Local AI Chat Apps and Assistants

Assistant is a self-hosted AI agent for people who want to delegate work by email and receive the results in their inbox. It uses a dedicated mailbox, separate from your personal email, and also accepts tasks through a browser workspace or dashboard. You control how much autonomy it has.

Olares is a self-hosted personal cloud OS for individuals and small teams that want AI agents, models and apps on hardware they own. It brings local AI and everyday file storage into a shared workspace you can access through a browser.

Offeline is a local AI chat app for people who want to talk to AI on their phone or tablet without sending conversations to a hosted chatbot. It processes chats on the device.

Off Grid AI is a local AI app for people who want chat, document analysis and media tools on their own phone or computer. Downloaded models work offline, and the core app doesn't require an account.

Skales is an AI agent for people who want help with files, browsing, email and coding on their own devices. It can keep working on a goal after you close the chat and resume unfinished goals after a restart.

Pi Web is a browser workspace for developers using the pi coding agent. It shares pi's local conversations and configuration, so you can resume the same coding work in either interface.

Agent Pilot is a desktop AI workflow builder for people who want to combine model conversations with tools and code. It runs on Windows, Linux and Intel Macs and is open source under AGPL-3.0. You can chat with one model or build a graph of cooperating agents, with human input included where a task needs it.

Typebot is a visual builder for businesses creating chatbots and conversational forms for websites, mobile apps and WhatsApp. You can host it on your own server or use its managed cloud service.

Notion Knowledge Assistant is a self-hosted Telegram bot for people who keep research, reference notes or study material in Notion. You run the Python app on your own hardware or server, including through Docker, but answers depend on OpenAI's paid cloud API. It also needs connections to Notion and Telegram, so self-hosting doesn't make it an offline assistant.

Open Science Desktop brings research agents, notebooks and project files into one workbench for researchers who want to inspect the work behind an AI-generated result. Agents can carry a research topic through literature review, experiments, analysis and manuscript writing.

PocketPaw is a self-hosted AI agent for people who want an assistant to write code, manage files and act on websites from their own computer or server.

Taskyon is a browser-based AI workspace for people investigating technical problems and developing engineering designs. It keeps the work in a task tree so related questions, evidence and decisions stay connected.

Lexora is a personal desktop AI agent for research, creative projects and everyday planning as well as coding. It works toward a goal while you give direction and review its work.

DeskcommCRM is a self-hosted CRM for businesses selling through WhatsApp. Its AI agents handle customer conversations, qualify leads and support sales within the CRM.

ChatWise is a desktop AI chat app for people who want to use different model providers in one interface. It keeps chat data on your device while sending requests to the provider you choose.

Cloud CLI is a browser interface for developers who want to work with coding agents and manage projects from a computer or phone. It connects to Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor CLI and Codex, so you can access agent sessions beyond the terminal.

OpenWhispr is a dictation and meeting transcription app for people who want to write by voice and keep searchable records of conversations. It lets you choose local processing or cloud providers.

Oterm is a terminal chat client for people who want to use local LLMs or hosted models without a browser interface. It keeps separate conversations and their settings so you can return to ongoing work.

Airux Pocket AI runs AI conversations on Android phones for people who want offline chat and photo analysis without cloud inference. You don't need an account, and downloaded models run directly on your phone.

TUUI is a desktop AI chat application and Model Context Protocol (MCP) client for people who want to use model-connected tools in one interface. Developers can also extend it to build their own desktop AI applications.

Unsloth is a desktop app for people who want to chat with models, train them on their own data, and create media on their own hardware. Its no-code interface brings these tasks into one workspace.

CodeFuse ChatBot is a self-hosted AI assistant for developers and DevOps teams who want answers grounded in their own code repositories and documentation. It combines repository analysis with agents that can use tools and execute code in a sandbox, covering work across design, coding, testing, deployment and operations.

Inbox Zero helps people with busy inboxes sort incoming mail and prepare replies. It works alongside your existing email client and supports Gmail, Google Workspace and Microsoft Outlook.

OpenAgent is a personal AI assistant for people and teams who want agents to work with their documents and carry out tasks on their own computer or server.

Raycast Ollama is a desktop launcher extension for people who want to chat with models and work on text without leaving Raycast. It connects to Ollama running on your machine or a remote server you choose.

MindFS is a self-hosted browser gateway to AI agents and project files on your workstation, for people who want to continue coding from another computer or phone. It requires an installed agent CLI and includes no AI model. With Claude Code's standard cloud connection, execution happens on your host while prompts and model context go to its remote provider. The installed agent handles model access; MindFS hosts browser access to its work.

AIRI is a self-hosted AI companion for people who want to talk with a virtual character and have it participate in games. Inspired by Neuro-sama, it supports real-time voice conversations and is in early development.

RemiAI is a self-hosted AI assistant for people who want chat to work with their files and remember context between conversations. It can act on permitted folders and delegate longer tasks to specialized agents.

AIlice is an open source AI agent that runs on your own machine and handles tasks spanning research, software development and system administration. It's for people who want an assistant that can act on files, browse the web and execute code. Its Interactive Agents Call Tree architecture splits complex requests among agents created for the task, then combines their results.

Alpaca is an AI chat client for people who want to use models on their own device through a graphical interface. Ollama powers its local models, which work offline once downloaded.

Agenta is an AI agent workspace for teams that want to delegate work and manage recurring tasks together. Agents plan their own steps, use connected tools and carry feedback into later work.

Utsuwa is an AI companion for people who want a virtual character that remembers their conversations. It combines a 3D avatar with voice chat and optional relationship progression inspired by dating sims.

Tinybot is a desktop AI agent for people who want an assistant to work with their files and project folders. Workspaces keep related conversations together, and execution records let you inspect what the agent did and what it produced.

Atomic Chat is a local LLM app for people who want to chat with models on their own device or use them with coding assistants and AI agents. It began as a fork of Jan by Menlo Research.