Triplo AI Review: Desktop AI Assistant with Local LLMs

What Is Triplo AI?

Triplo AI is a desktop AI assistant that runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, and even Chromebook. At first glance, it might look like just another ChatGPT wrapper — invoke it with a keyboard shortcut, pick a model, and start chatting. But that surface-level comparison sells it short.

What sets Triplo apart is its deep integration with your operating system. Because it's a native desktop app rather than a Chrome extension, it can interact with anything on your screen. Select text in Apple Notes, a PDF, or any application, and Triplo can immediately process it. It supports multiple AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenRouter, and you can even plug in your own API keys to access the latest models.

The tool is currently available as a lifetime deal on AppSumo starting at $59, which makes it one of the more affordable ways to get a permanent, full-featured AI assistant on your desktop.

Installation and Getting Started

Getting Triplo set up is straightforward. After grabbing the deal, head to the Triplo website and download the app for your platform — the downloads section is at the bottom of the page. The team also sends an email with all the relevant links.

Once installed, you activate Triplo with a hotkey. The default on Mac is Option + Space, but you can customize this under the gear icon in settings. This is also where you'll add your API keys for OpenAI, OpenRouter, and Anthropic. The built-in models are included with your AppSumo tier's token allotment (ranging from 2 million to 60 million tokens per month), but adding your own keys means you'll never be locked out even if you burn through your monthly credits.

One important note on device limits: Tier 1 at $59 only supports a single device. If you want to run Triplo on both your laptop and phone, you'll need at least Tier 2. The highest tier supports up to 30 devices.

Smart Prompts and Screen-Aware Context

The real power of Triplo starts with its smart prompts system. Because the app has access to everything on your screen, you can select text anywhere — a meeting transcript in Notes, a paragraph in a document, an email — then invoke Triplo and reference that selection directly in your prompt using the `//selection` command.

For example, take a long meeting transcript, select the entire thing, pull up Triplo, and type `//selection give me a to-do list from this meeting.` Triplo reads the full selection and generates a structured task list complete with responsibilities, milestones, and risk notes. The output is automatically copied to your clipboard, ready to paste wherever you need it.

Triplo also handles URL scraping natively. Paste a YouTube link (as long as the video has captions), a blog post, or any webpage, and Triplo will extract the content so you can ask follow-up questions about it. There are built-in scrape variants for raw text, HTML, and Markdown output. Every response is saved in Triplo's built-in chat history, and if you use a clipboard manager, the auto-copy feature means nothing gets lost.

Creating Custom Prompts

Triplo ships with hundreds of built-in smart prompts, but creating your own is where it gets interesting. There are three types: normal prompts, inline prompts, and context prompts.

Normal prompts are used at the start of a query. You give them a command name, a title, a description (for your own reference when searching), and the actual prompt text that gets sent to the AI. For instance, you could create a "birthday" prompt that generates warm birthday messages — just type the command, add a name, and get instant output.

Inline prompts can be chained together within a single query. Create a "professional" inline prompt that instructs the AI to write in a professional tone, then combine it with your birthday prompt: type the birthday command, add the professional modifier, and you get a formally written birthday message. This composability is one of Triplo's strongest design decisions — you build small, reusable prompt blocks and mix them on the fly.

Custom instructions take this a step further by setting persistent context. You can define who you are, how you want responses formatted (JSON only, plain text, bullet points), and toggle between different instruction sets with a single click. A green badge in the interface always shows you which custom instruction is active.

Hotkeys and Translation Workflows

Every smart prompt in Triplo — both built-in and custom — can be assigned a global hotkey. This turns Triplo into a lightning-fast productivity tool. Select text anywhere on your screen, press a key combination, and the prompt fires without ever opening the Triplo window.

The translation use case is a perfect example. Assign Control+T to "Translate to Turkish," then just highlight any sentence in a document and press the shortcut. Triplo processes it in the background (you'll see a status dot change from green to orange while it's working) and copies the translation to your clipboard. No windows, no context switching, no friction.

You can set up hotkeys for virtually any repetitive task: responding to common client questions, reformatting text, summarizing selected content, or extracting key details from emails. If you find yourself typing the same kind of prompt more than a couple of times a week, a hotkey will save you meaningful time.

Minds: Custom Knowledge Bases

Triplo's "Minds" feature is essentially a personal knowledge base you can chat with. Think of it as lightweight RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) built right into the app. You create a Mind, give it a name, and feed it documents — either by uploading local files or providing URLs. Each Mind supports up to 200,000 tokens of source material.

