Local AI Writing, Grammar and Email Assistants

Whisper Local is a free, MIT-licensed dictation app for Windows and macOS, aimed at people who want voice typing without cloud processing. It's an alternative to Wispr Flow and Dragon that inserts speech into the active text field, including in chat apps, browsers and code editors. It doesn't require an account or API key.

AppFlowy is a workspace for documents, projects and AI. Its desktop Local AI plugin connects to Ollama for local model use. AppFlowy also offers a self-hosted server deployment with language and embedding models inside your environment, including air-gapped operation. The desktop plugin and server deployment are distinct ways to use AI.

Taskuary is a personal AI work manager for people whose requests arrive across email, chat and ticket systems. It gathers those requests into tasks and lets AI agents prepare the work for your review.

gptel is an Emacs LLM client for people who want model responses alongside their writing and code. It connects to local inference backends including Ollama, llama.cpp, Llamafile and GPT4All. The client runs in Emacs; cloud connections such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini send requests to those providers and require their credentials.

MindMac is a native macOS AI chat client for people who want local models and cloud providers in one app. Its inline mode lets you get writing help inside Notes, Mail and browsers without switching to a separate chat window.

NocoDB is a self-hosted database workspace for teams that want to manage records through a spreadsheet interface. It runs on your own server with Docker and can connect to existing PostgreSQL or MySQL databases. A hosted service is also available.

Oleafly is a desktop editor for researchers writing papers, theses and other long documents in LaTeX, Typst or Markdown. It brings the manuscript, PDF preview and research tools into one workspace, with projects stored as ordinary files you own.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

GenOffice is a Microsoft Office alternative for people who want to edit documents on their own computer and let an AI agent make changes inside the files. It works with native .docx, .xlsx and .pptx files alongside PDF, Markdown and HTML.

Open Science Desktop brings research agents, notebooks and project files into one workbench for researchers who want to inspect the work behind an AI-generated result. Agents can carry a research topic through literature review, experiments, analysis and manuscript writing.

Lexora is a personal desktop AI agent for research, creative projects and everyday planning as well as coding. It works toward a goal while you give direction and review its work.

Amical is an AI dictation app for people who want to write emails, messages and coding prompts by speaking. It adjusts the resulting text to the app you're using, reducing the editing needed after transcription.

Text Generator is an AI writing assistant for Obsidian users who want to turn material in their notes into drafts, summaries and ideas without leaving their knowledge workspace.

Inbox Zero helps people with busy inboxes sort incoming mail and prepare replies. It works alongside your existing email client and supports Gmail, Google Workspace and Microsoft Outlook.

Raycast Ollama is a desktop launcher extension for people who want to chat with models and work on text without leaving Raycast. It connects to Ollama running on your machine or a remote server you choose.

Lexicon is a writing assistant and rich-text editor for people who want to proofread and revise drafts on their own computer. Grammar checks work without an AI model, while optional local AI tools help rewrite longer passages and whole documents.

Resume AI helps job seekers write resumes for specific roles and keep them alongside their job applications. It combines resume editing with an application board, so each role can have its own saved drafts.

LocalWriter adds AI writing assistance inside LibreOffice Writer for people who want to draft and revise text within their documents. It works with selected passages and requires a separate language model runner.

Fabric organizes reusable AI prompts by task for people who want repeatable ways to analyze content, write, or work with code. Its community-contributed prompts, called Patterns, provide a starting point without requiring you to write each prompt yourself.

Superwhisper turns spoken words into text in the app you're using. It suits people who prefer dictating messages, documents or requests to coding assistants over typing them.

Obsidian Copilot is an AI plugin for writers and researchers who want to work with the notes already in their vault. Its agents can find relevant material, draft notes and organize research inside Obsidian.

Atlas Note combines a self-hosted note library with AI search and answers that cite your notes. It's for people keeping meeting records, project notes or personal reference material who want to find related information without remembering exact wording. The browser interface runs on your own Docker-hosted server, and the project is open source under the MIT license.