Local AI Chat Apps and Assistants

Claudeck is a self-hosted browser workspace for developers who want to manage Claude Code conversations and coding tasks together. It combines ongoing chats with agent workflows and repository tools.

IntelliBar is an AI assistant for Mac for writing, proofreading and asking questions across local and cloud models. It brings those models into one app so you can compare their answers without moving between separate chat services.

MirrorMate puts a voice assistant in a physical mirror for people who want to ask questions, check daily information or chat without reaching for a phone. It remembers details from conversations to personalize later responses.

Chatbox is an AI chat app for people who want to use local models and cloud providers in one interface. It supports Ollama for local LLM use, plus GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek with your own API keys.

Chat with GPT is an unofficial ChatGPT client for people who want voice conversations and control over the chat interface. You can self-host the app, but its AI chat and speech recognition depend on OpenAI's cloud services.

Front Porch AI is a desktop app for character chat and roleplay with local LLMs. It's for people who want to keep their conversations on their own machine while building stories with characters that retain memories and changing emotional states.

Cloak by Polyaura is an on-device AI app for people who want to chat and work with voice recordings on their iPhone or iPad without sending them to a cloud service. It works without an internet connection after the initial model download.

DEEIX Chat is a self-hosted AI workspace for individuals and teams that want one place to use multiple model providers. It combines everyday chat with controls for organizations managing shared model access and usage.

Google AI Edge Gallery is a local AI app for people who want to use and compare generative models on their own devices. Model inference runs on-device, including offline chat and media tasks.

Osaurus runs AI agents on your Mac for tasks such as reviewing documents, organizing files, and writing code. It keeps agent memory on your computer, so you can change models without losing the context of your work.

Halo is a desktop AI workstation for people who want agents to write code, manage files and handle recurring work through a visual interface. You can switch between Claude Code and Codex within the same app.

Backyard AI is a desktop AI app powered by llama.cpp. The desktop app is deprecated and no longer supported, which limits its suitability for people choosing software for ongoing use.

SwarmLLM is a ChatGPT alternative for people who want to run AI models on their own hardware. It can use a single computer or combine several machines to handle a model that won't fit on one.

llmcord is a self-hosted Discord bot for people who want to share AI conversations with friends or a community. It connects Discord chats to local models or remote providers. Conversation history stays in Discord, even when the model runs on your own hardware.

Lotti is a private logbook for people who want to keep their plans and a record of what actually happened together. It connects daily planning with personal notes and work history while keeping the underlying record on your devices.

PicoClaw is a self-hosted personal AI assistant that can use local models through Ollama or vLLM. It's aimed at people who want an agent on their own hardware, including small Linux boards and Android phones. Hosted providers are optional, but choosing OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini or DeepSeek sends model requests to those services and requires internet access and API keys.

Kelivo is an LLM chat client for people who want local and cloud models in one app while keeping conversation history on their device. It connects to Ollama, self-hosted OpenAI-compatible services and providers including OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and OpenRouter.

Personal LLM runs AI chat on your phone for people who want to ask questions without sending them to a cloud model. Chat, photo analysis and document questions work offline after you download a model and any required image support files.

AI Notebook is a desktop research notebook for asking questions about your own documents and checking the passages behind the answers. It suits people who want a local NotebookLM alternative with their research and notes in one workspace.

Octipus is a self-hosted AI workspace for people who want agents to work on code, research, and recurring tasks while keeping the results open to review. A lead agent can use tools itself or assign bounded work to specialist agents. You can inspect the sources, changes, checks, and execution records behind an answer.

GPT4All is a local AI chatbot for people who want language models and document conversations on their own computer. Model inference and LocalDocs processing run on the device without a cloud connection.

NextChat is an AI chat interface for people who want to use self-deployed LLMs and cloud models in one application. It connects to LocalAI and RWKV-Runner, and supports OpenAI, Claude, Google Gemini and DeepSeek.

PrivateLM is an AI chat app for people who want to run models on their phone or tablet and choose when to use a cloud provider. It supports local inference on Android and iOS; the browser version requires cloud APIs.

Dive is a desktop AI agent for people who want a language model to work with files, shell commands and connected tools. It supports models with function calling and acts as a host for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

Navigator is a self-hosted AI workspace for individuals and teams who want assistants to carry out tasks through connected tools. It combines chat with custom agents and reusable visual workflows.

JARLIS is a self-hosted AI email assistant for people who want help sorting their inbox while keeping control over outgoing replies. It prepares drafts for review, flags messages that need attention and archives low-priority mail. It never sends replies automatically.

Tel-Agent is an AI receptionist for businesses that want phone calls and customer messages handled by one agent on their own server. Recordings and transcripts stay on your machine, but its voice setup uses Deepgram, a cloud LLM and ElevenLabs, requiring internet access and your own API keys.

OpenCrust is a self-hosted AI assistant platform for people who want agents to handle tasks through their messaging apps. Named agents can pass work to one another and retain conversation memory between sessions.

big-AGI is a browser-based AI workspace for developers, researchers and people who need to compare answers across models. It lets you examine separate responses and combine them while keeping control over model choice and reusable context.

RecurseChat is a Mac app for people who want private AI conversations and answers drawn from their own documents. Local models run without an internet connection or a separate server.

OpenBitFun is a desktop AI agent workspace for coding and other tasks that use files and shell commands on your machine or a selected SSH host. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Model requests go to the configured provider; built-in cloud connections send them to external services, and custom providers are also supported.

RisuAI is an AI roleplay client for people who want to create characters and fictional worlds, then develop stories through conversation. It supports chats with individual characters or groups.

ChatFiles is a self-hosted document chatbot for people who want to question their uploaded files in a browser. The application runs locally, while its GPT integration makes remote API calls. Document chat also requires a Supabase vector database.

Selene is a desktop AI agent app for coding, browser tasks and personal assistants. You can choose local or cloud processing separately for chat, embeddings, voice and image generation.