Local AI Chat Apps and Assistants

OpenEnsemble is a self-hosted AI assistant platform for people who want shared access on their own server, with a separate workspace for each user. Linux is the main installation target; macOS supports local development with different feature support. You can choose a single assistant or an ensemble of specialist agents using different models. It's open source under AGPL-3.0.

Chatless is a desktop AI chat client for people who want local models and cloud services in one app. It keeps conversation history on your computer and lets you ask questions about your own documents.

BrainSoup is a desktop AI agent app for people who want to automate tasks with assistants that have distinct roles and access to their own documents. You direct the agents through conversation and can have them work together on a shared task.

OfflineLLM is an on-device AI chat app for Android users who want to run models locally without sending conversations to a cloud service. It works fully offline and has no network permissions.

Jan is a desktop AI chat app for people who want to run models on their own computer while retaining the option to use cloud providers. Local model use works offline; choosing a hosted model sends requests to that provider.

NullClaw runs AI agents on your own hardware or server for coding work and automated background tasks. It's aimed at developers who want an assistant that can carry out multi-step jobs with controls over its access and actions.

Fabric organizes reusable AI prompts by task for people who want repeatable ways to analyze content, write, or work with code. Its community-contributed prompts, called Patterns, provide a starting point without requiring you to write each prompt yourself.

Scarf gives people running the Hermes AI agent a native interface for conversations, project work and host management. It requires an existing Hermes installation; the iPhone companion, ScarfGo, connects directly to your hosts over SSH.

Super Agent Party is an AI companion platform for people who want a desktop character that can also carry out tasks. It combines character conversations with agents that operate applications and interact through messaging or live streams.

ChuanhuChatGPT is a self-hosted web interface for people who want to chat with local LLMs and cloud models in one application. It also supports document questions and automated agent tasks.

Nativ is a macOS app for people who want AI chat and coding tools to use models running on their own Mac. It combines a chat workspace, model library, and local inference server.

SnowChat is a self-hosted text-to-SQL app for people who want to ask questions about their Snowflake data in plain language. It generates SQL and returns results through a Streamlit chat interface, so analysts and business users can explore data without writing every query themselves. A hosted demo is also available.

Hold Speak is a macOS menu bar app for people who want to dictate prompts to AI agents or enter text in other apps. It runs Whisper locally on your GPU through WhisperKit and CoreML, so local transcription works offline and keeps speech on your Mac. Push-to-talk dictation inserts the transcript into the focused text field.

LLM is a command-line tool and Python library for developers who want to use language models in terminal workflows or applications. It supports models running on your machine alongside remote providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.

SeekerClaw runs a personal AI agent on Android phones for people who want recurring tasks, device control and Solana wallet actions through Telegram or Discord. The agent stays active in the background and uses Claude, OpenAI, OpenRouter or an OpenAI-compatible gateway for its AI engine.

AlexClaw is a personal AI agent for monitoring information sources and automating recurring tasks on your own infrastructure. It has one operator and no multi-user access control.

Hermes HUD is a browser dashboard for people who already run the Hermes AI agent and want to inspect its activity and persistent memory. It requires a running agent and reads its local data.

Msty is a family of AI products for individuals, teams and organizations working with models and their own knowledge. Msty Studio is its workspace product, with separate products for agents and centralized model access.

Open Assistant is a self-hosted personal AI assistant for people who want it to act on their email, calendar, files, and notes. It runs in a single Docker container with a browser interface. A coordinator assigns requests to specialist agents, so a conversation can lead to finding an invoice, scheduling a meeting, or researching a topic.

Fluid is a local AI assistant for Mac users who want to ask questions without sending their chats to a hosted model. It runs Meta Llama 3 on your Mac and supports offline conversations.

Icebreaker is a local AI chat app for people who want to converse with language models running on their own hardware. It uses llama.cpp, with Hugging Face also part of its model stack.

Robby chatbot is an open source web app for people who want to ask questions about their documents, analyze tables in plain language, or summarize YouTube videos. You can run the Streamlit app on your own machine on macOS, Linux or Windows. A hosted Streamlit app is also available.

Max Headbox is a local AI agent for people who want a voice-controlled assistant that can carry out actions on a Raspberry Pi. It processes voice and runs models on your own hardware without relying on cloud AI providers.

exxperts is a local AI agent app for people who want ongoing work to carry across conversations while deciding what the assistant remembers. Persistent workspaces called rooms keep each agent's memory, files and tools together.

Fullmoon is a local LLM chat app for people who want conversations to stay on their Apple devices. It runs models on-device and works fully offline, with chat history saved locally.

OpenClaw is an AI assistant you run on your own computer for personal tasks or shared team use. It connects to existing messaging services, so you can reach the assistant through the apps you already use.

Mikupad is a browser-based LLM frontend for writers and anyone who wants to edit and guide generated text. It connects to a separate model backend and keeps writing context attached to your prompts.

Qwen-Agent is a Python framework for developers building assistants that use Qwen models to read files and carry out tasks with tools. It provides ready-made agent components and example applications for custom assistants and browser assistance.

OpenFang runs recurring AI tasks on your own machine and reports their results to a desktop dashboard. It's for people who want research, monitoring or business automation to continue on a schedule without starting each job in chat.

Pretype is a local AI writing assistant for people who want sentence suggestions across their Mac apps. It works in native apps, Electron apps and web text fields without separate plugins for each app.

Newelle is a Linux desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with local models and use AI to work with documents and files. It also supports external model providers.

HanaAgent is an open-source desktop AI agent for everyday computer work and coding, with user data stored on your machine. It runs on macOS, including Apple Silicon and Intel, and Linux. It supports Ollama local models as well as OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic-style and OAuth provider connections. Local inference uses Ollama; requests to a cloud provider go to that service.

tlm is a terminal assistant for people who want help writing shell commands or understanding commands they've found elsewhere. It uses local models through Ollama rather than a cloud AI service.

DwarfStar is a local LLM inference engine for people who want to run large DeepSeek, GLM and Qwen models on their own computers or servers. It focuses on selected models and hardware setups, and requires the project's own GGUF files rather than accepting arbitrary GGUF downloads.