Local AI Apps and Tools for Linux

OpenChatCut is a local-first AI video editor for creators who want conversational editing with control over the finished cut. AI changes become editable clips, captions, effects and audio tracks in the same project you can adjust manually. It's a free, open-source ChatCut alternative under AGPL-3.0, with a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux.

Handy is a free, MIT-licensed speech-to-text app for people who want to dictate wherever they type on a computer. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Transcription happens locally, so your voice stays on your machine and the app can work offline.

Reef is self-hosted infrastructure for developers who want AI agents to improve through feedback on actual interactions. It connects inference and learning with versioned deployment, so an agent can update its model weights or its prompts, rules, and skills while continuing to serve requests. It's open source under Apache 2.0.

Phone Harness connects an AI agent to a real iPhone or Android so it can use apps through their screens. It's for developers who want Claude Code, Codex, or another agent to carry out phone tasks without a dedicated app API. The software is open source under the MIT license, and it doesn't require a jailbreak or an app installed on the phone.

Meetily is a local AI meeting assistant for people who want meeting notes while keeping recordings on their own device. It captures calls from Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other meeting software without placing a bot in the meeting. You can watch the transcript appear during the call, then generate a summary.

ripwire helps AI coding agents find relevant code and assess changes without filling their context with whole files. It runs offline on your machine as a self-contained binary, with a CLI and an optional MCP server. It's for developers who want their agents to spend less context on repository research and check the effects of their edits.

Tel-Agent is a self-hosted AI receptionist for businesses that want phone calls and customer messages handled in one place. It runs on your own hardware and keeps recordings and searchable transcripts on your machine. It's free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 license.

deja-vu gives coding assistants a shared memory of work already recorded on your machine. It searches sessions from before you installed it, so developers can recover an old fix or carry context between Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor and opencode without starting a separate collection of notes.

Wan2GP brings video, image, music and speech generation to your own computer, with particular attention to GPUs with limited memory. It's for creators who want several media models in one browser interface. The project builds on Wan-Video/Wan2.1.

SurfSense is an open-source NotebookLM alternative that turns documents into cited answers and editable deliverables on your computer. It's a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, aimed at people working with confidential files, research or study material. You don't need an account.

agentacct is a local dashboard for developers who want to review what their coding agents did across projects and compare usage with recorded results. It brings task activity, file changes and test outcomes together with token counts and estimated costs. Claude Code and Codex have the fullest task records; it also supports OpenCode, Kimi Code and Hermes, with coverage varying by capability.

exo is a local LLM runner that combines your devices into a cluster, letting you use models too large for one machine's memory. It's for people who want to run large models on their own hardware and developers connecting existing AI clients to local inference. It runs on macOS and Linux under the Apache 2.0 license.

Jan gives people a ChatGPT-style chat interface for AI models running on their own computer. It's free and available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Local chats work offline, with the model and conversation kept on your machine. You can also use cloud models when you want access to a hosted provider.

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.

Ente Photos is a Google Photos alternative for people who want encrypted photo backups and AI search without giving a storage provider access to their library. You can use its hosted service or self-host the server. Face detection, grouping and natural-language search run on your device; the hosted service stores your encrypted backups.

OpenCode is a free, MIT-licensed AI coding agent for developers working in a terminal, IDE, or desktop app. The desktop app runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux, with support for both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. It can use local models, giving developers a way to run the model on their own hardware.

LightRAG combines knowledge graphs with vector search to answer questions across a document collection. It's a self-hosted Python framework for developers building document assistants, particularly where answers depend on relationships between facts in different files, such as legal or financial material.

SD.Next is a self-hosted web interface for artists, researchers and people who want to generate and edit images or videos on their own hardware. It builds on Automatic1111 WebUI's original codebase and supports Stable Diffusion alongside other diffusion models. It's open source under Apache 2.0.

Crush is a terminal AI coding assistant for developers who want to work with their code and tools through a model they choose. The app runs on your machine, while model requests go to your selected local backend or cloud provider. It supports macOS, Linux, Windows (PowerShell and WSL), Android, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD.

RAGFlow is an Apache 2.0 licensed RAG engine for teams building AI agents that need to answer questions from their own documents. It can run on a self-hosted server through Docker on Windows, macOS or Linux. A separate hosted cloud service is available.

LM Studio is a desktop application for downloading and running language models on macOS, Windows and Linux. You can search for models, manage downloads and chat with them through the app. Downloaded models can run offline, including document chat that uses files on your computer.

Chatterbox is an MIT-licensed text-to-speech model family for developers and creators who want to generate speech on their own hardware. You can self-host it on a GPU, including in an air-gapped environment, without an account or API key. Resemble AI also offers separate managed hosting.

Cua gives AI agents access to computers they can inspect and operate, with tools for desktop automation, local virtual machines, and hosted fleets. It's for developers building agents that work across native apps and browsers, or evaluating how well those agents complete computer tasks. You bring the agent and model.

ComfyUI is a local visual AI workspace for artists and technical teams who want to control how images, video, audio, 3D models and text are made. Its node canvas shows each model and processing step, so users can build and adjust workflows without writing code. It runs on your hardware.

IndexTTS, currently IndexTTS-2.5, is a local text-to-speech system that can reproduce a speaker's voice using one reference recording. It's for people creating spoken audio and developers building speech generation into their own applications. Voice identity and emotion have separate controls, so an emotional reference can shape the delivery while a different recording supplies the voice.

Codex CLI is an open source coding assistant that runs on your computer and works with local repositories. It's for developers who want to explore code, make changes, and use their existing development tools from the terminal. It runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux under the Apache 2.0 license.

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.

MLX is a machine learning array framework for researchers and developers building models on their own hardware. Its distinctive feature on Apple silicon is shared CPU and GPU memory: both processors can work on the same arrays without copying data between them. It's open source under the MIT license.

Cherry Studio is a free, open source desktop app for people who use several AI models and want their conversations in one place. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Chats, settings and knowledge base files are stored on your device.

InvokeAI is a free, open-source image generator for artists and production teams who want to create and edit images on their own hardware. Its locally hosted web interface brings image generation, canvas editing and workflow tools into one application. With local models, prompts and artwork stay on the machine you control.

SiYuan is a local-first, self-hosted knowledge workspace for people who want linked notes, research material and AI writing tools in one place. Its block references let you connect individual passages rather than whole documents, with bidirectional links to follow those connections. It's open source under AGPL-3.0.

whisper.cpp runs OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition models on your own hardware, with fully offline transcription once you've downloaded a model. It's for developers building speech-to-text into applications and people who want to transcribe audio locally. Audio can stay on-device rather than going to a cloud transcription service. The project is open source under the MIT license.

Docling is an MIT-licensed, open source document parser for developers turning files into structured content for search and AI applications. It runs locally on macOS, Linux, and Windows, including in air-gapped environments. Its PDF processing identifies page layout and reading order, extracts tables, code, and formulas, and classifies images.

Screenpipe records screen activity and audio as searchable local history that AI agents can use as context. It's for people who want to recall past work and teams that want agents to draft follow-ups or update work records using what actually happened. Raw history stays on your device by default.