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usonian

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Tue May 5, 2026, 01:23 PM Tuesday

Outcry, Activist AI mentor. For iphone, ipad, macs with M-chips. Passing this along. [View all]

I found this via Hacker News.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/outcry-activist-ai-mentor/id6762086768
1.9Gigabytes. Requires ios18 or later or MacOS 15 or later, with M1 chip or newer.

Outcry now runs offline on your iPhone, iPad, Mac: trained on real organizer conversations. By Micah Bornfree, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street. No accounts. No tracking.

Outcry is a private, on-device AI mentor for activists, organizers, and movement builders. No cloud. No accounts. No tracking. Your conversations never leave your phone.

Created by Micah Bornfree, PhD — co-creator of Occupy Wall Street and author of THE END OF PROTEST — and fine-tuned on thousands of real activist mentoring conversations, organizing guides, and movement case studies. It thinks like an organizer, not a corporate chatbot.

WHAT ORGANIZERS USE IT FOR
• Campaign strategy: plan direct actions, marches, and escalation timelines
• Speech and proposal writing: draft rally speeches, funder pitches, coalition letters
• Movement theory: explore frameworks from Sharp to Turchin to the Combahee River Collective
• Tactical problem-solving: messaging, media strategy, fundraising, legal questions
• Deep strategic dialogue: many users run 50–100+ message conversations on a single organizing challenge

HOW IT WORKS
1. Download once. The AI model lives on your device — that's why the install is large and that's why it's private.
2. Open Outcry. Start a conversation. No login, no email, no phone number.
3. Talk like you would to a trusted senior organizer. Outcry responds with strategy, history, and concrete next steps.

BUILT FOR ACTIVISTS WHO TAKE SECURITY SERIOUSLY
Every conversation stays on your device. Outcry uses an on-device AI model — nothing is sent to a server, ever. No analytics. No telemetry. No account. Designed to be safe for organizers facing surveillance.

WHO IT'S FOR
Faith leaders planning marches. Labor organizers preparing steward training. Mutual aid facilitators rethinking their approach. First-time activists trying to understand how change actually works.
Outcry meets you where you are.

FEATURES
• On-device AI mentor fine-tuned for activism and social change
• Searchable chat library — find any past conversation by keyword
• Works offline. Works on airplane mode. Works in a kettle.
• Free. No subscriptions. No paywalls. No ads. Forever.
• Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac (Apple silicon)

WHO BUILT IT
Outcry was created by Micah Bornfree, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, author of THE END OF PROTEST (Knopf Canada), and longtime activist educator. The model is fine-tuned on real movement texts — not generic internet chat.

PRIVACY
We collect zero data. There is no cloud component. There is no account. There is no one reading your chats with

Comment:
This is fine-tuned AI on a specific data set, unlike monster LLM's.
Extended quote. I don't think the author will mind!

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