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Reor is a local AI note-taking app for people who want to search their own writing, find connections between ideas and ask questions about their notes. The project is archived and no longer maintained. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, and it's open source under AGPL-3.0.

AppFlowy is a self-hosted Notion alternative for teams that want project management, shared documents, and AI in an environment they control. Its self-hosted enterprise offering can run on premises, in your own cloud, or in an air-gapped environment. Self-hosted LLMs and embedding models let you keep AI processing and workspace data inside your infrastructure, with no vendor access to your instance.

Eclaire is a self-hosted AI assistant for notes, documents, photos, bookmarks and tasks. You can ask questions about saved material, inspect the sources behind an answer and ask the assistant to create notes or update tasks. Scheduled automations handle recurring requests such as a weekly task summary.

OpenWhispr is a free, MIT-licensed dictation and meeting transcription app for people who want voice input across their apps with control over where processing happens. It's available on macOS, Windows, Linux and iOS. Local transcription works offline and keeps audio on your device; optional cloud transcription sends audio to the selected provider, whose retention policies apply.

SurfSense is an open-source NotebookLM alternative that turns documents into cited answers and editable deliverables on your computer. It's a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, aimed at people working with confidential files, research or study material. You don't need an account.