Private AI for Documents, Writing and Research

LocalVocal turns speech into live captions inside OBS for streamers and people recording video. It processes speech on your computer, so transcription can work offline without sending audio to a cloud service.

JARVIS RD Assistant is an open source, self-hosted workspace for researchers who want to search scientific literature and trace AI-generated answers back to papers. It runs on your own hardware with Ollama and connects literature review with PDF annotation, learning cards and research projects. It uses the Apache 2.0 license.

GPTLocalhost connects Microsoft Word with language models for people who want to use AI while working in Word. You can choose a local model or a cloud model.

ZettaBrain RAG is a self-hosted document assistant for individuals and small teams working with policies, contracts and internal manuals. It helps them find answers and draft documents from files they already keep on their own infrastructure.

Hermes Browser Extension puts an existing Hermes Agent in a browser side panel for people who want to ask about the pages they're reading. Page context works through local or remote API connections; Hermes Cloud and dashboard-ticket connections are chat-only.

AI Copywriter is a portable agent skill for people writing marketing copy and product interface text. It builds on blader's Humanizer, pairing copywriting guidance with rules for removing formulaic AI phrasing.

Dolphin Document Parser converts PDFs and document images into structured content for developers working on document extraction. It handles digitally created and photographed pages, including documents that mix text with tables, formulas, and code.

AFFiNE is a local-first knowledge workspace for individuals and teams who want documents, visual plans and databases together. It keeps workspace data on your disk and supports self-hosted servers through Docker. Optional AI features assist with writing and visual work alongside the local workspace. Optional AI in self-hosted workspaces requires your own provider keys; cloud provider requests go to that service.

NativeMind is a local ChatGPT alternative for people who want AI help with reading and writing inside their browser. It processes prompts and page content on your device using local models.

Atomic Agent is a local AI agent for people who want an assistant to work with their browser, files and code on their own hardware. Its model and task loop can run offline, while sessions and memory stay on disk. It's free and open source under the MIT license.

MDFlux is a desktop app for turning documents into structured Markdown for AI workflows, research, or text editing. It suits people who need usable text from mixed files and scanned archives while keeping conversion on their own machine.

WhisperSubTranslate is a free desktop app for creating translated SRT subtitles from video speech. It's for people who want to subtitle videos on their own computer, with offline transcription and translation after downloading the models.

Docspell is a self-hosted document organizer for households and small organizations that need to find files collected from scanners, email and other sources. It uses extracted text to help reduce manual labeling.

KeyBERT is a Python library that extracts keywords and phrases by comparing their meaning with the document they come from. It's for developers and researchers who want to add keyword extraction to text processing projects without training a model from scratch. The library is open source under the MIT license.

Surf is an AI notebook for people researching across webpages, videos and documents. It brings source material and writing into one workspace so you can ask questions about what you've collected while taking notes.

Chat2DB Community is a free local database client for developers, database administrators and analysts who want AI assistance beside their SQL editor. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, or in Docker with browser access. You connect your own AI model; where AI requests go depends on that connection, so the local app alone doesn't guarantee local inference.

ScribeDog is a Markdown editor for writers and note-takers who want AI help with documents they keep in their own folders. It shows formatted content while saving plain Markdown files that other editors can open.

wigolo gives AI agents web access from a server on your own machine. It's for developers who want coding assistants or self-hosted agents to gather web evidence and reuse what they've already fetched.

ThunderAI is an AI email assistant for Thunderbird users who want help writing messages and managing their inbox. You can process email text with a local model or send it to a cloud provider.

TranscriptionSuite is a speech-to-text app for people recording lectures, transcribing conversations or dictating documents on their own hardware. Transcription works offline after the app and model downloads, keeping audio and transcripts local.

WeKnora is a self-hosted AI knowledge platform for teams that want to query documents, carry out tasks using them and organize them into a wiki. These functions share the same knowledge bases.

Kady is an AI research assistant for scientists who want to turn plain-language requests into analyses, literature reviews and research outputs. It works in a desktop workspace where you can inspect its code and files, redirect ongoing work or stop a run.

PersonalClaw is a self-hosted AI agent for one person who wants chat, ongoing tasks and personal knowledge in one web dashboard. It runs on Linux and macOS, with Docker support that also covers Windows. It's open source under MIT and is currently pre-1.0, with breaking changes expected. A one-time download supplies a tiny CPU model for offline chat without tools. Autonomous tool work needs your own Ollama model or a provider app.

Florence-2 is Microsoft's vision model for developers building applications that describe images, extract text or locate objects on their own hardware. One model handles several image tasks selected through text prompts.

Open Notebook is an alternative to Google's NotebookLM for researchers, students and professionals working with their own materials. It brings research and notes together while letting you choose what context an AI model can access.

ONLYOFFICE Docs is a self-hosted office suite for teams that want browser-based document editing and AI assistance on their own servers. It handles Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats (.docx, .xlsx and .pptx), alongside PDFs and fillable forms. The free community edition is open source under AGPL-3.0 and runs through Docker or on Linux and Windows servers.

Whisper Mate is a local-first transcription app for people who need text from recordings, calls or audio playing on their Mac. It brings transcription and subtitle work into one editor, with media processing that can stay on the Mac.

Tessera is a self-hosted literature review workspace for researchers who want to find papers, keep reading notes and compare findings in one browser interface.

Ellama is an AI assistant for Emacs users who want help with writing and code inside their editor. It handles requests about selected text as well as longer conversations and coding tasks that need several steps.

Smart Connections helps writers and researchers find earlier work related to their current Obsidian note. It surfaces relevant material without requiring a search query or links you've already made.

SoloMD is a Markdown editor for writers, researchers and developers who want plain text notes with AI assistance. It combines a Typora-style writing interface with tools for searching a note collection and letting agents work on it.

PipesHub connects company knowledge to AI search and agents for teams whose files and conversations sit across business apps. It can also supply that context to coding assistants and custom applications.

Lumina Note is a Markdown note-taking app for people who want AI help with writing and organizing a note collection. Its agent can work across the vault with your permission, while notes remain plain files you can edit and back up outside the app.

LLPlayer is a media player for language learners who study through video and audio. It pairs playback with tools for reading dialogue, checking unfamiliar words and revisiting scenes.