Yes. Vox is 100% free and open source under the MIT license. No subscription, no usage limits, no hidden costs.

Does Vox work offline?

Yes. After the initial model download, Vox runs entirely on your Mac with no internet connection required.

Vox runs locally on your hardware. Your conversations, files, and data never leave your device. No cloud, no telemetry.

What can Vox do that ChatGPT cannot?

Vox controls your desktop — it manages files, sends emails, replies to iMessages, captures screen regions, and runs background agents. It works offline and keeps all data on your device.

Does Vox work on Windows or Linux?

Vox is Mac-first today. The core architecture is platform-agnostic, and Windows and Linux support is the top contributor priority.

Automating Figma Workflows with Vox and MCP

Figma now has an official MCP server. Connect it to Vox once and you can talk to your design files in plain English — no more manually copying color tokens, hunting for component names, or exporting assets one by one.

Setup: connect Figma MCP

Open the Vox Tools panel → MCP Servers → Connect. Set the transport to stdio and use this command:

Tip

npx -y figma-developer-mcp --figma-api-key=YOUR_TOKEN
Get your token from figma.com/settings → Personal access tokens. Paste the token as a secret instead of inline if you prefer.

Hit Sync. Vox imports all available Figma tools into its library.

What you can do

“Computer, list all the components in my design system file.”

✓Searching tool library → figma_get_file_componentsDone

✓Calling Figma API with your file IDDone

✓Extracting 48 componentsDone

4Writing component-list.txt to DesktopRunning

“Computer, extract all color tokens from my Figma file and format them as CSS variables.”

✓Calling figma_get_file_stylesDone

✓Parsing 23 color stylesDone

✓Generating CSS custom propertiesDone

4Saved tokens.css to DesktopRunning

“Computer, what changed in my Figma file since last week?”

✓Calling figma_get_file_versionsDone

✓Comparing version historyDone

3Summarizing 7 changes across 3 framesRunning

Why this is better than the Figma plugin

The Figma Dev Mode plugin is great for inspecting a single component. But Vox operates across your entire file — and can chain Figma actions with other tools. Extract your tokens, format them as CSS, and write them directly to your codebase in one command.

Note

Vox can combine Figma MCP with its built-in file tools. "Extract my design tokens and commit them to my repo" would use Figma MCP to read the tokens and run_local_command to run git commit.

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