tl;dr; Moondream Station is a one-click way to run Moondream locally. It's free, fast, and with no technical headaches. Download here.
After we launched Moondream last year, we hosted a hackathon in Seattle. It was clear right away that Vision Language Models (VLMs) are changing the game. Just by prompting, people were unlocking new ways to work with images.
What we learned that day stuck with us: even though Moondream can run on a laptop, developers would trip up on the installation and setup. They wanted something that just works. So we launched a cloud version, free.
However we also kept seeing people wanting to run it locally, and still stubbing their toes with the download and setup. So we finally rolled up our sleeves and did something about it. Today we're launching Moondream Station – a one-click solution to running Moondream locally.
Moondream Station manages all of the tedious parts for you. It manages the download, setup, and updates to run Moondream on your desktop. Once it's running, you can invoke Moondream either through the client command line, or write code that invokes it through a local port 2020 (hah!). Here's a video showing it in action:
It's Mac only for now, but Windows and Linux coming soon. We have a bunch of feature updates planned. Drop by on our Discord if you have questions or any problems.
