Arclyne
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Arclyne, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Arclyne's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Personal license | $49, paid once | Unlimited workspaces and sources · Personal use · Two machines · Lifetime updates on the 1.x series · $49 once, not per year |
The facts
Each one read from Arclyne's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Academic pricing
- The site offers 30% academic pricing to people who email from a .edu address for a discount code.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Citations
- Chats are scoped to a workspace, with citations linking claims to a page, paragraph, or video timestamp; Arclyne says it flags unsupported answers.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Download
- The site offers a Windows v0.9 download listed as 84 MB; its macOS page section invites visitors to sign up for a release notification.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Hardware
- The FAQ says lightweight models run on 8 GB RAM, 16 GB supports mid-size models, and 32 GB or a dedicated GPU opens access to larger models.checked 9 Oct 2026
- License and refunds
- The personal license covers up to two machines, and the site offers a 30-day no-questions-asked refund by emailing [email protected].checked 9 Oct 2026
- Limits
- The FAQ says Arclyne does not support GPT-4 or Claude and describes its local models as less suited to frontier-grade reasoning on hundred-page documents.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Local storage
- The vector index is stored locally in an open file format, and the site says Windows app data remains in %APPDATA%\Arclyne after uninstall until the user deletes it.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Models
- Arclyne runs local models through a Llama.cpp sidecar on the user's GPU or CPU and matches a model to the device during onboarding.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Offline use
- Arclyne says it works with Wi-Fi switched off.checked 9 Oct 2026
- PDF handling
- PDF text is extracted locally, and scanned PDFs are detected and flagged automatically.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The site says sources are not uploaded to the cloud, there is no backend account, and the only network call is for update checks, which can be turned off.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Product
- Arclyne is a local AI research assistant for working with papers, lectures, and a Zotero library; it says answers are cited and data stays on the machine.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Source types
- It supports PDFs, arXiv papers, YouTube videos and playlists, web pages, and Zotero libraries.checked 9 Oct 2026
- YouTube handling
- YouTube audio is transcribed locally and indexed by timestamp; playlist videos are processed sequentially in the background.checked 9 Oct 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Indiachecked 28 Sep 2026
- Team licensing
- Team licenses are available on request by emailing [email protected].checked 9 Oct 2026
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