Offline AI Chat Apps for Mac, Windows, Linux

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.

AIRI is a self-hosted AI companion for people who want a virtual character they can talk to and play games with. Inspired by Neuro-sama, it combines real-time voice conversation with game integrations for Minecraft and Factorio. The project is in early development; Factorio support is a work in progress with a proof of concept. It's open source under the MIT license.

Jan gives people a ChatGPT-style chat interface for AI models running on their own computer. It's free and available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Local chats work offline, with the model and conversation kept on your machine. You can also use cloud models when you want access to a hosted provider.

OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI assistant that connects your own computer to the messaging services you already use. It's for people who want a personal assistant on their laptop, or teams that want to run a shared assistant on their own hardware. The project is open source under the MIT license.

AnythingLLM is an open source AI assistant for people who want to chat with their documents and use AI agents on their own hardware. The desktop app runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, while a Docker deployment supports multiple users on a self-hosted server. No account is required for the desktop app.

Noema is a private local AI assistant for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. It's for people who want to chat with models and work with their own files on Apple hardware without depending on a cloud service. Local chats can stay on your device, and file retrieval runs there too.

LM Studio is a desktop application for downloading and running language models on macOS, Windows and Linux. You can search for models, manage downloads and chat with them through the app. Downloaded models can run offline, including document chat that uses files on your computer.

Cherry Studio is a free, open source desktop app for people who use several AI models and want their conversations in one place. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Chats, settings and knowledge base files are stored on your device.

Unsloth brings model training and everyday AI use into a desktop app for people who want to run models on their own hardware. Its no-code interface covers chat, fine-tuning and media generation on macOS, Windows and Linux. The Unsloth software is open source under Apache 2.0.

Off Grid AI runs language models on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux. You can chat, analyze documents and generate images on your own hardware. The mobile app uses the MIT license, while the desktop app uses AGPL.

Locally AI is a native app for running language and vision models on recent iPhones, iPads, and Macs. It's for people who want a private AI assistant on their own device, with text, image processing, and voice conversations available without cloud processing. Once a model is downloaded, it works offline and doesn't require an account.

RecurseChat is a paid Mac app for people who want to chat with AI and ask questions about their files on their own computer. It runs local LLMs without an internet connection or a server, keeping local conversations on the device. The same app also connects to Claude and ChatGPT, so you can choose local processing or a cloud provider.

Raycast is a proprietary desktop launcher that lets you use models running through Ollama within its AI assistant. It's for people who want private, offline conversations while keeping access to Raycast's chat and AI commands. Local model requests go directly to Ollama on your computer, without sending your conversations to Raycast or third parties. Local model access is paid.

Raycast Ollama brings Ollama models into Raycast on macOS and Windows, for people who want AI chat and text assistance within their desktop launcher. It connects to Ollama on your own machine or a remote server you choose. The extension is open source under the MIT license, and local inference doesn't require an Ollama API key.

Kerlig is a paid AI writing assistant for Mac that works with text in the apps you already use. It's aimed at people writing client emails, Slack replies and Jira tickets who want help editing and drafting without moving everything into a browser chat. It runs on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 12 or later.

BrainSoup is a proprietary native Windows app for people who want custom AI agents to handle work on their desktop. You can give agents distinct roles and access to different data, then have them collaborate in shared chat rooms. Natural-language conversations guide their tasks and automations.

Voxta is an AI companion for people who want a character they can talk to, give work to or use in interactive stories. You choose its personality, voice and optional avatar. The proprietary local-server edition has a browser interface, and AI processing can run entirely on your hardware, through Voxta Cloud or across a mix of local and cloud services.

Open-LLM-VTuber is a local AI companion for people who want a character they can talk to, with a Live2D avatar that responds through speech and expressions. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux through web and desktop clients. With local models for speech and language processing, it works fully offline and keeps conversations on your device. Cloud APIs are optional alternatives that send the corresponding processing to external services.

