Private AI for Documents, Writing and Research

Transcritório is a desktop app for researchers transcribing interviews and focus groups, with a focus on Brazilian Portuguese. It keeps audio, transcripts and metadata on your computer.

SoniTranslate is an AI video dubbing app for people translating spoken videos into other languages. It can run locally, with a Gradio interface in the browser.

OpenResearch is an MIT-licensed, open-source workspace for people using AI coding agents to conduct research. It gives each research direction a separate agent session and isolated Git worktree, so experiments can proceed in parallel without sharing the same working files. Desktop builds support macOS and Linux; the Windows beta requires Git for Windows. A local browser dashboard is also available.

SmartSub helps video creators subtitle recordings and dub them into other languages. You can use its transcription, translation, proofreading, dubbing and export tools separately or combine them for batch processing.

DeepSeek-OCR is an OCR model for developers processing document images and PDFs on their own hardware. It also supports research into visual text compression, representing text-bearing images with compact sets of vision tokens.

Row-Bot is a local AI assistant for people who want to research, create documents and automate work on their own computer. It combines conversations with memory and agents that can continue working on longer tasks.

MemFree is an open-source AI search tool that answers questions using both your own knowledge base and the internet. It's for people who want to search saved documents, bookmarks and web content together, with AI summaries instead of reading each result separately. You can self-host it or use the hosted website.

ESPnet is a speech AI toolkit for researchers and developers who want to run pretrained models on their own hardware or train speech systems. Its recipes cover data preparation through evaluation, with published results for comparison.

OCRmyPDF makes scanned PDFs searchable and lets readers copy recognized text from them. It's a command-line tool for people digitizing paper records and developers adding OCR to document workflows.

Instrukt is a terminal app for developers who want to build and test AI agents on their own machine or server. It can index local code and documents, but its chat models run through OpenAI's API, which requires an API key and internet access. It doesn't provide local chat inference.

AI File Sorter helps people clear crowded Downloads folders, photo collections and stored archives. It proposes folders and filenames for you to review before it moves or renames files.

Arkitekt OpenCRM is a free, self-hosted CRM for small businesses that want lead management and email outreach on their own server. It runs in Docker with a browser dashboard and stores lead records in SQLite on the host. AI email writing is optional and can use local models through Ollama or cloud services such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

ChatGPTBox is a browser extension for people who want AI help while reading pages or searching the web. It connects to self-hosted models or services such as ChatGPT, Claude, Moonshot and Azure.

XERJ is a local search engine for developers building AI agents that need to retrieve code, documents or stored knowledge without reading whole files into their context. It runs on a laptop or self-hosted server.

AIPOCH Open-Science is a desktop AI research workbench for scientists who want to keep investigations, analysis and supporting evidence in one project. Its agents work with research files and executable tools to produce outputs you can inspect alongside the records behind them.

AI-Researcher automates research tasks for researchers who want to develop an idea into code, experiments and an academic manuscript. It can start with a detailed proposal or use reference papers to suggest a research direction.

UltraRAG is a self-hosted framework for researchers and developers building AI systems that answer questions using their own documents. Its Python application and Docker deployment provide a browser workspace for knowledge bases, workflow design and evaluation. Generation can use local models through vLLM or Hugging Face. Embeddings can use local Sentence Transformers or a configured OpenAI service; the OpenAI cloud connection sends embedding inputs to that service.

Jenny is a personal AI agent for Android that remembers context across conversations and handles tasks while the screen is off. It's for people who want a persistent assistant on their main phone or a spare Android device.

FluidVoice turns speech into text in Mac apps, including email, documents, chat, terminals and code editors. It suits people who want local dictation with optional editing before text reaches the active app.

Note Companion is an AI plugin for Obsidian users who need to sort collected notes and turn recordings into searchable material. It suits researchers, students and people with a backlog of meeting notes.

pyVideoTrans translates spoken video into another language for people preparing subtitles and dubbed versions. It works from the audio, so footage doesn't need existing subtitles.

ARIA turns audio playing on a Windows PC into live subtitles for videos, games, browser playback and calls. It's for people who need captions across apps or want translations alongside the original speech.

docTR reads text from PDFs and images for developers building document processing applications and researchers comparing OCR models. It locates individual words and recognizes their text on your own hardware.

Understory gives AI agents persistent knowledge across sessions in Markdown files you can read, edit, and track in Git. It's for people who want their agents' memory accessible outside a chat history.

Cherry Studio is a desktop AI chat app for people who use several model providers and want one place to manage their conversations. It supports local model connections as well as cloud services.

Inno Agent is a personal AI learning agent for ongoing tutoring and study. It keeps learning goals, misconceptions and study materials available across conversations, with records you can inspect and correct.

Lingarr translates subtitle files into a chosen language for people maintaining a media library. It automates translation and lets you choose between local backends and hosted services.

ResumeForge is a Chinese-first workspace for job seekers who want to keep resumes, vacancies and interview preparation together on their own computer. It separates confirmed experience from AI-written wording to help catch invented claims.

Mattermost Agents adds AI assistants to a Mattermost workspace for teams working through long discussions and meeting recordings. Teams can use models on their own infrastructure or connect to a cloud provider.

AutoFlow is a conversational knowledge base for teams that want visitors to ask questions about their product or documentation. It uses Graph RAG, which combines knowledge graphs with retrieval of relevant content for AI answers.

Polywise is a self-hosted system for people who want AI agents to work with saved research, notes, and project context. It keeps that material available across conversations so you don't have to explain the same work each time.

AstrBot is an AI chatbot platform for personal assistants, customer support bots and team automation inside messaging apps. You can host it on your own computer or server and choose a local or cloud model backend.

data-to-paper is an open-source Python framework for researchers who want AI agents to work through a dataset and draft a scientific paper whose numerical claims they can check. Its defining feature is traceability: readers can click a value in the manuscript and follow it back to the specific analysis code that produced it.

NoteDiscovery is a note-taking app for personal wikis, technical notes and small teams that want to keep their knowledge base on their own computer or server. It stores notes as ordinary Markdown files, so you can bring in an Obsidian vault or use the same files in other editors.