Set up Karja

Karja works out of the box, but local AI and web search are bring-your-own — you connect them to backends that run on your own machine. Here's how, step by step.

Local AI

Run an AI model on your own machine with Ollama or oMLX, then point Karja at it. Powers the AI Chat and every app that uses AI — fully offline, nothing sent to the cloud.

Web search

Give the Web Search and Videos apps a backend: a free Brave Search API key, or a SearXNG instance you host yourself for complete privacy.