The practical applications are compelling. Load up your client contracts and quickly ask questions about specific terms. Add your company's SOPs and get instant answers about internal processes. Drop in video transcripts (from a tool like MacWhisper) and query across multiple videos at once.

Once a Mind is created, you select it from the interface before running a prompt. A blue badge indicates which Mind is active. The training process takes up to three minutes for larger datasets, though smaller ones process in seconds. Minds work with both cloud-based and local models, meaning you can query sensitive company documents without any data leaving your machine.

Running Local LLMs with Ollama

For users who need complete data privacy, Triplo supports local LLM integration through Ollama. This means you can run AI models entirely on your machine — no data goes to the cloud, and no API credits are consumed.

Setup is surprisingly simple. Download Ollama from ollama.com, install it, and pull a model (like Google's Gemma 3 at 1 billion parameters, which is under a gigabyte). Then in Triplo's settings, navigate to Local LLM Settings and enter `localhost:11434` as the provider URL. Your locally downloaded models will immediately appear in Triplo's model selector.

Local models work with all of Triplo's features, including Minds. So you can load sensitive company documents into a knowledge base and query them with a local model for a fully offline, private AI workflow. The trade-off is that local models are generally less capable than cloud-based ones, and the size of model you can run depends on your hardware specs. But for privacy-sensitive use cases, it's an excellent option.

Note that local LLM support requires Tier 3 or higher on the AppSumo deal. However, bring-your-own-API-key is available on all tiers, which is a nice touch compared to tools that gate that behind premium plans.

Automations and Webhook Integration

Triplo's automation engine bridges the gap between AI-generated content and your external tools. Using webhooks, you can take Triplo's output and send it directly to your CRM, cold email platform, Google Sheets, or any service that accepts webhook data.

The setup involves two pieces: a smart prompt and an automation. The smart prompt defines what data to extract and instructs the AI to output it as JSON with specific parameters. For example, an "email extractor" prompt tells Triplo to visit a URL, find the best contact email, write a two-sentence company summary, and output both as JSON with `email` and `summary` fields.

The automation then maps those JSON parameters to a webhook. You give it a name, define the parameters in plain English (no coding required), and paste in your webhook URL. Triplo supports tools like n8n, Make, and Zapier — anything that can receive a POST request. There's even a "suggested payload" button that auto-generates the correct format.

In practice, you type your extraction prompt, provide a URL like basecamp.com, and add "send to webhook." Triplo scrapes the site, extracts the data, formats it as JSON, and (with your confirmation) fires it off to your automation platform. The confirmation step can be disabled once you trust your setup, letting everything run hands-free.

Pricing Tiers and What You Get

Triplo's AppSumo lifetime deal is structured across five tiers, and the feature differences between them matter. Tier 1 at $59 gives you a single device, 2 million monthly AI credits, and 50 custom prompts — but no automations, no Minds (knowledge bases), and no local model support. It's fine for basic AI chat with hotkey access.

The real value unlocks at Tier 3, where you get automations, Minds (AI training), and local LLM support. From there, the higher tiers scale up device counts (up to 30), token allotments (up to 60 million monthly), and prompt/Mind limits (up to 1,500 smart prompts and 300 Minds). Automations are capped at 10 per device across all tiers.

If you're considering Tier 4 or 5, grabbing AppSumo Plus first will save you 10% on the purchase. At $99/year for Plus membership, the math works out favorably on the higher tiers, and you'll likely recoup the cost on future AppSumo purchases within the year.

Final Verdict: 9.3 out of 10

Triplo AI earns a 9.3 out of 10 — one of the highest scores in recent memory on this channel. That score reflects the sheer breadth of what this tool does: system-wide AI access, composable smart prompts with hotkeys, URL scraping, custom knowledge bases, local LLM support for complete privacy, and webhook automations that connect your AI output to the rest of your tech stack.

What makes Triplo stand out isn't any single feature — it's how all these features work together on your desktop, outside the browser. The ability to select text in any application, process it with a custom prompt chain, and automatically send the results to your CRM via webhook is genuinely powerful. Add local model support for privacy-sensitive work, and you've got a tool that adapts to almost any workflow.

The main limitation is the tier structure. If you want the full experience with automations, Minds, and local models, you're looking at Tier 3 or above. But even the base tier offers solid value as a persistent, hotkey-driven AI assistant that lives on your desktop.

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