[ open source ] · [ native app ] · [ local-first ] · [ bring your own AI ]
Create a community.
Explore a hypothesis.
Watch what happens.
Sorcerer brings small digital worlds to life. Summon agents with personalities, goals, relationships and memory, drop in a “what if…?”, and watch opinions form, collide and spread — round by round.
install in Terminal, opens right away:
$ curl -fsSL https://sorcererapp.dev/install.sh | shfree · macOS 15+ · Apple silicon & Intel. Using the .dmg? macOS blocks it once because Sorcerer isn't signed with a paid Apple account: open it, then System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway. details
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— 01 / how it works
It starts with a question.
Describe a hypothesis, give the world some context, and populate it. Everything after that is observation — and a little bit of meddling.
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Summon a community
Create characters with personalities, interests, goals, relationships and their own memories. Seed the world with your texts and documents.
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02
Cast a hypothesis
Start with “What if…?”. Introduce a product, a price, a rumor or a rule, and let it ripple through the community.
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03
Observe and branch
Follow the rounds, talk to characters, inject events — then save a moment and fork it to compare how each path evolves.
— 02 / a simulation, live
Watch every post, reply and change of heart.
Rounds play out in the open. Pause anytime, inject an event, or pull a character aside to ask what they really think.
example scenario · fictional app “Lumen” raises its plan from $9 to $14 a month
@ada posted r1
$14 a month for notes? I'll wait and see what actually changes.
@bruno posted r1
If sync gets faster, I'd pay it.
@chen posted r2
Is there a student plan? That's the real question.
@dara replied to @ada r2
For a team of eight that's $40 more a month. I need a reason to sign off.
@eli posted r3
A price hike with no new features reads as a cash grab.
@fumi replied to @eli r3
Annual at $120 would soften this a lot.
⚡ round 4 · event injected by you — Lumen announces offline mode.
@bruno posted r4
Offline mode changes it. Upgrading today.
private chat · you ↔ @eli
you › what would change your mind?
eli › A student tier, or a changelog that shows where the extra $5 goes.
— 03 / branching
Save a moment.
Fork the future.
Freeze the community at any round and split it into alternate paths. Same people, same memories, one different decision — then compare how each world unfolds.
A sentiment … objections …
B sentiment … objections …
— 04 / the spellbook
Everything you need to run an experiment.
[01]
Communities
Create and tune communities of agents around any question.
[02]
Characters with memory
Profiles, relationships and memory that persists across rounds.
[03]
Grounded context
Seed the world with your own texts and documents.
[04]
Round-based simulation
Every post, reply and disagreement, visible as it happens.
[05]
Live interventions
Inject events and change conditions mid-experiment.
[06]
One-on-one chats
Pull any character aside and ask them why.
[07]
Branching scenarios
Save a moment, fork it, and compare alternate futures.
[08]
Traceable reports
Findings linked back to the moments that produced them.
[09]
Usage control
Pause and resume around your providers' limits.
[10]
Export & share
Package scenarios and experiments for others to run.
things people ask it ↓
- What if our customers saw this product tomorrow?product reactions
- What if we charged $9 instead of $14?pricing · A/B branch
- What if this headline hit the group chat?how news spreads
- What if the forum banned anonymous posts?community rules
- What if a dragon moved into the village?fiction · social dynamics
for the curious · researchers · creators · developers · product teams
— 05 / your machine, your models
Open source. Native. Local by default.
┌─ your machine ───────────────┐
│ │
│ sorcerer.app ● │
│ ├── communities/ │
│ ├── characters/ │
│ ├── history/ │
│ └── settings │
│ │
└──────────────┬───────────────┘
│
│ only what a round needs
│
┌───────┼───────┐
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subscription api key local model- { }
Open source
Read the code, fork it, extend it. Licensed under MIT.
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A native app
A real Mac app: SwiftUI, a 4 MB download, Apple silicon and Intel. No account on our side.
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Stored locally
Communities, settings and history live on your disk. When you use an external provider, only the data a round needs is sent to it for processing.
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Bring your own AI
Use the subscriptions you already pay for through each provider's integrations — or API keys and local models. Sorcerer paces itself, pauses at your limits and picks up where it left off.
! a note on resultsSimulations surface possible reactions, objections and consequences. Treat them as hypotheses to investigate — they don't replace evidence from the real world.
Ask better questions before you act.
$ curl -fsSL https://sorcererapp.dev/install.sh | shThe .dmg isn't signed with a paid Apple developer account, so macOS blocks it once: open it, then System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway. The Terminal command skips that step.