Local and Self-Hosted Personal AI Assistants

OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI assistant that connects your own computer to the messaging services you already use. It's for people who want a personal assistant on their laptop, or teams that want to run a shared assistant on their own hardware. The project is open source under the MIT license.

Home Assistant Assist is a voice assistant for people who want to control their smart home through natural language while keeping voice processing on their own hardware. It's built into Home Assistant, which runs on a Raspberry Pi or a local server and is open source under Apache 2.0.

AnythingLLM is an open source AI assistant for people who want to chat with their documents and use AI agents on their own hardware. The desktop app runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, while a Docker deployment supports multiple users on a self-hosted server. No account is required for the desktop app.

Hermes Agent is a self-hosted AI agent from Nous Research for people who want an assistant that remembers past work and develops reusable skills. It creates skills after complex tasks, revises them through use, and searches earlier conversations to recover context across sessions. The project is open source under the MIT license.

Enconvo is a native AI assistant and agent for Mac that can use your screen and selected text as context, then work inside your apps. It's for people who want help with writing, research and everyday tasks alongside the app they're using. A sidebar keeps the agent beside the current app, while text selection tools give quick access to editing and translation.

Nextcloud Assistant brings AI into Nextcloud Hub's documents, email, chat and calendar. It's for teams that want help with shared work while choosing where AI processing happens. With an on-premises model, data stays on your server. The app is open source under AGPL-3.0.

Khoj is an AI assistant for people who want to ask questions across their own files, research the web, and give recurring work to agents. You can self-host it on your computer or server, or use Khoj's cloud app. It's open source under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license.

Vyact is an open source desktop workspace for people who want to use a local LLM with their documents, email and code. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs, Windows and Linux x64 under the AGPL-3.0 license. Intel Macs aren't supported.

Eclaire is a self-hosted AI assistant for notes, documents, photos, bookmarks and tasks. You can ask questions about saved material, inspect the sources behind an answer and ask the assistant to create notes or update tasks. Scheduled automations handle recurring requests such as a weekly task summary.

PocketPaw is a self-hosted AI agent for people who want a personal assistant that can work with files, write code and use a browser on their own computer or server. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a web dashboard and access through messaging apps. It is open source under the MIT license.