FrameBuff is your own private cloud. One encrypted drive. Every machine. Everyone you trust. Nothing to rent and nothing to sign up for.
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This site also runs on Reticulum, as a Nomad Network page node, so it can keep working over the mesh when the internet is down. Both copies show the same "last updated" date.
FrameBuff joins the storage of your machines into one drive, encrypted on disk with keys that never leave home. No monthly plan and no cap except the disks you already own.
Desktop, laptop, mini PC and phone pair once and then find each other at home or across the internet. Your GPU, screens and folders become one shared pool.
Bring family in, let guests borrow what they need, and lend your graphics card while you're away. Nobody gets in until you say yes.
One page shows every machine you own, what it is doing and who is using it. Below is a demo fleet with four machines.
FrameBuff starts small and grows with you. Use one part, or all of them.
One drive that every machine shares, encrypted on your own disks. Sync a folder everywhere and back it up, encrypted, to your own cloud account. A 12-word recovery phrase brings the drive back on a new machine.
files · sync · backupPair your computers once and reach them from home, from work or from your phone. Start terminals on any machine from one list, and move your mouse and keyboard from one screen to the next.
fleet · terminals · input sharingFamily members render on your card while you're away. When you sit down again, FrameBuff hands it back in under a second, and you can see who used how much.
sharing · meteredRun language models on your own hardware. AI agents work inside limits you set, and anything that posts, spends or deletes waits for your yes.
private AIQueue videos and images in the evening. Your own GPU renders them overnight with ComfyUI and LTX-Video, and nothing leaves the house.
overnight jobsInvite family into a shared space and give guests only what they need. Every request waits for you, and one that times out counts as a no.
people · consentPut a playlist, a film or a game on the living-room TV from whatever device is in your hand.
screens · playlistsMessages between your machines keep their history, so a message read on one is read on all. Notes, an inbox and a calendar sit right beside them.
everydayWrite a module in Go, or wrap any tool from GitHub or Hugging Face with a single framebuff.json file. It appears in the menu, the command chat and the API.
Every FrameBuff tool is also an MCP tool, so the AI client you already use can work with your files, jobs and machines.
mcpShare your apps and install other people's. Each one runs sealed off first and lists exactly what it wants to touch.
coming laterEverything lives on machines you own, encrypted with keys that stay there.
AES-256-GCM encryption on diskCopy it, run it, open your browser. That's the install.
Agents are useful when they can act. They act on your terms.
These are excellent tools, and FrameBuff runs happily beside any of them. Here is where it overlaps, and what it adds.
| Tool | What it's great at | Where FrameBuff overlaps | What FrameBuff adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nextcloud | Polished file sharing, office documents and a large app store | Shared drive, sync, notes, calendar | Spreads across all your machines rather than one server, encrypted at rest from the start |
| Syncthing | Rock-solid peer-to-peer folder sync | Keeping a folder the same everywhere | An encrypted drive, shared GPUs, family and apps on top of sync |
| Tailscale | Effortless private networking between devices | Reaching your machines from anywhere | Connects your machines without signing up anywhere, and does something with them once they're connected |
| Home Assistant | Smart-home automation with thousands of integrations | Schedules, dashboards, the living-room screen | Focuses on your computers and data, and sits well beside it |
| Google Drive / iCloud | Zero setup, works on every device | Files and photos across your devices | The storage is yours: no monthly fee, and nobody else holds the keys |
FrameBuff is free and will be open source. The other tools' features change often; their own sites are the source of truth.
“I wanted my own AI server with full control of my data = NO data center. Everything encrypted, everything in my own hands.”
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