Private AI for Documents, Writing and Research

Humanizer Stack is a pair of Claude Code skills for writers and editors revising public-facing AI drafts. It checks sentence-level habits and the shape of a piece, rather than limiting edits to word substitutions.

Phorminx turns speech into text in Windows apps and keeps a searchable record of meetings. It's for people who want dictation, translated transcripts and answers about a call without sending the conversation to a cloud AI service.

DocsGPT helps teams search company documents and build AI assistants that answer from those materials. It can run inside your network with local models, including an air-gapped deployment where documents and questions stay within that network.

SlopMonster checks English drafts for wording and sentence patterns often associated with AI writing. It's for writers and developers reviewing copy for READMEs, landing pages, emails or scripts.

doc.haus is a self-hosted legal AI agent for lawyers and firms reviewing or drafting contracts. It's a fork of OpenCode that edits Word documents through actual tracked changes, so reviewers can accept or reject each edit in Word.

PapersGPT is an AI research assistant inside Zotero for researchers working through a paper library. It helps answer questions across saved research and turn findings into notes with citations back to the papers.

Unstract is a self-hosted, no-code platform for teams that need structured data from documents whose layouts vary. It uses LLMs to extract JSON from PDFs, images, scans and office files without building a template for each vendor or form. Its use cases include finance, insurance, healthcare and KYC document processing.

next-wiki is a self-hosted wiki for people and teams who want AI-assisted knowledge management with a record of where information came from. It keeps original sources separate from AI-written material and reviewed pages, so an assistant's synthesis remains traceable to its evidence. It's open source under Apache 2.0 and runs as a browser app on your own Docker host with PostgreSQL.

Hermes Notes is a self-hosted personal knowledge base for people who want their notes and project work in one connected system. It runs on your laptop or a server you control, with a browser interface and PostgreSQL storage. It's open source under the MIT license and built for personal use or a trusted small group, rather than a public service for unrelated users.

Guaardvark is a local AI studio for people who want document chat, task automation and media production on their own hardware. It brings those jobs into one interface and coordinates their use of the GPU.

PyGPT is a desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with models, work with their documents and delegate tasks from one application. It supports local AI through Ollama alongside cloud providers.

Nougat is a local AI PDF parser for researchers and developers who need to extract content from academic papers. It handles LaTeX math and tables alongside the paper's text.

haiku.rag lets you search your own documents and ask questions with answers you can check against the original pages. It's for people building a private document library or giving an AI assistant access to their files.

Link gives AI agents persistent memory so you don't have to repeat preferences, project decisions and context in every session. Multiple agents can read the same local Markdown files, which you can inspect in an editor or Obsidian.

WritHer is a voice dictation app for people who want to write in Windows desktop apps and manage everyday tasks by speaking. It works offline after the initial model downloads, without an account.

AIdea for Zotero is an AI assistant for researchers who want to ask questions about papers and translate reading material inside Zotero. Its side panel works in the library view and the PDF or EPUB reader.

Transcribe Offline turns recordings and live speech into text for people who need to review conversations without uploading audio to a cloud service. It pairs transcript editing with audio playback in a desktop app.

Sidekick is a native macOS app for people who want AI answers grounded in their documents and research materials. Its built-in llama.cpp engine runs GGUF models such as Qwen3.5 without a separate model runner.

Libre WebUI is a self-hosted AI workspace for individuals and teams who want chat, document research and AI agent tasks on infrastructure they control. You can use local models or connect a remote provider of your choice.

Cognee gives AI agents memory across sessions so they can reuse project context, decisions, and lessons from earlier work. It's for developers building agents and teams whose knowledge sits across documents, code, and conversations.

SQL Chat is a SQL client for people who want to work with databases using natural language. Its chat interface lets you ask for data and request database changes without writing every SQL statement yourself.

Revornix is an AI knowledge workspace for people who collect articles, research papers and recordings and want to ask questions across their library. It connects saved material in a personal knowledge graph and uses those relationships to inform its answers.

Nexent is a self-hosted AI agent platform for people and teams who want to build agents by describing tasks in plain language. It generates executable agents without requiring code or a visual workflow editor.

SapienAI is an academic chatbot and research workspace for researchers who want to keep source material, writing and AI conversations together. Research spaces group project documents, notes and drafts so the AI can answer questions using uploaded material.

RAG Web UI is a self-hosted app for asking questions about your own documents. It's a learning project, and its maintainers advise against commercial use and state that it isn't ready for production.

LightRAG is a self-hosted framework for developers building AI assistants that answer questions across documents. It connects related facts across files, including material where relationships matter, such as legal and financial records.

Memo AI turns audio and video into transcripts, translated subtitles and notes for people reviewing interviews, meetings or podcasts. Speech recognition works offline, and speaker identification runs locally.

Priv AI is an on-device assistant for people who want to chat with AI and use it to examine personal health and financial information. It works offline after a model download and doesn't require an app account.

PandaWiki is a self-hosted knowledge base for teams publishing product guides, technical documentation, FAQs, or blogs. It gives readers AI-assisted ways to find answers within those documents.

OpenMAIC is a self-hosted AI classroom platform for learners and educators building lessons from a topic or their own materials. AI teachers and classmates explain concepts and discuss questions during the lesson.

Phantasm is an iPhone AI chat app for people who want to use models running on their own machines. The phone provides the chat interface, while a backend you control handles inference.

FlyMD is a Markdown editor for people who keep notes, write long documents or publish blogs. It stores documents locally and adds writing assistance and document tools through extensions.

Sokuji translates speech for people taking part in meetings across languages. Other participants hear your translated voice as ordinary call audio, so they don't need to install anything.

parrot.nvim is an AI coding and text editing assistant for Neovim users who want to request changes and chat without leaving their editor. It builds on an early fork of gp.nvim and lets you choose what context goes to the model.