Chat with PDFs and Notes Using Local AI

Vellium is a desktop AI app for writers and people who want conversations with fictional characters. It combines multi-character roleplay with writing projects and lets you choose the model provider.

localGPT is a self-hosted document chat app for people who want to ask questions about files and summarise them on their own hardware. Its local processing keeps document content and chat data on the machine running the app.

Vyact is a desktop workspace for people who want a local LLM to help with files, writing and code. It brings conversations and searchable documents together, with optional connections to email services and Chrome.

PapersGPT is an AI research assistant inside Zotero for researchers working through a paper library. It helps answer questions across saved research and turn findings into notes with citations back to the papers.

Reins is a chat app for people using self-hosted LLMs through Ollama. It gives you a mobile and desktop interface for comparing models and keeping different instructions for different conversations.

haiku.rag lets you search your own documents and ask questions with answers you can check against the original pages. It's for people building a private document library or giving an AI assistant access to their files.

LM Studio runs downloaded language models for conversations and tasks on your computer. Its Bionic agent helps people create documents, write software and carry out work using local or frontier open models.

RAG Web UI is a self-hosted app for asking questions about your own documents. It's a learning project, and its maintainers advise against commercial use and state that it isn't ready for production.

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.

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.

Bionic GPT is a self-hosted AI agent platform for internal teams building workflows around company knowledge and business systems. It supports tasks that involve several steps, tools and files while retaining context across the work.

Khoj is a personal AI assistant for people who want answers from their files and the web. It also supports custom agents and recurring research tasks.

Personal LLM runs AI chat on your phone for people who want to ask questions without sending them to a cloud model. Chat, photo analysis and document questions work offline after you download a model and any required image support files.

AI Notebook is a desktop research notebook for asking questions about your own documents and checking the passages behind the answers. It suits people who want a local NotebookLM alternative with their research and notes in one workspace.

GPT4All is a local AI chatbot for people who want language models and document conversations on their own computer. Model inference and LocalDocs processing run on the device without a cloud connection.

Obsidian Local GPT is an AI writing assistant for people who keep their notes in Obsidian. It helps you work with selected text and related notes, using local models or a remote AI service.

RecurseChat is a Mac app for people who want private AI conversations and answers drawn from their own documents. Local models run without an internet connection or a separate server.

Noema is a local AI assistant for people who want to chat with models and get answers from their files on Apple devices. It brings models, documents and tools into a native workspace on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro.

NoteGen is an AI note-taking app for collecting research, meeting material and ideas before organizing them into finished documents. Notes remain ordinary Markdown files, with attachments stored on your device by default.

CloverPal is an Android app for private AI conversations and character roleplay on your phone. It runs models on-device, so you can chat offline once you've downloaded or imported a model.

5ire is a desktop AI assistant for people who want to chat with models, ask questions about their documents and use external tools in the same app. It connects to local LLMs through Ollama and to cloud providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and DeepSeek.

Private Mind is a mobile AI assistant for people who want to chat and read documents without sending their content to a cloud service. It runs AI and document processing on your phone.

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.

LibreChat is a self-hosted ChatGPT alternative for people and teams who want to use different AI providers in one chat workspace. It lets you switch models while keeping conversations in the same interface.

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.

Off Grid AI is a local AI app for people who want chat, document analysis and media tools on their own phone or computer. Downloaded models work offline, and the core app doesn't require an account.

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.

RAGFlow helps teams build AI agents that answer questions using their own documents. It extracts content from complex files and retrieves supporting material that readers can check.

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.

Msty is a family of AI products for individuals, teams and organizations working with models and their own knowledge. Msty Studio is its workspace product, with separate products for agents and centralized model access.

Enclave AI is a local AI assistant for people who want to chat, work with documents or use voice conversations on their Apple devices. Downloaded models handle these tasks offline.

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.

Eclaire is a self-hosted AI assistant for people who want to ask questions about their saved information and act on it in one place. It brings documents, notes, photos, bookmarks and tasks into a shared library.

AnythingLLM is an AI assistant for people who want document chat and agents on their own hardware. Its desktop app can work with local models without an account or cloud API key.