QuickVoice

Open-source AI phone-agent infrastructure you can run, inspect, and extend.

QuickVoice is the open-source Retell alternative for teams that want control over the voice-agent stack instead of only consuming a closed hosted API. It gives teams the full product surface in one repo: a marketing site, customer console, API server, LiveKit-powered AI worker, telephony integrations, knowledge bases, call logs, outbound campaigns, billing paths, and local development tooling.

Website: quickvoice.co

30-Second Tour

• What it does: build AI agents that answer inbound calls, place outbound calls, use uploaded knowledge, and record operational outcomes.
• Why it exists: keep the voice-agent stack inspectable instead of outsourcing every runtime, data, cost, and telephony decision to a closed platform.
• What you can run locally: the web app, console, API, AI service, Postgres, Redis, Prisma migrations, and generated dev env files.
• What needs real credentials: real phone calls require LiveKit plus Twilio or Telnyx credentials; billing, OAuth, email, and storage need their provider keys.

flowchart LR
  Visitor[GitHub visitor] --> Run[task up:dev]
  Run --> Web[Marketing site]
  Run --> Console[Customer console]
  Run --> API[Express API and docs]
  API --> DB[(Postgres)]
  API --> Redis[(Redis)]
  API --> Worker[AI service and LiveKit worker]
  Worker --> Phone[Twilio or Telnyx]

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Quick Start

If your machine already has Docker, Docker Compose, Go Task, Node.js >=18, and Python 3, the local path is one command:

task up:dev

task up and task dev are aliases. Go Task treats spaces as separate task names, so prefer task up:dev for the explicit form.

First things to open:

• Console: http://localhost:3000
• Marketing site: http://localhost:3001
• API health: http://localhost:5000/api/v1/health
• API docs: http://localhost:5000/api/v1/docs
• AI API health: http://localhost:5555/health

On a fresh Ubuntu host, install the missing host tools first:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y docker.io docker-compose-v2 golang-go
sudo usermod -aG docker "$USER"
go install github.com/go-task/task/v3/cmd/task@latest
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/go/bin"

Reconnect the SSH session after changing Docker group membership. Then run:

task up:dev

The task creates local env files from *.env.dev.example, activates pnpm@9.0.0, installs Node dependencies with the frozen lockfile, creates the AI Python virtualenv, starts Postgres and Redis through docker-compose.dev.yml, runs Prisma migrations, and launches the local services above.

The Docker Compose database credentials are dev-only placeholders (quickvoice / quickvoice) and the Postgres and Redis ports are bound to 127.0.0.1. Edit the generated env files after the first run if you need real Google, Stripe, LiveKit, Twilio, Telnyx, SMTP, or AWS credentials. Generated env files are ignored by git.

Optional local email testing is available through a Docker Compose profile:

docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml --env-file .env.dev --profile mail up -d mailpit

Useful individual tasks:

task doctor
task env:dev
task docker:up
task db:migrate
task db:seed -- --email you@example.com
task ci
task server:dev
task console:dev
task web:dev
task ai:api
task ai:worker

Common root commands:

pnpm build
pnpm lint
pnpm check-types
pnpm test
pnpm ci:local
pnpm audit:deps -- --audit-level high

Why QuickVoice

Voice agents are becoming core business infrastructure. Hosted APIs are useful when speed and convenience matter most. QuickVoice is for teams that also need source-level control, self-hosting options, privacy review, cost visibility, and a path to extend the product for their own workflows.

• Control: run the console, API, worker, database, and telephony bindings yourself.
• Self-hosting: evaluate the local stack with task up:dev, then decide how and where to deploy.
• Privacy: inspect storage, logs, call metadata, recordings, transcripts, and runtime configuration before production use.
• Cost visibility: bring your own LiveKit, Twilio or Telnyx, Postgres, Redis, and S3-compatible storage instead of treating every dependency as an opaque bundle.
• Extensibility: fork the repo, modify agents, add knowledge sources, wire new providers, or adapt permissions, billing, and campaign workflows.

What You Can Build

• Inbound AI receptionists and support agents
• Outbound sales, reminders, collections, and follow-up workflows
• Appointment scheduling and qualification calls
• Knowledge-backed agents that answer from uploaded sources
• Campaigns that call many contacts and track outcomes
• Voice automation for healthcare, financial services, logistics, real estate, ecommerce, and operations teams

What's Inside

• apps/web - Next.js website with product pages, use cases, industry pages, blog content, pricing, and legal pages.
• apps/console - Next.js customer console for organizations, agents, numbers, calls, knowledge bases, API keys, billing, and settings.
• apps/server - Express API server with auth, permissions, agent configuration, phone numbers, call logs, outbound calls, Stripe, Twilio, Telnyx, LiveKit, S3, and Inngest integrations.
• apps/ai - Python AI service and LiveKit worker handlers for runtime configuration, call logging, and voice-agent execution.
• packages/eslint-config and packages/typescript-config - Shared monorepo linting and TypeScript configuration.
• scripts, Taskfile.yml, and docker-compose.dev.yml - Local orchestration for Node services, Python services, Prisma, Postgres, and Redis.

Stack

• Product and marketing: Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS
• API: Express, TypeScript, Better Auth
• Voice runtime: LiveKit, Python workers
• Telephony: Twilio and Telnyx
• Data: Postgres, Prisma, S3-compatible object storage
• Billing: Stripe
• Monorepo: pnpm and Turborepo

Open Source And Commercial Use

QuickVoice is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

You can use, study, modify, and distribute the code under the AGPL. If you modify QuickVoice and make it available to users over a network, the AGPL requires you to make the corresponding source code available under the same license.

For teams that need a commercial license, managed hosting, implementation support, or enterprise terms, contact QuickVoice through quickvoice.co.

This section is not legal advice. Review the AGPL and consult counsel for your specific use case.

Support The Project

If QuickVoice helps you evaluate open voice-agent infrastructure, a GitHub star is a useful public signal. It helps maintainers see where there is interest without adding prompts to the product or asking for coordinated votes.

Star QuickVoice on GitHub

Community

QuickVoice is built in public for teams that want programmable, inspectable phone automation.

• Open issues for bugs, gaps, and integration requests.
• Read CONTRIBUTING.md before submitting a pull request.
• Report security issues through SECURITY.md.

License

AGPL-3.0-only. See LICENSE.