OffivelleOffivelle vs OpenClaw
OpenClaw (the OpenClaw Foundation): the popular open-source personal assistant you run on your own computer and talk to through chat apps.
Pick OpenClaw if…
- you want to talk to it from the most chat apps (WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord and more);
- you want the biggest ecosystem of add-ons and are happy in a terminal;
- you want phone apps.
Pick Offivelle if…
- you want an app with sign-in inside it, not a terminal installer that needs Node 24;
- you want a team in an office you can watch, with approvals and a budget built in;
- you want add-ons pinned to an exact version and checked against a malware database before they install.
| Question | Offivelle | OpenClaw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free app. Agents use your own ChatGPT plan (through Codex) or Claude plan (through Claude Code, which draws on your plan’s monthly agent credit, then extra usage), or free models on your Mac. Offivelle sells no AI credits. | Free; you pay your AI provider.1 |
| Where you can get it | Every country. The app speaks 11 languages, and agents answer in yours. | Anywhere. |
| Where it runs | Your Mac (macOS 13 or later). Chat and approvals from your phone through Telegram, or the phone app on your Wi-Fi or Tailscale. Your own Linux server with Docker. Windows is coming. | Your own computer or server. Apps for macOS, iOS, Android, Windows and Linux; talks through WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, Slack, Discord, Teams and more.1 |
| Which AI does the work | Your choice: ChatGPT (through OpenAI’s Codex), Claude (through Anthropic’s Claude Code) or free local models through Ollama. Pick several and they back each other up. | Any hosted or local model; ChatGPT sign-in works. Claude Pro and Max plans stopped covering third-party tools like it on April 4, 2026.1, 2, 3 |
| One agent or a team | A team: a CEO who plans the work and hires from 46 roles in 13 departments. Several people can share a company, with roles from viewer to admin. | A personal assistant; several agents can run, each with its own workspace.4 |
| Approvals | Emails, publishing and spending wait for your OK, on the Mac or by Telegram. “Always allow” rules for what you trust, a daily budget, and one tap pauses everyone. | Command approvals (ask, or an allowlist); the sandbox is off by default.5 |
| Your data and training | Stays on your Mac. Prompts go only to the AI you chose (nowhere, with a local model). Offivelle doesn’t train on it or show ads; anonymous usage counts only if you say yes. | Stays on your machine; prompts go to the model provider you pick.1 |
| Memory you can see and edit | Yes: plain Markdown notes in a folder you own (an Obsidian vault, kept with git). Read, edit, move or delete them. | Yes: plain Markdown files you can read and edit.6 |
| Works with your computer off | While your Mac is on, or around the clock on your own server. | While your computer or server is on. |
| Its face | A 3D office of people whose looks you choose; bring your own 3D characters. | A lobster mascot.7 |
| Open source | Yes: the code is published under AGPL-3.0 at launch. | Yes: MIT, about 390k GitHub stars (Oct 8, 2026).1 |
Moving from OpenClaw
- Open Offivelle → Settings → Bring your Muse or OpenClaw. It finds your OpenClaw workspace on this Mac by itself.
- Tick what comes over: SOUL.md and IDENTITY.md become your CEO’s personality and name, USER.md goes into your company brief, MEMORY.md and your daily notes become notes in your memory folder.
- Keys and logins are never opened (openclaw.json, credentials, .env), and skills don’t come over: add tools from Offivelle’s Library, where they are checked first.
Sources
Facts checked on October 8, 2026 from the public sources listed above. Products change quickly: if something here is out of date, tell us and we’ll fix it. OpenClaw is a trademark of the OpenClaw Foundation; Offivelle isn’t affiliated with the OpenClaw Foundation.