User Guide
Getting started with Zaelar.
This is the guide for using Zaelar day to day — no code, no setup internals. Looking for the architecture and the public repo instead? That's the Technology section.
Pick how you run it
Self-host
Clone the engine, bring your own AI keys, run it on your own machine. Free for your own use, forever.
Read the setup docs →Zaelar Cloud
No install — sign up, and your agent runs on its own cloud machine, on your computer and your phone. During the launch a limited number of free licenses come with Energy included.
Sign up free →Your first conversation
The only thing it asks upfront is which language to use — pick a quick option or just say it, and that's done for good. After that there's no form: tap the orb (self-hosting? open localhost:43917), say hello, and just talk — introduce yourself, mention what you're working on, ask it to do something small. It only acts on speech that's actually meant for it, so it won't act on background chatter in the room.
If you'd rather type, the chat wall next to the orb takes plain text at any time — same agent, same memory, same conversation either way.
On Zaelar Cloud the same agent is on your phone too: open my.zaelar.com/m and add it to your home screen. The voice is in one place at a time — pick it up on the phone and the computer hands it over, and keeps the chat.
Three things worth knowing before you dive in
Talk first, don't type
Tap the orb and just speak, the way you'd talk to a person — “find me a table for Friday”, not a search query. Type in the chat wall instead whenever that's easier.
It remembers on its own (beta)
You don't fill out a profile. Preferences, names, running errands — it picks them up from talking to you and recalls them later. Memory is in beta: it's ready to use, and refined with every release.
It shows its work
Anything visual — a set of options, a video, your agenda — opens as a small app on the canvas next to the conversation, so you can see and touch what it's doing.
Where to go next
Head to What It Can Do for the full tour of abilities, The Canvas & Apps to understand the on-screen apps it builds, or straight to Examples & Walkthroughs for things to try right now.