Questions people ask

Short answers to what people ask before installing.

Do I need to be technical?

No. Install the app, click the icon, and change one setting in whichever AI app you already use. Everything on this site that shows a terminal has a way to do the same thing from the app or the dashboard.

Does anz33 come with an AI?

No, and that is the point. It routes to the engines you already have — Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX — and to a cloud provider if you add one. If you have no engine yet, install Ollama first.

Does anything I type get sent anywhere?

Not by default. Out of the box there are no cloud engines and cloud is not allowed, so every request is answered on your machine. If you add a cloud engine and allow it, you can still keep specific things local with rules, and the airlock strips identifiers from whatever does go out.

anz33 itself collects nothing. No telemetry, no account, no analytics on the dashboard. The only connection it makes on its own is a subscription check that sends a licence key.

Does it work offline?

Yes — that is the normal case for local models. Subscription checks keep working offline for fourteen days at a time, so a week without internet changes nothing.

What does it cost?

Fourteen days free, then $20 a month — or $200 a year, which is two months free. Cancellable at any time. The subscription covers the router. Local models are free to run; if you use a cloud engine you pay that provider directly with your own key — anz33 never sits between you and their bill.

Subscribe, and the licence key arrives by email. Paste it into the app — click the anz33 icon in your menu bar or system tray and choose Enter Licence Key… — or run anz33 activate <key> if you would rather. The router restarts immediately with everything as you left it.

What happens if I stop paying?

The router stops serving requests. What does not happen: your data is not held hostage. Memories, rules, statistics and the audit log are plain files in ~/.anz33, readable without anz33 installed, and anz33 export-memory writes everything out in markdown.

Is it faster than using an engine directly?

For a single request to a single engine, anz33 adds a millisecond or two of routing — imperceptible next to a model that takes seconds to answer. It gets faster when you have more than one engine, because it picks the quickest one for your machine instead of you guessing.

Yes. See Sharing with your household — profiles per person, kid-safe mode, and keys so only your devices can use it.

Does it run on a Raspberry Pi or an ARM server?

Yes. There are arm64 builds for Linux, and the AppImage, .deb and .rpm all come in arm64. Whether a model runs usefully is a question for the engine and the hardware, not for anz33.

What about Alpine, or other musl systems?

Use the .pyz or install from PyPI. The prebuilt binaries are built against glibc and will not start on musl — which is why there is deliberately no .apk package.

Is there a team plan?

anz33 Team is $16 per seat each month, minimum three seats — one invoice and a licence for each person. Start one at anz33.com/upgrade, or email hello@anz33.com for anything larger.

Can I use it in a company?

The audit log is designed for exactly that conversation: hash-chained, plain text, and verifiable with anz33 audit --verify. Rules can be written once and left in place. For licensing across a team, email hello@anz33.com.

Where is my data?

~/.anz33 — on Windows, C:\Users\<you>\.anz33. Config, rules, audit log, memories, skills and statistics, all in ordinary files. Files and folders lists each one.

How do I remove it completely?

anz33 uninstall      # stop the login service
rm -rf ~/.anz33      # your data — this is the only copy

Then delete the app from Applications, uninstall from Add or Remove Programs, or remove the package with your package manager. On macOS, brew uninstall --zap --cask anz33 does the lot.

Is it open source?

No — anz33 is a paid product and the source is private. Build output is published in the open at AzmxAI/anz33-releases with checksums for every file, so you can verify that what you downloaded is what was built.