Local AI Chat Apps and Assistants

Liquid Apollo is a local AI playground for people who want to interact with AI without relying on cloud processing. It focuses on low-latency interaction.

HilbertRaum is a local AI workspace for people working with confidential documents, research, or personal archives. It lets you use AI without sending your files or conversations to an external service.

HolaOS is a desktop AI workspace with a self-hostable runtime for teams that want agents to work with their apps and files. Claude Code, Codex and its built-in agent share tools and project memory. Workspace storage is local. Default built-in model access uses your HolaOS account and hosted inference; you can also configure your own provider or compatible endpoint.

GLaDOS is a local AI voice assistant for people who want a conversational companion modeled on the personality core from Valve's Portal games. It combines a custom voice and dry humor with awareness of its surroundings.

OpenHuman is a personal AI assistant for people who want agents to act across their work apps and carry out repeatable tasks. Its orchestration engine manages multiple agents and workflows in one place.

Discord Ollama Bot lets a Discord community chat with language models hosted on the owner's hardware. It's for server owners who want to choose their own models and make an AI assistant available inside Discord.

Vibe-Trading is an installed Python research app with terminal and web interfaces for traders and analysts testing strategies or reviewing trades. The workspace runs on your machine, but its AI requests go to OpenRouter by default. Research also fetches external market data and web content.

Vanna is a Python framework for adding database chat to analytics applications and internal tools. The project is archived and no longer maintained.

Agent Chat UI gives developers a web interface for talking to their LangGraph agents and returning to existing conversations. It connects to an agent server you choose, so you can use it with a local development server or a remote deployment.

LlamaIndex Chat is a chatbot builder for people who want assistants that answer questions about their own documents. It's an example application built with LlamaIndexTS; you can host the app yourself, but it relies on cloud services for document indexing and AI responses.

ollama-telegram is a Telegram bot for people who want to chat with an Ollama model through their messaging app. The project is archived and no longer maintained.

Clawlet is a self-hosted personal AI agent for people who want an assistant on their own machine or server. It supports local models and can retrieve past context through optional memory search.

RAGs lets you create a chatbot that answers questions about a single local file or web page. It's for people who want to describe their task in plain language and review the resulting setup through a visual interface.

mods is an AI command-line tool for developers and shell users who want to ask questions about command output or pass model responses into pipelines. The project is archived and no longer maintained.

Chainlit's Python framework lets developers self-host conversational AI applications and provide a browser chat interface around their own application logic. Its OpenAI assistant example uses the OpenAI Python SDK’s standard connection, sending model requests to OpenAI’s cloud service. Self-hosting the chat server and supplying model inference are separate choices.