5ire

Desktop AI assistant for macOS, Windows and Linux that connects to Ollama or cloud models and supports a local document knowledge base and MCP tools.

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5ire is a desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with models, ask questions about their documents and use external tools in the same app. It connects to local LLMs through Ollama and to cloud providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and DeepSeek.

Document knowledge base: Bring Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, text and CSV files into chats, with bge-m3 processing multilingual document embeddings and storing them locally.
MCP tools: Give models access to files, system information, databases and remote data through connected MCP servers; a community directory helps you find servers.
Reusable prompts: Organize prompts with variables for tasks you repeat.
Search and bookmarks: Search across conversations by keyword and keep bookmarked content even after you delete the original messages.
API usage tracking: Review API consumption and spending within the app.

The app is free and runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, with Mac downloads for Apple Silicon and Intel. Document processing and embedding storage run locally. Cloud model requests go to the provider you choose, and connected MCP servers can access remote services. The optional MCP tools feature requires Python, Node.js and uv.