Local AI Apps and Tools for Linux

Orbi is a self-hosted AI coding agent for developers and teams who want GitHub backlog tasks carried through to reviewed pull requests and tagged releases. It runs on Linux or macOS, on your own computer or server. The macOS launchd scheduler is documented but has not yet been verified on real hardware. The open source core is free under AGPL-3.0.

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.

LobeHub is an AI agent workspace for individuals and teams assigning ongoing work to multiple assistants. It keeps agents, their tasks and shared material together, with hosted and self-hosted options.

Lemon AI is a local AI agent for people who want to research topics, write code and analyze data on their own hardware. It also lets you revise generated HTML reports and pages without asking the agent to recreate the whole result.

Text Embeddings Inference is a self-hosted server for developers building semantic search and retrieval applications. It turns text into embeddings through a REST API and can run offline once model weights are downloaded.

Code Cortex MCP is a local MCP server that helps AI coding agents understand how a codebase fits together. It indexes functions, classes, call paths and service connections, so agents can answer relationship questions without repeatedly searching individual files. It builds on codebase-memory-mcp.

Agents Studio manages Claude Code work on your repositories for developers who want tasks to run while they're away. It brings unattended runs and the tools to review and finish their changes into one interface.

FramePack is a desktop app for creating AI video from a still image and a written motion prompt. It's for people who want to animate images on their own hardware and inspect the clip while generation is still running.

Musubi Tuner provides training scripts for people who want to adapt image and video generation models with their own datasets. It's aimed at users comfortable with a script-based workflow.

Prismos AI is a desktop assistant for people working with private documents and technical files. It uses local Ollama models to answer questions and retain knowledge for later conversations.

sqlite-vec adds vector storage and search to SQLite for developers building local AI apps or other software that uses embeddings. It keeps vectors and related application data in the same database.

Kimi Code CLI is a locally installed AI coding agent for developers who want an agent to work directly on their projects. File edits and shell commands run on your computer; its default Kimi connection sends model requests to Moonshot AI's hosted API. That connection needs internet access and Kimi Code OAuth or an API key.

Mercury Agent is a personal AI agent for people who want ongoing help with coding, research and routine tasks. It keeps context between conversations and can continue working in the background after you close the terminal.

rizzo-pii replaces personal information in Italian legal text with placeholders before you share it with an AI service. It's built for law firms, accountants and notaries who need to work with sensitive documents.

UFO³ is a self-hosted AI agent framework for developers and researchers automating tasks across Windows, Linux and Android devices. Its Galaxy coordinator splits a request into connected tasks, assigns them to suitable devices and tracks work that depends on results from another machine. The Python project is open source under the MIT license.

Archestra Community Edition is a self-hosted AI platform for teams managing access to company tools and models. It gives coding assistants, internal agents, and staff chat a shared place to enforce policies and track activity.

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.

Browser4 is a browser automation engine for developers building AI agents, web research tools, and data collection workflows. It controls real Chrome browsers and handles interactive pages that require clicks, forms, or JavaScript before their data is accessible.

RAG-Anything is a Python framework for developers building question-answering systems over documents that mix prose with visual or structured content. Built on LightRAG, it suits research papers, technical manuals and financial reports where answers depend on figures, tables or formulas.

DaVinci Resolve Studio is a paid desktop video editor for macOS, Windows and Linux that combines editing, color grading, visual effects and audio post production. It's for editors, colorists and studios who want AI tools within the same application they use to finish a film or video.

RamaLama runs AI models for local chat or a self-hosted REST API. It's for developers who want a container workflow for trying models on their own hardware and serving them in production.

Ollama Grid Search helps developers compare model responses before choosing a model and prompt for a task. It runs experiments across combinations of models, prompts and inference settings, then presents the results for visual review.

Natively is a desktop assistant for people who want suggested answers during meetings or interviews and searchable notes afterward. It works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams without adding a bot to the call.

VoiceFlow is a dictation app and meeting recorder for developers and anyone who wants to turn speech into text without cloud transcription. It inserts dictated words into text fields across your computer and transcribes recorded calls locally.

agent-worktree is a command-line tool for developers running AI coding agents on parallel tasks in one repository. Each task gets a separate Git working directory so agents can work without sharing the same files.

Clawk gives coding agents a disposable Linux VM for installing packages, running builds and starting services locally. It's for developers who want an agent to control its working environment while keeping unshared host files and the host keychain outside the guest.

GoModel is a self-hosted AI gateway for developers and platform teams sharing access to local models and cloud providers. It centralizes provider choice and usage policies behind APIs compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs.

Screenpipe records computer activity so people can revisit past work and give AI agents context from screens and conversations. Capture history stays on your device by default.

Milvus is a vector database for developers building AI retrieval, image search and other applications that find related content. It stores embeddings alongside metadata for searching text, images and multimodal information.

Claudeck is a self-hosted browser workspace for developers who want to manage Claude Code conversations and coding tasks together. It combines ongoing chats with agent workflows and repository tools.

The AI Scientist is a self-hosted AI agent for researchers studying questions they can test through code. It generates research ideas, runs experiments, produces plots and writes scientific papers. Its scope is computational research.

InterpretML is an open-source Python library for data scientists who need to explain machine learning predictions or build models whose decisions they can inspect directly. It runs locally on Windows, macOS and Linux under the MIT license. Its tools support model debugging and checks for potential bias, including work in healthcare and finance.

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.

Civitai is a platform for creators to share AI image models, browse other people's work and exchange feedback. You can self-host its model-sharing platform, but image generation and training don't work in the local setup.