Amica is a locally runnable interface for talking with customizable 3D AI characters. It's for people who want an animated, voiced character as the face of their AI assistant, with a choice of local LLM backends or cloud services. The project builds on Pixiv's ChatVRM.

RisuAI is an open-source AI roleplay client for people who want to create characters, build fictional worlds and chat with several characters together. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and in a browser. You can also host the web app yourself with Docker.

MindMac is a native macOS AI chat client for people who want to use local LLMs and cloud services in the same app. Its inline mode lets you ask questions or generate text inside Notes, Mail and browsers without switching to a chat window. It runs on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 13 or newer.

Backyard AI's desktop app uses llama.cpp, a runtime for running language models locally. It's for people looking for a desktop AI app on Windows or macOS, with separate Mac downloads for Intel and Apple Silicon hardware.

5ire is a free desktop AI assistant that combines chat, a local document knowledge base and MCP tools. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, with Mac downloads for Apple Silicon and Intel. It's for people who want to use their own documents and external tools alongside conversations with local or cloud models.

Ollamac is a native macOS chat app for people who want to use Ollama models through a desktop interface. It works with all models supported by Ollama and can run offline through a local Ollama installation. Ollama handles the model execution; Ollamac provides the interface for conversations.

NextChat is a self-hosted AI chat interface for people who want one place to use their own LLM server and cloud models. The web and desktop project is open source under the MIT license. You can host it with Docker or on Vercel, and desktop clients run on macOS, Windows and Linux.

LLM Farm runs large language models offline on iOS and macOS. It's for people who want on-device AI chat or need to compare how different models perform on Apple hardware before choosing one for a project. The app is open source under the MIT license, with ggml and llama.cpp handling local inference.

Private LLM runs AI chat entirely on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. It's an app for people who want to use language models without sending their conversations to a cloud service. After the first model download, it works offline and requires no account. Conversations stay on-device, with no tracking or logs.

Hollama is an open-source LLM chat app whose interface runs entirely in your browser. It's for people who want to chat with local AI through Ollama or connect to OpenAI servers, with support for multiple server connections. The interface stores data locally in the browser; the connected server handles model requests, so where inference runs depends on the server you choose.

Fullmoon is an open source chat app for people who want to run language models on their Apple devices and keep conversations local. It supports iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS, with on-device inference optimized for Apple silicon. You can chat fully offline, and the app saves your chat history locally.

IntelliBar is an AI assistant for Mac that brings local models and cloud services into one desktop app. It's for people who want to write, proofread, or ask questions without switching between separate chat apps. Ollama support lets you run models locally and keep prompts away from remote providers.

ChatWise is a desktop chat app for connecting different model providers through one interface. It stores data locally; model processing follows the provider you choose. Its official documentation includes Ollama for models running on your own machine, alongside cloud providers connected with your API keys.

Witsy is an AGPL-3.0 desktop AI assistant for macOS, Windows and Linux that connects MCP tools to local and cloud models. It's for people who want document chat, writing help and voice features in one app, with a choice of where their models run.

Reins is an open-source chat app for people using self-hosted LLMs through Ollama. It runs on iOS, Android, macOS, Linux and Windows, giving Ollama users a mobile and desktop interface for experimenting with models. Reins is the client; Ollama provides the model backend.

BoltAI is a native Mac app for people who want local LLMs and cloud AI services in the same workspace. It runs on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs and suits coding, writing, research and document analysis. The interface uses SwiftUI and AppKit.

AstrBot brings AI assistants into messaging apps such as Telegram, Discord, Slack, QQ and WeCom. It's an open source platform under AGPL-3.0 for people building personal companions, customer support bots or team automation. You can run it on your own computer or server, including through Docker, or use its desktop app for browser-style chat.

text-generation-webui, also called TextGen, runs language models on your own hardware through a desktop app or a self-hosted browser interface. It's for people who want private chat and writing tools, and developers who need a local model API. It works offline without telemetry; web search and page fetching use the internet.