How it works

From one request to an app you keep using.

The main way is to describe the app in Bohm, and there are two more ways in. Whichever you take, you end up with an app in your Library — with its own data, its own versions, and nothing that depends on a server.

Way 1

Describe the app in Bohm.

On the first screen — or with “Make an app” in a new tab — write the app you want in your own words.

  1. Say what you need.

    For example: “An app to note the books I lend out and when they are due back.”
  2. The AI makes it.

    The AI you connected writes the app — an AI server on your network, or an AI service with your key. Without one, Bohm writes the request for an AI chat site such as ChatGPT, and you paste its answer back.
  3. Try it, then keep it.

    It opens as a preview first — nothing is kept until you save it. Saved, it gets its own tab and its own place for data.
The first screen of Bohm, “What should we make?”, with a request for a receipt expense app typed in
The app Bohm made from that request open as a preview, and beside it what the app does, with Discard and Save the app
Before saving: the new app runs as a preview, and nothing is kept until you save it.

Way 2

Start from the web pages you already use.

When the information you need is spread across pages you check every week, ask once and keep the answer as an app.

  1. Open the pages.

    Open them in web tabs in Bohm — signed in as usual where a site needs it.
  2. Ask the chat.

    Ask it to compare or bring the tables together. It reads the open pages and lists the ones it read under the answer.
  3. Save as app.

    Under the answer, choose “Save as app”. Check the preview with today’s values and which site and columns it will read, then agree.
  4. Read again whenever you like.

    Open the pages, choose “Read again” in the app. The same rules read the same tables — no AI involved this time.
A saved-app preview with today’s values beside the sites and columns it will read, with Discard and Save the app
Before saving: the app drawn with today’s values, and exactly what it will read. (Pages: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.)

See it with three league tables

Way 3

Bring in a file you already have.

An HTML app made elsewhere runs here too. An app made without Bohm in mind may keep its data where it does not last — Bohm tells you when it opens one.

  1. Ask an AI chat for the app.

    Describe what you need in your own words. Paste a short text along with it, and the app it makes saves its data the way Bohm keeps safe.
  2. Drop the file into Bohm.

    Drag the HTML file into the Library. Its code is not changed. It opens in its own tab, with its own place for data.
  3. Use it.

    What you enter is saved to a folder on your PC as you go. Close the tab or restart the computer — it is there next time.
The Bohm Library with three apps made with AI, each card showing a picture of its screen

After that

Living with the app.

  1. Change it by pointing.

    Choose “Change…”, click the part you mean and say what should be different. A suggestion arrives; try it in place, then apply it or throw it away. Your data stays either way.
  2. Or drop in a new version.

    Asked the AI chat for an updated file? Drop it in and Bohm asks whether it is a new version of the same app. The data carries over.
  3. One step back, always.

    Every version is kept. “Previous version” brings back the code and the data as they were.
  4. Take it with you.

    Export an app with its data and versions, and import it on another PC.
The expense list of the receipt app pointed at, and beside it the request for a trip field and the suggested change

Under the hood

Why it keeps working.

Each app is kept apart. Every app gets its own address and its own storage on your PC. One app cannot read another app’s data.

Apps stay inside your PC. An app cannot connect to outside servers. Information from the web reaches an app only through a page you opened and a reading you agreed to.

AI goes through Bohm. When an app calls an AI service, Bohm answers with the AI you connected — your key, a model file on your PC, or an AI server on your network. The key never reaches the app.

Nothing waits on a server. No account, no sign-in, no check with a server before anything opens. Bohm and your apps work without an internet connection.

Try it with the app you need.

Bohm is free on Windows 10 and 11. It installs without administrator rights and works without an internet connection.