Receive Coaching is a desktop coaching app powered by an AI model running entirely on your own computer. Career, grief, ADHD, keto, spiritual life — every conversation stays on your machine, because it never had anywhere else to go.
Free. No account. No telemetry. ~100 MB portable .exe, nothing to install.
Practical (career, business, decisions), wellbeing (sleep, keto, mindfulness), psychological frameworks (CBT, REBT, NLP), life transitions (grief, divorce, midlife), and spiritual paths. Each with its own approach — and they refer to each other when your need fits elsewhere.
Your coaches remember: goals, commitments, recurring patterns, emotional trends. A mood strip shows your last 30 sessions at a glance, and a one-click Insights report finds the themes.
Drop .txt, .md, or .pdf files onto any coach — your journal, a book's notes, your business plan — and it coaches from that material, with sources cited.
Streaming replies, stop mid-generation, regenerate, edit your last message, per-coach chat history with archives, markdown export, voice read-aloud.
Crisis signals route to human helplines — even when the model is offline. Clinical-adjacent coaches know their scope and say so.
A coach is a folder with a JSON file. Add your own coach in five minutes. Swap models per coach. CLI included for terminal people.
Grab it from ollama.com — the free, open-source local model runner.
ollama pull llama3.1 and ollama pull nomic-embed-text. About 5 GB total.
Double-click ReceiveCoaching-portable.exe. No install, no admin rights, no Python required.
Requirements: Windows 10/11, 64-bit. 8 GB RAM minimum (16 GB recommended for the 8B model). Any GPU helps but isn't required. Advanced users can point it at any OpenAI-compatible server instead of Ollama.
Actually. The app's only network traffic is to 127.0.0.1 — the model server on your own machine. There is no account system, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no update phone-home. You can verify this with any network monitor, and the source is readable.
No. It's coaching — structured questions, reframing, accountability. Coaches in clinical-adjacent areas (CBT, anxiety, addiction recovery, grief) explicitly state their limits and point you toward professional help when your need is beyond coaching. Crisis signals surface real helplines immediately.
Good coaching is mostly good questions, and 8B-class models ask good questions reliably — especially grounded in your own memory and source material. You can point any coach at a bigger model if your hardware allows.
Nothing. No subscription, no tiers. The cloud coaching apps charge $10–20/month partly because every message costs them server money. Yours run on electricity you already pay for.
Deep, curated source libraries for the business, decision, career, leadership, money, and goal coaches: 12 framework-dense playbooks (validation, pricing, negotiation, delegation, hard calls, irregular income, follow-through) your coaches quote from directly. Drop the folders in, hit re-index, done.
The hard-conversation library: fair fighting, real apologies, boundaries that hold, saying no, de-escalation, and co-parenting with a hostile ex — 12 script-dense playbooks for the relationships, boundaries, forgiveness, and de-escalation coaches. Rehearse the conversation that scares you, entirely on your own machine.
The app is free forever. Packs are optional expert content — the product is the curation, not a paywall.