wtf is blendy?

Blendy is a desktop tutor app that connects Blender, the free 3D modeling program, to an AI chat model running privately on your own computer through a program called LM Studio. It is meant purely as a teacher and guide: it can look at your current Blender scene and screenshots of your window to give advice, but it never writes or runs Blender scripts on its own, so it will not change your project for you. To use it, you need a Windows computer, Blender version 4 or newer, and LM Studio set up with its local server turned on and a chat model loaded. The project recommends the Gemma 4 family of models because they can understand screenshots and use Blendy's built in reference tools, though Blendy checks whatever model you have loaded and adjusts which features it offers based on what that model can actually do. After installing Blendy with its Windows installer, a small add-on appears inside Blender's sidebar, letting you launch the Blendy desktop app directly from there. The add-on creates a small local bridge so the desktop app can read your current scene. If the sidebar tab does not appear automatically, the README walks through enabling the add-on manually from Blender's preferences, or installing it from a backup zip file included in the release. While chatting, you describe what you are working on, follow suggested checkpoints, and can ask Blendy to check your current progress against a screenshot of the live scene, ask for help when stuck, or ask exactly where in Blender to look for a certain tool. A notebook feature lets you save goals and ongoing decisions that persist across sessions, and Blendy warns you if you switch to a different saved file so old context does not get mixed in by mistake. Everything runs locally by default, with external web search off unless you turn it on, and the README lists in detail what data stays stored on your own computer, including chat history, scene facts, and temporary screenshots that get deleted right after use.