Chatbox

An AI chat client that connects to local models through Ollama and cloud models with your API keys, available on desktop, mobile and the web.

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Chatbox is an AI chat app for people who want to use local models and cloud providers in one interface. It supports Ollama for local LLM use, plus GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek with your own API keys.

File conversations Ask questions about PDFs, Word documents, images and code snippets, or use AI to summarize and extract information from them.
Document knowledge base The desktop app stores a collection of documents locally and lets AI search them when answering questions.
Agent tasks Work Mode can use files, web search and tools to write code, build chatbots and carry out tasks autonomously; chat also supports MCP tools.
Code and visuals Generate code with live previews and create images, including through DALL-E-3, with support for rendering Mermaid diagrams, LaTeX and Markdown.
Reusable prompts Save prompts for recurring work and quote earlier messages to give follow-up questions context.

Chatbox runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, with iOS, Android and browser versions too. The Community Edition is open source under GPL-3.0. Chatbox also offers a paid hosted model service.

Chat history and desktop knowledge-base documents stay stored locally. Cloud model requests go to the selected provider or Chatbox's hosted service, and live web search uses the internet; local storage doesn't make those features offline.