Private AI to Chat With PDFs and Documents

Paperwise turns PDFs, scans and records into a searchable library for people managing private documents. It answers questions across files and links its answers to the source pages so you can check the evidence.

OwnOrbit AI, formerly LifeOS AI, is an alpha self-hosted personal AI assistant for people who want help finding forgotten commitments in their own notes. It reads a Markdown folder you control and can surface deadlines, renewals, and unfinished work. The assistant runs on your computer, with a paired mobile browser app for phone access.

Enclave AI is a local AI assistant for people who want to chat, work with documents or use voice conversations on their Apple devices. Downloaded models handle these tasks offline.

Nextcloud Assistant brings AI tasks into Nextcloud Hub for teams working with shared files, email and conversations. It lets an organization choose local processing on its own server or a hosted model provider.

Aphelion is a desktop app for people who want character conversations, creative writing and coding help from models running on their own computer. It works offline after the first model download and doesn't require an account.

Eclaire is a self-hosted AI assistant for people who want to ask questions about their saved information and act on it in one place. It brings documents, notes, photos, bookmarks and tasks into a shared library.

DocNavigator is a self-hosted AI chatbot builder for teams that want customers to ask questions about their product documentation or support content. It uses information from a company's website as the basis for the chatbot, so responses can draw on that company's material.

Oriveo Community Edition is a free, open-source AI chat client for people who want local models and cloud providers in the same app, with their conversation history stored on their own device. It runs on iOS, Android and the web, and you can self-host the web client. It doesn't require an Oriveo account.

AnythingLLM is an AI assistant for people who want document chat and agents on their own hardware. Its desktop app can work with local models without an account or cloud API key.

Witsy is a desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with models, work with documents and write across applications. You can choose local models or cloud providers, with feature availability depending on the backend.

Braina combines AI chat, dictation and computer control for people who want to work through spoken or typed commands. It can run language models on your own computer and help with writing, document research and repetitive desktop tasks.

ReadAny is an AI e-book reader for people who want to question a book, find an idea they remember imperfectly and keep notes alongside their reading. It combines a personal library with answers tied to book passages.

Brave Leo is an AI assistant inside the Brave browser for people who want help with what they're reading. Bring Your Own Model support lets you use a local LLM or a remote model for browser conversations.

BoltAI is an AI workspace for Mac users who want local models and cloud services in one app for writing, coding and research. It keeps related conversations together and brings chat into other apps through an overlay.

Morphik Core is a retrieval engine for developers building AI applications around documents whose meaning depends on charts, diagrams, or page layout. It brings document search and structured extraction into one platform.

MaxKB is an AI agent platform for organizations building support bots, internal knowledge assistants and business automation. It combines answers based on company documents with workflows that can act through connected tools.

Local Deep Research is a self-hosted AI research assistant for people investigating complex questions across web sources, academic papers and their own documents. It gathers evidence and writes reports with citations.

Joplin Jarvis is an AI assistant for people who keep their research and writing in Joplin. It uses your notes as context for conversations and helps you find related material or annotate your collection.

Talkio puts several AI models in one conversation so you can compare answers or have different roles discuss the same problem. It also supports ordinary one-to-one chats.

aichat is a terminal AI assistant for people who want to discuss files, generate shell commands and use model-powered tools from the command line. It connects to Ollama, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and OpenAI-compatible API providers.

LLMStack is a self-hosted no-code builder for teams creating AI agents, chatbots and workflows around their own data and business processes. You can run it on your own infrastructure or use Promptly, its hosted cloud offering. Self-hosting runs the platform on your server; connected cloud model providers process requests outside it.

Onyx is an AI search and chat platform for teams with information scattered across workplace apps. It gives employees and AI agents answers grounded in company documents.

Ragpi is a self-hosted AI assistant API for teams that want to answer technical questions using their own project material. It lets developers add documentation-based support to a product, website or community.

Diariz is a self-hosted meeting transcription app for individuals and teams that want recordings and transcripts on their own server. It turns captured or uploaded audio into searchable meeting records.

Open WebUI is a self-hosted chat workspace for individuals and teams using local LLMs and cloud models. It can work entirely offline with local models.

LocalDocRAG is a self-hosted PDF question-answering app for people who want to search their documents with a local LLM and check answers against specific pages. It runs through Docker on macOS, Windows, Linux or a Raspberry Pi, with a browser interface accessible from phones and computers on the same network. It's open source under the MIT license.

ResearchNotebookLM is a free, self-hosted alternative to Google NotebookLM for people studying papers, collecting research or working with private documents. It runs through a browser on Windows, macOS or Linux, and can run on your own server. With Ollama, questions and answers stay local and work offline without a cloud account.

SolidGPT is an AI search assistant for developers, available as a VS Code extension or a self-hosted server with a browser interface. The application can run on your machine or server, but its AI processing uses OpenAI's cloud API. It needs an API key and an internet connection, so hosting it yourself doesn't make model inference local.

Minima lets you ask questions about your own documents, with a choice of local inference or an external model. It's a self-hosted RAG tool for people and teams who want document-based answers while controlling where indexing and AI processing happen. It runs in Docker containers and is open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

OneRAG is a self-hosted RAG framework for developers building chatbots that answer questions using their own documents. It combines document retrieval and AI answers, with replaceable components for different models and search needs.

Laya brings work notifications into one feed for people managing email, tickets, pull requests, and team messages. It gathers related context and prepares action cards with drafts you can review before sending.

OpenTutor is a local AI learning workspace for students who want to study their own course materials with a tutor that adjusts to their progress. It targets individual study rather than shared classroom use.

OpenRAG is a self-hosted platform for searching documents and asking questions about them through an AI chat interface. It brings Langflow, OpenSearch, and Docling together for developers and teams that want a document knowledge base with control over its retrieval workflows. It's open source under Apache 2.0 and supports self-managed deployment with Docker or Podman.

Capka is a self-hosted AI agent for people and teams whose work ends in a document, spreadsheet or code patch. It works with uploaded files, runs code and returns editable outputs you can revise through conversation. The app and its Linux sandboxes run on your own server.