Private AI for Documents, Writing and Research

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.

TranslateLocally translates text on your own computer for people who want local machine translation and teams working with their own translation models. It uses Marian and Bergamot, with a desktop interface for everyday text and command-line access for batch work.

PaddleX is a low-code toolkit for developers building AI applications with PaddlePaddle models. It brings pretrained pipelines and model training into one tool for applications that process documents, images or time-series data.

Eidon AI is a self-hosted AI assistant for people who want everyday chat and agents that can carry out longer tasks on their own computer or server. A Chief of Staff agent answers directly, delegates work to specialists, or creates an agent for a task. Agents can message each other and keep working on a schedule.

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.

SwarmVault is a self-hosted knowledge base for people organizing research, notes or code documentation for themselves and AI agents. It turns collected sources into a persistent Markdown wiki with connections you can inspect.

Tesseract is an OCR engine for developers and document-processing workflows that need to extract text from images. It includes a command-line tool and an embeddable library, but doesn't include a graphical app.

PenEcho is a visual workspace for people working through ideas with handwritten notes, equations and sketches. AI uses the canvas as context and places answers or interactive results beside your work.

Speaches is a self-hosted speech server for developers building transcription services and voice applications. Its OpenAI-compatible API lets existing clients and SDKs work with speech models running on hardware you control.

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.

Stirling PDF is a PDF workspace for editing individual documents and automating larger document workflows. It runs through a browser on your own server, with Docker deployment, or as a desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux.

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.

Hiring Agent helps hiring teams rank resume PDFs to decide which applications to review first. HackerRank built it for intern applications, with human reviewers making the hiring decisions.

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.

Karakeep is a bookmark manager for people collecting articles, notes, images and PDFs for later use. It keeps saved material searchable and can preserve pages after their original links disappear.

Kition is a desktop AI workspace for writing, research, and project planning. Its agent works directly with editable project files, so you can inspect proposed changes in the documents and boards they affect.

Feeds Fun is an RSS reader for people who want to prioritize articles across their subscriptions. It assigns tags automatically and uses your scoring rules to decide which entries appear first.

HilbertRaum is a local AI workspace for people working with confidential documents, research, or personal archives. It lets you use AI without sending your files or conversations to an external service.

Surya is a local OCR toolkit for developers who need text and page structure from document images. It handles multilingual documents and preserves reading order for use in document-processing applications.

Whisper Desktop turns audio and video recordings into transcripts and subtitles on your computer. It's for people working with interviews, lectures, podcasts or videos who want a desktop interface for transcription and captioning.

AudioNotes turns audio and video into transcripts and structured Markdown notes on your computer. It's for reviewing meetings, interviews, courses and voice memos while keeping the recordings and resulting notes locally.

miel is a self-hosted Gmail client for people who want AI help sorting mail while keeping the app and its database on their own machine or server. It ranks messages by priority and proposes labels, including new ones. You review suggestions before applying changes to Gmail.

Paperless-AI is an extension for Paperless-ngx users who want to sort incoming documents automatically and ask questions about their archive. The project is no longer maintained.

Vibe-Trading is an installed Python research app with terminal and web interfaces for traders and analysts testing strategies or reviewing trades. The workspace runs on your machine, but its AI requests go to OpenRouter by default. Research also fetches external market data and web content.

Vanna is a Python framework for adding database chat to analytics applications and internal tools. The project is archived and no longer maintained.

Verba is a self-hosted document chatbot for people who want to ask questions across their files and knowledge bases. The project is archived and no longer maintained, so it won't receive bug fixes or security patches.

LlamaIndex Chat is a chatbot builder for people who want assistants that answer questions about their own documents. It's an example application built with LlamaIndexTS; you can host the app yourself, but it relies on cloud services for document indexing and AI responses.

NVIDIA RAG Blueprint is a reference framework for developers building AI question answering over enterprise data. It retrieves relevant material from your documents to ground answers and can cite the retrieved sources.

Open Deep Research is a self-hosted AI agent that searches for information and writes research reports for teams that want to choose their models and tools. The project is archived and no longer maintained.

Cognita is a self-hosted RAG framework for developers building applications that answer questions from their own documents. The project is archived and no longer maintained.

RAGs lets you create a chatbot that answers questions about a single local file or web page. It's for people who want to describe their task in plain language and review the resulting setup through a visual interface.