Local AI Writing, Grammar and Email Assistants

Hillnote is a writing and planning workspace for people who want local files and AI help inside their editor. It keeps your work as plain Markdown on disk, readable by other editors and accessible to AI agents.

Writeopia is a text editor for writers, developers and researchers who want AI assistance with drafts and notes while keeping their work on their own computer.

Smart Second Brain is an Obsidian plugin for people who want to find and work with information across their notes. It connects search and a topic graph with an AI assistant that can use your vault as context.

gen.nvim brings LLM text generation into Neovim for developers and writers who want AI help within their editor. It can work with a selected passage or the current buffer, so you can ask about or revise the content you're editing.

Mikupad is a browser-based LLM frontend for writers and anyone who wants to edit and guide generated text. It connects to a separate model backend and keeps writing context attached to your prompts.

Pretype is a local AI writing assistant for people who want sentence suggestions across their Mac apps. It works in native apps, Electron apps and web text fields without separate plugins for each app.

gp.nvim brings AI chat and prompt-based editing into Neovim for developers and writers who want to work with their existing buffers. You can ask about selected text or code, then apply the response inside the editor.

Odysseus brings AI chat, autonomous agents and personal work into one workspace on your own hardware. It's for people who want models to work with their documents and ongoing tasks in a self-hosted app.

Vela is a desktop AI writing editor for novelists and web fiction authors who need to manage a long story's characters, settings and chapters. It brings planning, drafting and revision into one workspace.

Nextcloud Assistant brings AI tasks into Nextcloud Hub for teams working with shared files, email and conversations. It lets an organization choose local processing on its own server or a hosted model provider.

Noted is a desktop notebook for people who want connected notes and AI help while keeping their writing in ordinary Markdown files. Notes live in a folder on your machine, where other editors and backup tools can use them.

Jev Chat helps people interpret tense or ambiguous conversations and choose a reply. It estimates the other person's intent and the risk of friction before suggesting wording, though its assessments can be wrong.

Aphelion is a desktop app for people who want character conversations, creative writing and coding help from models running on their own computer. It works offline after the first model download and doesn't require an account.

Witsy is a desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with models, work with documents and write across applications. You can choose local models or cloud providers, with feature availability depending on the backend.

Brave Leo is an AI assistant inside the Brave browser for people who want help with what they're reading. Bring Your Own Model support lets you use a local LLM or a remote model for browser conversations.

BoltAI is an AI workspace for Mac users who want local models and cloud services in one app for writing, coding and research. It keeps related conversations together and brings chat into other apps through an overlay.

Joplin Jarvis is an AI assistant for people who keep their research and writing in Joplin. It uses your notes as context for conversations and helps you find related material or annotate your collection.

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.

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.

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.