Lodol, running on your own computer.

Build and run workflows on your Mac, Windows PC or Linux machine, with everything kept on it.

  1. Get your licence

    Free for most people.

    How much has your organization raised or earned in total?

    Use the larger of outside funding raised and lifetime revenue, including any parent or subsidiary company. Personal use is always free.

    You’re legally required to pay for your organization’s real size and every user. See our Terms.

  2. Install Lodol Local

    A few minutes. When Lodol opens, paste in your licence.

    Open Terminal (search for it with Spotlight). Paste this and press Return.

    curl -fsSL https://get.lodol.com | sh

    macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon, or macOS 15 or later on Intel.

Installing

You need about 3 GB of free disk space and an internet connection.

  1. No administrator rights

    About 400 MB goes into a folder in your home directory. Nothing else changes.

  2. Opens in your browser

    At localhost:3900, and it starts on its own when you sign in to your computer.

  3. You're the owner

    After your licence, Lodol asks you to make an account. The first one owns the installation.

The lodol command

The installer adds a lodol command. lodol help lists the rest.

lodol open
Open Lodol in your browser.
lodol status
Is it running, and is an update waiting?
lodol update
Install the latest version. Your data is kept.
lodol backup
Back up everything to a file.
lodol stop
Stop Lodol. lodol start starts it again.
lodol uninstall
Remove Lodol. It asks before deleting your data.

Your data

Everything stays on your computer. Here’s what leaves it.

  1. Your data

    Workflows, runs, tables and connected accounts are kept in a local database. Sign-ins to your apps are encrypted with a key in your computer's keychain.

  2. Your apps

    Workflows reach Gmail, Slack or your database straight from your computer, not through Lodol's servers.

  3. Two daily checks

    Lodol Local asks get.lodol.com for updates, and api-prod.lodol.com for licences we've deactivated. Neither sends anything about you or your licence. To turn off the update check, set LODOL_UPDATE_CHECK=off in ~/.lodol/config.env.

Questions about Lodol Local

Lodol asks for it the first time it opens: paste it in and choose Unlock Lodol. To replace it later, go to Settings › Licence. Lost the email? Ask again with the same address. A free licence: it stays valid as long as your organization is under $800,000.

Everyone with an account, counted once across all your installations.

Buy a licence on lodol.com/local and paste it in Settings › Licence. Everything you've built carries on.

Reply to your licence email, or write to hello@lodol.com.

No. For workflows that run around the clock, install it on a computer or server that stays on.

It's the same builder and integrations, on your computer, with unlimited runs. The cloud runs around the clock without your computer, and adds Google sign-in, Lodol for Slack and AI tools that connect over the internet.

Yes. Download them from one and upload them to the other, then reconnect your apps.