and an API token; the free plan is enough.
Publish to TikTok and keep the performance history TikTok does not. It snapshots your followers and every video daily, building the record the API never returns and the app drops after 60 days — so you can finally see which posts are still climbing and which died on day three.
Publish to TikTok and keep the performance history TikTok throws away. The app forgets your numbers after 60 days; this keeps them from day one.
What you get
- Posts and schedules your videos through the official Content Posting API, with validation before the upload leaves.
- Takes a daily snapshot of your followers and of every video, building the time series the API never returns.
- Shows which posts are still climbing weeks later and which ones died on day three.
- A four-agent studio: the Lead routes, the Publisher ships, the Analyst measures and the Strategist decides what to make next.
Creator-account scope: it publishes and measures. No comments, DMs, follower lists, follows, likes or deletions — TikTok grants no creator scope for those.
A 6-agent team that runs your job search: it scans company job boards for openings, checks each posting is still live, scores it against your CV, flags the ones unlikely to be real, and keeps your follow-ups on time. It prepares everything — you decide what to send.
A six-agent team that runs your job search. It prepares everything and sends nothing: you always press send.
What you get
- Scout scans company job boards for openings and checks each one is still live — and costs nothing to run.
- Analyst scores every posting against your CV with an A–G report, and flags the ones unlikely to be real jobs.
- Writer tailors the CV per posting and drafts the cover letter and the message to the recruiter.
- Recruiter Desk keeps the pipeline honest: statuses, duplicates, follow-ups on time and interview prep.
- Pitch writes the proposals for freelance gigs and inbound client work, priced against the risk.
It never submits an application on your behalf — everything waits for your go.
Multi-entity double-entry books, invoicing with the right tax and your filing calendar — jurisdiction packs for Argentina, the US and the Netherlands, and any other country you define. Everything you discuss is kept in an append-only dossier.
A real accounting practice inside your kernel: double-entry books for as many entities as you have, invoices with the right tax on them, and the calendar of what you owe and when.
What you get
- The Chief Accountant knows every entity and routes each request to the right specialist.
- Bookkeeper keeps the ledger and turns what you say into a balanced draft entry.
- Invoicing Clerk issues the invoices, tracks who owes what and settles the payments.
- Tax Advisor owns the rates, regimes and deadlines; Controller reads the trial balance, the P&L and the balance sheet — plus the anomalies nobody asked about.
- Jurisdiction packs for Argentina, the United States and the Netherlands, and any other country you define yourself.
Everything discussed in the office is kept in an append-only dossier, linked to the entries it produced.
Complete stock control for any industry — locations, lots and expiry, serials, FIFO or average cost, orders, cycle counts and reorder points — run by a warehouse team in its own 3D building.
Stock control that fits any business, with a team of agents that keeps it straight.
What you get
- Locations, lots with expiry dates and serial numbers, valued at FIFO or average cost.
- Purchase and sales orders, cycle counts and reorder points that tell you what to buy before you run out.
- A warehouse team of agents works the counts, the reorders and the anomalies — in its own building in the 3D office.
Built for any industry: you define the items, the units and the locations.
A five-agent team that sells the project you assign it: welcomes the waitlist and new signups, prospects businesses on Google Maps and the web, follows up every deal and spots accounts ready to upgrade. Every message is a draft you approve.
A sales team for each of your projects. It finds, follows up and proposes — you approve every message.
What you get
- Prospector finds businesses that fit on Google Maps and the web, qualifies them and loads the good ones into the pipeline.
- Inbound welcomes everyone who joins the waitlist or signs up, with a first message in your project's voice.
- Closer keeps every deal moving: follow-ups that add something new, replies read and answered, proposals at your prices.
- Activation spots free accounts that already use the product a lot and proposes the upgrade.
Nothing leaves without your approval. People who ask not to be contacted are never written to again, and nobody gets a fourth follow-up.
A five-agent team that markets the project you assign it: plans the week, writes LinkedIn posts, articles and the newsletter in your voice, watches competitors and reports what worked. Posts and newsletters are drafts you approve.
A marketing team for each of your projects, working from a weekly calendar you can see and move.
What you get
- The lead plans each week around your content pillars, the ideas the team found and what worked last time.
- Writer drafts the LinkedIn posts; Content writes the articles and the newsletter.
- Intelligence follows your competitors and sources and turns what it finds into ideas.
- Analyst writes a weekly report with the numbers each channel actually gives.
Posts and newsletters wait for your approval; articles are ready-to-publish files. Nothing is invented: no fake customers, quotes or numbers.
GDS-backed analytics over your own knowledge graph: community detection, PageRank, node embeddings, semantic similarity and enrichment. Browsing and editing the graph stays free — this unlocks the tools that compute over it. Needs Neo4j with the Graph Data Science plugin (included in the full Docker stack).
Real graph analytics over your own knowledge graph — the maths on top of the graph Kernl already builds from your data.
What you get
- Community detection and PageRank: which clusters exist and who sits at the centre.
- Node embeddings and semantic similarity: what resembles what, even with nothing in common on the surface.
- Enrichment and written reports over your own nodes.
- The Network page in the dashboard. Browsing and editing the graph stays free — this unlocks the tools that compute over it.
Needs Neo4j with the Graph Data Science plugin: it ships in the full docker-compose stack, not in the lightweight quickstart one.
Frequently asked
Are the paid extensions open source?
The whole core (71 modules) is Apache-2.0, fully open — audit it, fork it, run it forever. The extra extensions are commercial: they ship as compiled JS plus a signed manifest inside a .kernl bundle, verified offline by the kernel.
One-time purchase or All-Access — what's the difference?
A one-time purchase means you own that extension forever, updates included. All-Access is a subscription that unlocks every paid extension — plus every new one we release — while you're subscribed. Buy à la carte for one or two; subscribe for the whole shelf.
Does the license phone home?
No. The license is a JWT signed offline. The kernel verifies its signature against an embedded public key — no network call needed. You can run an air-gapped install.
What happens if I cancel All-Access?
Any extension you bought à la carte stays yours forever. All-Access-only extensions return a friendly "subscription required" message and lock, while the free core keeps working exactly as before.
What's in the install + support service?
We install Kernl on your server (or one we manage), wire up your channels, LLM keys and data, and run a 1:1 onboarding call so it works end to end. An optional monthly retainer covers updates, monitoring and hands-on help. Email contact@lifekernl.com for a quote.
How do updates work?
Bought à la carte: you get updates to that extension. On All-Access: every extension updates automatically, and new releases land in your library at no extra cost.
Refunds, VAT and sales tax?
14-day refund, no questions asked. VAT and sales tax are handled automatically by Stripe Tax — the price you see is what you pay; local tax is itemised on the invoice.
What if I'm an OSS maintainer?
Email contact@lifekernl.com — we give free All-Access to maintainers of OSS projects with 1k+ stars or a significant community.