Local ChatGPT and Claude Alternatives

Pocket AI Lab runs AI models on an iPhone and helps you judge which ones the phone can handle. It's for people who want private chat on their device and want to check memory and storage before downloading model weights.

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.

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.

Layla is an AI assistant for people who want private chat, a personal companion or character roleplay on their phone. It runs local models on Android and iOS, so you can keep using it offline after downloading a model.

Fullmoon is a local LLM chat app for people who want conversations to stay on their Apple devices. It runs models on-device and works fully offline, with chat history saved locally.

Kelivo is an LLM chat client for people who want local and cloud models in one app while keeping conversation history on their device. It connects to Ollama, self-hosted OpenAI-compatible services and providers including OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and OpenRouter.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Liquid Apollo is a local AI playground for people who want to interact with AI without relying on cloud processing. It focuses on low-latency interaction.

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.

Jan is a desktop AI chat app for people who want to run models on their own computer while retaining the option to use cloud providers. Local model use works offline; choosing a hosted model sends requests to that provider.

Google AI Edge Gallery is a local AI app for people who want to use and compare generative models on their own devices. Model inference runs on-device, including offline chat and media tasks.

Sidekick is a native macOS app for people who want AI answers grounded in their documents and research materials. Its built-in llama.cpp engine runs GGUF models such as Qwen3.5 without a separate model runner.

Fluid is a local AI assistant for Mac users who want to ask questions without sending their chats to a hosted model. It runs Meta Llama 3 on your Mac and supports offline conversations.

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.

kotaemon is an open source document chat app for people who want to ask questions across their files and inspect the evidence behind an answer. Developers can also use it to build custom document question-answering applications.

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.

PrivateGPT is a self-hosted API layer for developers building applications around local models. It requires a separate inference server, such as Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM or LocalAI; it doesn't run models itself.

Osaurus runs AI agents on your Mac for tasks such as reviewing documents, organizing files, and writing code. It keeps agent memory on your computer, so you can change models without losing the context of your work.

Enchanted is a ChatGPT alternative for people who want an Apple app for chatting with models they host themselves. It requires your own Ollama server, which runs the models on your computer or a server you control.

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.