Private AI for Documents, Writing and Research

Trilium Notes is a note-taking app for people building large personal knowledge bases. Its tree structure lets one note appear in multiple branches, so you can organize related material without keeping separate copies.

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.

Hope Agent is a desktop AI assistant that can also run without a desktop interface on a NAS or cloud server. It's for people who want ongoing project work, memory and task state to carry across sessions and devices. It supports local model setup. Data stays on the hosting machine by default, while requests to remote models go directly to the selected provider.

Top2Vec is an open-source Python library for researchers and developers who want to discover themes in text collections and search documents by meaning. It determines the number of topics automatically and connects topics, documents and words through a shared embedding space. The license is BSD-3-Clause.

OpenScribe is an AI medical scribe for clinicians who want to turn recorded patient encounters into structured draft notes. Its desktop workflow builds on StenoAI and keeps transcription and note generation local. It's not HIPAA compliant, and every generated note requires clinical review.

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.

PDFMathTranslate translates scientific papers for readers who need the text in another language while keeping equations and figures in context. It produces translated and bilingual PDFs so readers can compare the result with the original.

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.

Whisper ASR Webservice gives developers a speech-to-text API for their own applications and services. It processes audio on your machine or server and supports multilingual transcription, speech translation and language identification.

Postgres MCP Pro gives AI assistants access to PostgreSQL databases and tools for investigating performance problems. It's for developers and database maintainers who want an assistant to work with actual schema details and query plans.

QOwnNotes is a desktop notepad and todo manager for people who want to keep their notes in ordinary Markdown files on their own computer. It can use existing text files directly, so your notes remain accessible outside the app.

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.

Paperless-ngx is a document management system for people who want a searchable archive of their scanned paperwork. It helps keep records such as invoices and tax documents available without searching through paper folders.

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.

PrivateGPT is a self-hosted API layer for developers building applications around local models. It requires a separate inference server, such as Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM or LocalAI; it doesn't run models itself.

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.

insanely-fast-whisper is a command-line audio transcription tool for people who want to process recordings on their own hardware. It focuses on reducing transcription time through GPU acceleration.

Pieces builds a searchable history of your work across apps for people who need to recover earlier decisions, find research or pick up an interrupted task. It runs in the background on your computer.

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.

SuperClaude is a configuration framework for developers who want predefined workflows in Claude Code. It adds task-specific commands and specialist agents for planning software, writing code and reviewing the results.

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.

Interpreter translates Japanese game text into English subtitles over the game window. It's aimed at retro-game players, with MeikiOCR tuned for Japanese game text and pixel fonts. The default MeikiOCR and Sugoi V4 models run locally without internet access after setup.

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.

arxiv-mcp-server gives AI assistants tools to find and study arXiv papers. It's for researchers who want an assistant to inspect specific sections and work with a locally stored paper library.

SpeechPulse is a dictation and transcription app for people who want to write by voice or turn recordings into text. Its Whisper speech recognition runs locally, so dictation can work without an internet connection.